Symposium on ‘Computational Text Analysis and Historical Change’

Welcome to the symposium “Computational Text Analysis and Historical Change” on September 4–6 at Humlab (Umeå University). The starting point of this interdisciplinary event is as follows: Considering the possibility to process large amounts of text data through methods such as probabilistic topic models or word embeddings, how can historical transformations of media, culture and society be empirically measured in novel ways? We hope that you will join us in exploring answers to this questions. 

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