June 23 to July 3, 2025 | Palaiseau, France
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee
9:30 - 10:00 Welcome and Onboarding
10:00 - 11:30 Introduction to Text Analysis
11:30 - 12:30 Python Application
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 Discovering Embeddings
15:30 - 16:30 Python Application 1 and 2
17:15 - 18:30 Guest Talk by Eunji Kim: “How social media creators shape mass politics: A field experiment during the 2024 US election”
9:30 - 10:30 Group Projects
10:30 - 12:30 Enter Neural Networks
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Introduction to Transformers
14:30 - 15:30 Regular Expressions
17:15 - 18:30 Guest Talk by Jan G. Voelkel: “Solution-Oriented Computational Social Science: The Case of Political Polarization”
10:00 - 11:30 BERT: Principles, Uses, Fine-tuning Tricks
11:30 - 12:00 Finding Models on Hugging Face
12:00 - 13:00 BERT Python Application
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Introduction to Active Tigger
10:00 - 12:00 Introduction to Text Analysis in the Era of GPT
12:00 - 13:00 Python Application: API Access, Structured Outputs
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Python Application: Annotation Zero-shot, Few-shot
15:30 - 17:00 Python Application: Information Extraction
9:30 - 10:30 Project and Data Management
10:30 - 12:30 Group projects
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Afternoon: LLMs and Social Sciences - International Roundtable with Bart Bonikowski (NYU), Matthew Connelly (Columbia), and scholars from CREST-IPP, Medialab and Paris-1. Registration (mandatory) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhXENE6Pm9HbSRlyuX2cSi8jiDz4xll7jOju1IIrGGFf05Bw/viewform.
Time: 14:00-18:30
Location: Goguel Amphitheater, 27 rue Saint Guillaume 75007 Paris.
Remote Group Work
14:00 Guest Talks by Noga Keidar and Daniel Silver
Remote Group Work
13:00 Guest Talk by Dirk Hovy: “From Words to Culture: Unleashing NLP for Social Science Insights”
Remote Group Work
15:30 Guest Talk by Austin van Loon: “The Use of LLMs in Social Science Experiments”
All day – Final Group Presentations
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.