1st Annual POLTEXT Conference 2018
– Budapest, May 9-11, 2018
- Organizing committee leader: Miklós Sebők
- Members of the organizing committee: Zsolt Boda, Zsolt Ződi
- The conference call is available here.
- The conference program is available here.
- Information on the sponsors of the conference is available here.
- Photo album available here
PolText Incubator Workshop Program
Workshop on the Text Mining of Political and Legal Texts
May 10th-11th, 2018
Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
PANELS
THURSDAY, 10 May
1:00-2:30pm
Methods 1 (Room 11-12)
Chair: Oul Han
Discussant: Alexander Baturo
Max Boiten et al. Validating the Joint Sentiment Topic Model and the Reversed Joint Sentiment Topic Model on Political Text
Imre Kilián The Outline of a Text Mining Platform Based on Syntactic and Semantic Indexing
Sanja Hajdinjak Understanding Corruption Through Unsupervised Machine Learning of the Media Content
Media 1 (Room 13-14)
Chair: Zoltán Fazekas
Discussant: Márton Gerő
Andreas Dür – Lisa Lechner Who wins and who loses from trade agreements? Stock market
reactions to news on TTIP and TPP
Mariken van der Velden Don’t You Like It? Using CrowdSourcing for Sentiment Analysis of Dutch and English Political Text
2:45-4:15pm
Methods 2 (Room 11-12)
Chair: Nicolas Merz
Discussant: Caroline Le Pennec
Zachary Greene – Maarja Lühiste Reporting on Diversity? Using Topic Models to Measure Media
Coverage of the Content of Parties’ Campaign Messages
István Boros et al. Text Network Analysis – A Bag of Words Model
Media 2 (Room 13-14)
Chair: Shaun Bevan
Discussant: Mariken van der Velden
Oul Han Weak Party Institutions and Partisan Arguments in a Polarized Young Democracy: The Case of South Korean Twitter
Gergely Morvay et al. Gender bias in Hungarian political discourse
Camilo Cristancho Emotional dynamics during the Catalan independence demonstrations and counter-demonstrations 2017
4:30-6:00pm
Legal 1 (Room 11-12)
Chair: Zsolt Ződi
Discussant: Kakia Chatsiou
Philipp Meyer Dissemination of legal information: Structure and Topics of Online Available Court Decisions
Veronika Vincze Linguistic Uncertainty in Legal Documents
Political 1 (Room 13-14)
Chair: Miklós Sebők
Discussant: Jonathan Lewis
David Hagmann When Experts Debate: Persuasion In The Field
Roy Gava et al. Legislating or Rubber-Stamping? The Impact of Parliament on Law-Making
FRIDAY, 11 MAY
9:00-10:30am
Political 2 (Room 11-12)
Chair: Zsolt Boda
Discussant: Roy Gava
Caroline Le Pennec – Paul Vertier Ideological Convergence in Two-Round Elections: Evidence from Candidates’ Manifestos in French Legislative Elections
Nicolas Merz Party Policy Plagiarism: Do Parties Copy-Paste?
Theresa Gessler Taking Issue with Politics: Do New Parties Contribute to the Spread of Contention around Democratic Institutions?
Media 3 (Room 13-14)
Chair: Camilo Cristancho
Discussant: Verena Kunz
Valentin Gold Finding Compromise: The Antecedents of Debate Quality in the German Mediation Committee
Márton Gerő – Pál
Susánszky A Network Based Method of Frame Analysing of Political Speeches
10:45-12:15pm
International 1 (Room 11-12)
Chair: Zoltán Fazekas
Discussant: Lisa Lechner
Alexander Baturo et al. Rivalry Articulation: US-Russian Diplomatic Statements in the United Nations General Debate
Kakia Chatsiou – Juan Telleira UNDP Human Development Reports Corpus: Lessons, Challenges, Opportunities
Discourse 1 (Room 13-14)
Chair: Zachary Greene
Discussant: Daniele Guariso
Kazuhiro Obayashi How Legislatures Discuss Violent Conflicts: The Case of Nigeria
István János Tóth – Zsanna Nyírő The Impact of Russia’s State-Run Propaganda Apparatus on the
Hungarian media (2010-2017)
Virág Ilyés et al. The Nation in American Political Discourse. An Attempt to Train an Automatic Metaphor Identifier.
12:30-2:00pm
International 2 (Room 11-12)
Chair: David Hagmann
Discussant: Kristin Makszin
Daniele Guariso Terrorist Attacks and Immigration Rhetoric: A Natural Experiment on British MPs
Kristin Makszin Fallen from grace: Increased rating scrutiny over domestic politics in developed democracies since the financial crisis
Martin Mölder – Eiki Berg Using Topic Modelling for the Analysis of Foreign Policy Discourse: Looking into Russian-Western Relations
Discourse 2 (Room 13-14)
Chair: Valentin Gold
Discussant: Virág Ilyés
Verena Kunz Position Blurring as a Response to Competing Principals?Assessing Speech Clarity in the European Parliament
Adela Fofiu – Raluca Igreț An institutional vocabulary for sustainability. The computational approach
István Üveges – Veronika Vincze Are Hungarian General Terms and Conditons Easy to Comprehend? A Computational Linguistics Analysis