Workshop: Automating Representative Claims Analysis
| From: | Th 23-01-2025 |
| Until: | Fr 24-01-2025 |
| Where: | House of Connections, Grote Markt 21, Groningen |
ARCA brings together political and computational social scientists from the University of Groningen and the University of Oldenburg to expand the research frontier on political representation.
Politicians, activists and others make representative political claims all the time. They demand or criticize certain policies on behalf of a larger societal group. Taken together, these claims construct the political debate and the landscape of who represents whom. Analysts have therefore taken up the challenge of analyzing representative claims, but this is a very time consuming, labor intensive method.
Can new technologies - specifically large language models and AI - be leveraged to automate this analysis? If so, how and to what extent? This workshop brings together scholars in political science and computational social science from the University of Groningen and the University of Oldenburg to explore the potential of scaling up representative claims analysis and to expand the frontier in mapping the discursive construction of political representation in the public sphere together.
Programme
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23 January - Grey Room, House of Connections |
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13.00 – 13.30 |
Welcome & Introduction |
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13.30 – 14.15 |
Automating Representative Claims Analysis: Why bother? |
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14.15 – 15.00 |
Towards a Large Scale Analysis of Claims |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
Break |
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15.30 – 17.00 |
Roundtable on Challenges and Possibilities |
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18.30 |
Workshop Dinner
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24 January - Grey Room, House of Connections |
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09.00 – 10.00 |
Break-out Brainstorm - 1 Team A: Stefan Couperus, Christina Dahn and August De Mulder |
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10.00 – 10.30 |
Presentations |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Break |
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11.00 – 12.00 |
Break-out Brainstorm - 2 Team A: Stefan Couperus and Darius Ribbe |
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12.00 – 12.30 |
Presentations |
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12.30 – 13.00 |
Conclusions |