Introduction to Sentiment Analysis: Potentials and limitations
In this workshop, participants will take part in exercises to explore one of the most used Natural Language Processing techniques in the field of Digital Humanities. We are going to cover the history of Sentiment Analysis, how it has changed over time, how it can be applied to research in the humanities & social sciences and more importantly, what its potentials as well as its limitations are.
The workshop targets especially researchers and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences with special interest in automated text analysis. Knowledge of coding is not a prerequisite. As an introductory course, it will use code but the focus is instead on the critical analysis of the method and its usability.
The workshop will take place on July 10, from 10 A.M. until 1 P.M. and will be fully online via zoom.
Facilitators:
- Caio Mello
Caio Mello is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies, where he conducts research on sentiment analysis applied to news articles. He is also a PhD candidate at the School of Advanced Study (University of London) in Digital Humanities. - Dr. Gaurish Thakkar
Gaurish Thakkar is a research fellow at the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), where he works on cross-lingual sentiment analysis for under-resourced languages. - Dr. Johannes Breuer
Dr. Breuer is a senior researcher in the team Survey Data Augmentation at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (Department Survey Data Curation) in Cologne, Germany, and (co-)leads the team Research Data & Methods at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS).