SICSS-Paris

9:00 - 9:30 Coffee

9:30 - 10:00 Welcome and Onboarding

10:00 - 11:30 Introduction to Text Analysis

11:30 - 12:30 Python Application

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30 Discovering Embeddings

15:30 - 16:30 Python Application 1 and 2

17:15 - 18:30 Guest Talk by Eunji Kim: “How social media creators shape mass politics: A field experiment during the 2024 US election”

9:30 - 10:30 Group Projects

10:30 - 12:30 Enter Neural Networks

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Introduction to Transformers

14:30 - 15:30 Regular Expressions

17:15 - 18:30 Guest Talk by Jan G. Voelkel: “Solution-Oriented Computational Social Science: The Case of Political Polarization”

10:00 - 11:30 BERT: Principles, Uses, Fine-tuning Tricks

11:30 - 12:00 Finding Models on Hugging Face

12:00 - 13:00 BERT Python Application

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 17:00 Introduction to Active Tigger

10:00 - 12:00 Introduction to Text Analysis in the Era of GPT

12:00 - 13:00 Python Application: API Access, Structured Outputs

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Python Application: Annotation Zero-shot, Few-shot

15:30 - 17:00 Python Application: Information Extraction

9:30 - 10:30 Project and Data Management

10:30 - 12:30 Group projects

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Afternoon: LLMs and Social Sciences - International Roundtable with Bart Bonikowski (NYU), Matthew Connelly (Columbia), and scholars from CREST-IPP, Medialab and Paris-1. Registration (mandatory) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhXENE6Pm9HbSRlyuX2cSi8jiDz4xll7jOju1IIrGGFf05Bw/viewform.

Time: 14:00-18:30

Location: Goguel Amphitheater, 27 rue Saint Guillaume 75007 Paris.

Remote Group Work

14:00 Guest Talks by Noga Keidar and Daniel Silver

Remote Group Work

13:00 Guest Talk by Dirk Hovy: “From Words to Culture: Unleashing NLP for Social Science Insights”

Remote Group Work

15:30 Guest Talk by Austin van Loon: “The Use of LLMs in Social Science Experiments”

All day – Final Group Presentations