Last October I had the great opportunity to come and give a talk at the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas, UAEM, México. The main audience were students of the qualitative analysis methods course, but there were people also from informatics and systems engineering.
It was an opportunity to showcase some of the advances that natural language processing offers to social scientists interested in analysing discourse, from politics through to social interactions.
The talk covered a introduction and brief history of the field. We went through the different stages of the analysis, from reading the data, obtaining tokens and labelling their part of speech (POS) and then looking at syntactic and semantic analysis.
We finished the session with a couple of demos. One looking at speeches of Clinton and Trump during their presidential campaigns; the other one was a simple analysis of a novel in Spanish.
Thanks for the invite.
