The breath of the Blogosphere. LINIS Seminar in Moscow
On April 24, 2012, the LINIS team conducted the seminar "The breath of the Blogosphere? Methods for Analysing Big Internet Data Corpora for Sociological Tasks". The talk took place as a part of the academic seminar on sociological theory and methodology, organized by the HSE’s Analysis of Social Institutions Department (headed by Inna Deviatko) together with the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology (headed by Vadim Radaev), Moscow.
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Olessia Koltsova, head of LINIS, described methods developed in the Lab for the collection and automated analysis of posts and comments in LiveJournal. The tasks where these methods are applied include determining a blog’s topical structure, the structure of discussions, and then social tensions and prerequisites for social mobilization.
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Olessia Koltsova and Kirill Maslinsky spoke on the application of cluster analysis algorithms to large text corpora and algorithms to identify topics (for example, LDA with Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox). Julia Pavlova’s presentation on the problems of determining emotional tensions around topics (using sentiment analysis methods with SentiStrength software) concluded the seminar.
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Materials and video from the seminar can be found in the "Materials" section.