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Introduction to Supervised Text Classification in R workshop

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Learn how to use supervised text classification in R! Join our workshop on Introduction to Supervised Text Classification in R which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series. 


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Title: Introduction to Supervised Text Classification in R


Date: Thursday, July 13th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)


Speaker: Marius Sältzer is a Professor of Digital Social Science at the University of Oldenburg. He works on party competition and political communication, in particular on social media, using large-scale data collection and text analysis methods.


Description: Text analysis is a staple method in the social sciences and is increasingly influencing other areas in times of large language models. while transformers are very effective they are computationally expensive and lack intepretability. This course introduces supervised machine learning on textual data, including theoretical foundations of human annotation, distributional semantics and word embeddings. Based on quanteda, we apply text classification like Naïve Bayes and Neural Networks in R on a CPU-only laptop.


Minimal registration fee: 20 euro (or 20 USD or 800 UAH)



How can I register?





If you are not personally interested in attending, you can also contribute by sponsoring a participation of a student, who will then be able to participate for free. If you choose to sponsor a student, all proceeds will also go directly to organisations working in Ukraine. You can either sponsor a particular student or you can leave it up to us so that we can allocate the sponsored place to students who have signed up for the waiting list.


How can I sponsor a student?





If you are a university student and cannot afford the registration fee, you can also sign up for the waiting list here. (Note that you are not guaranteed to participate by signing up for the waiting list).



You can also find more information about this workshop series,  a schedule of our future workshops as well as a list of our past workshops which you can get the recordings & materials here.


Looking forward to seeing you during the workshop!















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