LEAP workshop

Please see details below for our second LEAP workshop of the quarter, which will take place tomorrow (12 April) at 11 am on Zoom and in Social Science Research Building 302. Zejian Lyu (MACSS student, UChicago) will be giving a talk entitled, Connecting the Language Computed and Text Collected, a glance at the usage of computational content analysis in social language study.

• Title: Connecting the Language Computed and Text Collected, a glance at the usage of computational content analysis in social language study

• Abstract: Computational content analysis forms a highly potential yet unexplored method for the social study of language. Although there are quite a lot of projects and papers that leverage this method and make remarkable explorations, this newly emerging and somehow alienated method is far from mature. The general group of researchers lacks an understanding of what it can do, what it can’t, and what should be done in the seeable future. In attempting to address this topic, my presentation will provide a glance at the possible directions of leveraging computational content analysis, drawing on examples from my current projects and recent remarkable publications. I tend to dive into how these methods are configured (in a comprehensible way) and how they could be adjusted for a few practical or theoretical needs illustrated. What’s more, I would also like to articulate my own understanding of these methods and pose hints on how we could enlarge our imagination on research projects with the possibilities brought by these methods.