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  • Journalism and AI, a Workshop at l’ESJ-Lille

    Journalism and AI, a Workshop at l’ESJ-Lille

    On Friday, November 17th, Etienne, Emma & Rubing organized a work session at l’Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille. The workshop was part of a […]

  • NLP & Social Sciences Seminar 2023 – Program

    NLP & Social Sciences Seminar 2023 – Program

    The NLP & Social Sciences Seminar meets regularly throughout the semester. The sessions where we welcome external speakers are open to the public (via Zoom; […]

  • Tutorial: The Augmented Social Scientist

    Tutorial: The Augmented Social Scientist

    Presentation at IC2S2 in Copenhagen, July 2023 Based on a paper recently published in Sociological Methods and Research that demonstrated how an expert could train […]

  • Textual Politics: International Workshop

    Textual Politics: International Workshop

    For two days, on March 9th and 10th, 2023, Sciences Po Medialab and the CSS initiative at l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris organized a two-days workshop in Paris. The conference brought together scholars involved in two international research projects.

  • Using Whisper to Transcribe Oral Interviews

    Using Whisper to Transcribe Oral Interviews

    Recorded interviews are a classic element in the social scientific toolbox. And while the transcription process can often be serendipitous, it is also notoriously tedious work. This tutorial introduces a free tool to transcribe interviews fairly quickly and with remarkable quality, even in such “noisy” scenes.

  • [Publication] The Augmented Social Scientist

    [Publication] The Augmented Social Scientist

    In an article for Sociological Methods and Research, Salomé Do, Étienne Ollion and Rubing Shen show how social scientists can leverage recent advances in natural […]

  • Chris Bail – “A New paradigm for Research on Social Media”

    Chris Bail – “A New paradigm for Research on Social Media”

    Chris Bail, Duke Professor & Director of the Polarization Lab, came for a special seminar on his new paradigm for resarch in social media. The […]

  • SICSS Paris 2023

    SICSS Paris 2023

    From June 19 to June 30, 2023, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris-CREST will sponsor a Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences. The purpose of the […]