Workshop

The annual autumn workshop was first organized in October 2011 by the Language Bank in Gothenburg - now Språkbanken Text. Since 2018, the event has been organized by the National Language Bank. The workshop is an inspiring day about language technology and is primarily aimed at researchers who use linguistic material and who can benefit from digital tools to explore them.

This Year’s Autumn Workshop: Digital Social Sciences

The 2024 Autumn Workshop has the theme of Digital Social Science and will take place in Uppsala on Thursday, October 24. The workshop is a hybrid event, held in Uppsala and via Zoom.

Throughout the day, you will have the opportunity to engage with various presentations showcasing how the National Language Bank is conducting research in digital social sciences, as well as exploring related initiatives.

Time: 1 PM - 5 PM. Location: Room IV, University Main Building, or via Zoom. A link will be provided upon registration.

Please register here.

Workshop Program

1:00 PM – 1:20 PM Welcome (Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, and Lars Borin, Director of the National Language Bank, National Coordinator for Swe-Clarin)

1:20 PM – 2:00 PM The Swedish Parliamentary Proceedings 1867–2023: A Research Corpus (Måns Magnusson, Uppsala University)

2:00 PM – 2:40 PM SweCSS: The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University)

2:40 PM – 3:10 PM Coffee

3:10 PM – 3:40 PM What Does a Picture Say with a Thousand Words? Visualization of Texts on Climate Change (Maria Skeppstedt and Magnus Ahltorp, Språkbanken Sam)

3:40 PM – 4:10 PM Preparations for the Automatic Transcription of 50 Years of Parliamentary Speech Recordings (Jim O'Regan, Språkbanken Tal. Presentation in English)

4:10 PM – 4:40 PM Reflections on the Project "Rumor Mining": On How Vaccine-Related Rumors Arise and Spread on Social Media, with a Focus on the Language Technology Analysis (Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Språkbanken Text)

4:40 PM – 5:00 PM Conclusion/Discussion (Sara Stymne)

5:00 PM – Mingle