5th Annual Text as Data Conference
October 10-11, 2014
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Wieboldt Hall
339 E. Chicago Avenue, Room 348
Chicago, IL 60611
SCHEDULE
Friday, October 10, 2014
All sessions to be held in Room 348
7:15 – 8:15am Continental Breakfast - Room 362
8:15 – 8:30am Welcome from Daniel Diermeier, Conference Chair
8:30 – 10:00am Session 1: Where Politicians Lie (in ideological space)
Discussant: Paul Kellstedt, Texas A&M
10:00 – 10:15am Break - Room 362
10:15 – 11:45am Session 2: True Lies: Propaganda and Politics
Molly Roberts, UC - San Diego - "What the 'Big' Picture Reveals About Governments: Scalable Text Analysis of Millions of Newspapers in China" Co-author: Brandon Stewart, Harvard University
Discussant: Amber Boydstun, University of California, Davis
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch - Room 540
1:00 – 2:30pm Session 3: Use and Reuse and Reuse
David Smith, Northeastern University - "Modeling Text Reuse for Inferring Social and Communication Networks"
Discussant: Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
2:30 – 2:45 pm Break - Room 362
2:45 – 4:15pm Session 4: (Ir)rational Expectations
Justin Farrell, Yale University- "The Social Structure of Skepticism: A Text Analysis of Climate Denial Networks"
Discussant: Ken Benoit, London School of Economics
4:15 – 4:30pm Break - Room 362
4:30 – 6:00pm Session 5: Tools Panel I
Nick Beauchamp, Northeastern University - "A Spatial Topic Model for Visualizing Single Documents". (Paper available upon request from Conference attendees to Peggy Cornog)
Drew Dimmery, New York University - "An Anchored Approach to Analyzing Policy Positions from Text". Co-authors: Andrew Peterson and Cyrus Samii, New York University
6:00 – 7:00pm Reception - Room 540
7:00 – 9:00pm Dinner - Wieboldt Hall - Room 540
Saturday, October 11, 2014
8:00 – 9:00am Breakfast - Room 362
9:00 – 10:30am Session 6: Legal Niceties
Hanna Wallach, Microsoft Research & University of Masachusetts, Amherst - "The Bayesian Echo Chamber: Modeling Power and Influence with Mutually Exciting Processes and Dynamic Language Models". Co-authors: Katherine Heller, Fangjian Guo, Duke University; Charles Blundell, Google
Discussant: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
10:30 – 10:45am Break - Room 362
10:45 – 12:15pm Session 7: Feeling and Believing: Learning from Congressional Behavior
Discussant: Marc Ratkovic, Princeton University
12:15 – 1:30pm Lunch - Room 362
1:30 – 3:00pm Session 8: Relationship Advice
Discussant: Maurits Van Der Veen, College of William & Mary
3:00 – 3:15pm Break - Room 362
3:15 – 4:45 pm Session 9: Tools Panel II
Bradley Jones, University of Wisconsin, Madison - "Crowd-sourced Content Analysis: Using untrained human coders to supplement machine-processing large bodies of text"
4:45 – 5:00pm Closing remarks