Christopher Klamm 🌱

Very excited to announce the next term of the TADA speaker series!

This term revolves around the validity of LLM generated data in the Social Sciences. We have a set of four great speakers to enlighten us on different aspects of this issue.

If you'd like to join, sign up here: TADA.cool

Mark your calendars! 🚨 We look forward to @cc-tp.bsky.social joining us for the last talk before the ☀️ break! Next Wednesday, May 28, at 17:00 (CEST) she will talk about detecting gender biased norms in political speech. More details on the #TaDa Speaker Series & how to join the talk ⬇️

🚨 Just a month until the CPSS deadline (June 13, AoE). Super excited for the upcoming round and can’t wait to see your submissions ✨

Deadline extension! By the 10th of May submit an abstract and join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods" workshop at #ICWSM

🕔 We're excited to start in just 30 minutes (5pm Berlin time). Come join us for a fascinating talk by @taniseceron.bsky.social on "Evaluating Political Bias: Insights into Robustness and Multilinguality". We can’t wait to see many of you there ⬇️

Curious about mastering text analysis using computational methods? 🧑‍💻📊 This summer, I’m teaching an introductory course at the @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna. Would be nice to see you there!

I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️

Fantastic first day at #COMPTEXT2025. Really enjoyed spreading the word about efficient LLMs 🌱✨🦙 in our workshop (w/ Julia Romberg) today. Many thanks to everyone who joined us 💚. Excited for more packed conference days ahead 🚀

🔜 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 will also be in Albuquerque at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 (@NAACL) next week. If you’re around, say hi to Quirin who will be there and check out our latest work (May 4, 09:00-17:30) ⬇️

AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers
arxiv.org/abs/2410.01824

Now accepted at LaTeCH-CLfL2025 🥳✨

🧵 on our experimental and multi-modul follow-up project below

🥁 It's the second half of our 🌱 speaker series (tada.cool) this term, and we couldn't be more excited! Next week (Wednesday, April 30 at 5pm CET), we have the pleasure of welcoming @taniseceron.bsky.social to share insights on "Facilitating Information Access Through Language Models". More details ⬇️

🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...

🚀 Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a course on "Large Language Models - Tune and Train Your Own Models" @methodsnet.bsky.social in Vienna from July 14-18 🤖💡 If you’re interested in adjusting LLMs for your tasks, this is for you. Can’t wait for an exciting week.

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

TADA RG TADA ✨ Initiative

The TADA Speaker Series is thrilled to welcome @prashantgarg.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk to present his research on causal claims in economics!

🎙 Prashant Garg: Causal Claims in Economics
📅 March 19, 2025 | 🕔 17:00 Berlin Time
🔗 Subscribe for details: tada.cool

See you next week!

The flyer shows the overview of the programme for the Text-as-Data Spring Term Speaker Series 2025, which usually takes place on Wednesdays at 5pm Berlin time.

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal.

Deadline January 31st!

#NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics

I had a great time at the Spring School last year! I learned a bunch and met many great young researchers during my stay @cklamm.bsky.social @winstonlee.bsky.social @lukasrae.bsky.social @cwinkler.bsky.social And all of that in a scenic location!

📣Reminder: 7 more days to apply to our 'Methods of Political Science' Conference in Mannheim in March 2025.📣

sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me...

#polisky

🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight
Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x

Super excited for the next talk (Wed 27.11. 5pm Berlin time 🕔) in our speaker series by Caterina Chiopris. Can't wait to see many of you there 😊 ⬇️

🚀 Start of the first @kodaqs.bsky.social Data Quality Academy. GESIS, LMU, and UMannheim are building an essential space for institutionalizing data quality 📚🔎 in social science research. Happy to be a part of the first round of researchers in this format.

I'm very excited for this conference we're organising with the dvpw methods section. 🎉
Plus: there'll be a conference dinner and travel stipends are available.

More info & links for application 👇

My book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” has recently come out in the US.

If you're interested, in this thread I’ll link different ways of learning about the book and its argument (I’ll keep adding if more come out).

First, here is the link to the book: academic.oup.com/book/57946

Just launched a Political Comm/NLP/Text-as-Data Starter Pack. 🦋🤗

Join us and/or drop a message to be added!

go.bsky.app/39MWTjg #starterpack #polsci

🌟 We can't wait for our upcoming talk. Join us next Wednesday at 5pm(CET) for a talk by
@humeyra.bsky.social on "Political Speech as a Forecasting Tool for Democratic Backsliding". Find more details below ⬇️

Really cool to see our study online. Amazing interdisciplinary teamwork ✨ w/ @kunkakom.bsky.social, Matthias Aßenmacher, Max M Lang, Quirin Würschinger and Frauke Kreuter. Check out the fantastic summary by @kunkakom.bsky.social for more details ⬇️

📣 We are excited to announce that the tada.cool ✨ series is back w/ an incredible lineup for this 🍁 ❄️ term w/ @lexipalmer.bsky.social,
@humeyra.bsky.social,
@mlburnham.bsky.social, Caterina Chiopris & Tobias Hofmann ⬇️

The image shows the invitation for the next talk of the TaDa Reading Group by Jens Wäckerle, titled Undermining the Parliamentary Patriarchy: Women, Political Speech, and Power around the World. It takes place on Wednesday, June 5 at 17:00 Berlin time.

Next Wednesday (📅 June 5) at 17:00, the last Text-as-Data Speaker Series talk for this spring term will take place feat.
@jwaeckerle.bsky.social! Join us to learn more about the genderedness of parliamentary discourse and legislative power in a comparative perspective 🌟

🎉 Join us this Wednesday at 🕒 3 pm CEST for a tada.cool talk on "How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data" by the amazing @ankuepfer.bsky.social ⬇️