SICSS-Paris

June 23 to July 3, 2025 | Palaiseau, France

Schedule & Materials

Monday June 23, 2025
  • 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

  • 17:15 - 18:30 Guest Talk by Eunji Kim

Tuesday June 24, 2025
  • 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

Wednesday June 25, 2025
  • 9:30 - 11:00 BERT: Principles, Uses, Fine-tuning Tricks

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Finding Models on Hugging Face

  • 11:30 - 12:30 Python Application

  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

  • 13:30 - 16:30 Introduction to Active Tigger

Thursday June 26, 2025
  • 9:30 - 11:30 Introduction to Text Analysis in the Era of GPT

  • 11:30 - 12:30 Python Application: API Access, Structured Outputs

  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Python Application: Annotation Zero-shot, Few-shot

  • 15:00 - 16:30 Python Application: Information Extraction

Friday June 27, 2025
  • 9:30 - 10:30 BERT: 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

Monday June 30, 2025
Tuesday July 1, 2025
  • Remote Group Work

  • 13:00 Guest Talk by Dirk Hovy

Wednesday July 2, 2025
Thursday July 3, 2025
  • All day – Final Group Presentations

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