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
17:15 - 18:30 Guest Talk by Eunji Kim
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
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
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
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
Remote Group Work
14:00 Guest Talks by Noga Keidar and Daniel Silver
Remote Group Work
13:00 Guest Talk by Dirk Hovy
Remote Group Work
15:30 Guest Talk by Austin van Loon
All day – Final Group Presentations
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