2014 Text as Data Conference
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
REGISTRATION
Conference Organizer: Daniel Diermeier d-diermeier@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Conference Administrator: Peggy Cornog m-cornog@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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)
Benjamin Lauderdale, London School of Economics - "Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Debate Texts on Heterogenous Topics" Co-author: Alexander Herzog, Clemson University.
Jonathan Dunn, Illinois Institute of Technology - "Predicting Political Ideology from Congressional Speeches" Co-author: Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology
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
Michael Gill and Arthur Spirling, Harvard University - "Dimensions of Diplomacy: What the Wikileaks Cables can tell us about Information and Privacy in International Relations"
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"
Konstantin Kashin, Harvard University - "Capturing Business Power Across the States with Text Reuse" (Abstract only). Co-author: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Harvard University
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"
Pablo Barbera, New York University - "Economic Conditions, Economic Perceptions, and Media Coverage of the United States Economy" Co-authors: Amber Boydstun, University of California, Davis; Suzanna Linn, Penn State University; Jonathan Nagler, New York University
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
Yanchuan Sim, Carnegie Mellon University - "The Utility of Text: The Case of Amicus Briefs and the Supreme Court" Co-authors: Noah Smith, Bryan Routledge, Carnegie Mellon University
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
Adam Ramey, New York University, Abu Dhabi- "More Than a Feeling: Personality and Congressional Behavior" Co-authors: Jonathan Klingler, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; Gary Hollibaugh Jr., University of Notre Dame
Iulia Cioroianu, New York University - "Predicting Legislators' Votes on the Government Shutdown using Twitter" Co-authors: Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker, Duncan Penfold-Brown, Jonathan Ronen, Pablo Barbera, John Jost, Richard Bonneau, New York University
Discussant: Marc Ratkovic, Princeton University
12:15 – 1:30pm Lunch - Room 362
1:30 – 3:00pm Session 8: Relationship Advice
Aaron Gerow, University of Chicago - "Networks in Natural Language: Named Entity Co-occurences in Diachronic Corpora" Co-authors: Bowen Lou, University of Chicago; James Evans, University of Chicago
Justin Grimmer, Stanford University - "Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Governance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds" Co-authors: Lisa Blaydes and Alison McQueen, Stanford University
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"
Brendan O'Connor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst - "MITextExplorer: Linked brushing and mutual information for exploratory text data analysis"
4:45 – 5:00pm Closing remarks