• 2020/10/02
• Workshop Conference Poltext Comptext

Kenneth Benoit and Stefan Müller organized a three-day workshop on Quantitative Text Analysis using quanteda at the University of Bremen from 30 September to 2 October 2020. The workshop covered topics such as an quantitative text analysis and its workflow, an overview of quanteda and how to use it to create core objects, identifying key words based on statistical association measures, identifying multi-word expressions via collocation analysis, computing similarities and distances for clustering, feature weighting and feature selection for textual matrices, dictionary analysis, scaling and classification, and document scaling for measuring ideological positions.

• 2020/09/27
• Hackathon Video Presentation

At the Hackathon of Why R? 2020 Kenneth Benoit, Managing Director and Founder of the Quanteda Initiative, presented the quanteda package. You can watch the recording of his presentation “Why you should stop using other text mining packages and embrace quanteda” at https://youtu.be/9hEvGBu3cnI.

• 2020/06/25
• Workshop Event Video

On 23 June 2020, Kenneth Benoit, Managing Director and Founder of the Quanteda Initiative, presented the quanteda R package at LondonR. You can watch the recording of the virtual event at https://youtu.be/MxW0EfgD_wo.

• 2020/05/16
• Workshop Conference Poltext Comptext

Kenneth Benoit and Stefan Müller conducted a one-day tutorial on quantitative text analysis for absolute beginners at this year’s COMPTEXT conference. COMPTEXT is an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the application of natural language processing techniques to social science research. More details on the tutorial can be found here.

• 2019/12/12
• Workshop Conference Poltext Comptext

COMPTEXT is an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the application of natural language processing techniques to social science research. COMPTEXT was known as POLTEXT until last year and its second conference was organized by Kohei Watanabe (Chief Technology Officer and a Director of the Quanteda Initiative) in Tokyo. COMPTEXT 2020 will take place at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) organized by Lisa Lechner. Kohei is also contributing to the organization of the conference through the university’s Digital Science Center.

• 2019/01/08
• Workshop Conference Poltext

POLTEXT is an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the application of natural language processing techniques in social science research. The third POLTEXT conference, organized by Kohei Watanabe (Chief Technology Officer and a Director of the Quanteda Initiative) Miklós Sebők, and Lisa Lechner takes place at Waseda University (Tokyo) on 14-15 September 2019. The symposium aims to facilitate the knowledge exchange between social scientists and computer scientists who address social, political or economic issues through the analysis of textual data by employing quantitative methods.