3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)
22 September 2023 @ KONVENS (Ingolstadt)
This is the 3rd edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS). Our main goal is to bring together researchers and ideas from computational linguistics/NLP and the text-as-data community from political and social science, to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts between these communities.
🚨 Updated: Workshop proceedings (find all paper here 📚)
Invited talks
Lucie Flek, University of Marburg & Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology
Title: On "fixing" the framing: Is bias detection a pair-wise comparison task? [Slides]
Abstract: NLP techniques for framing analysis can shed new light on fundamental questions in social science research, helping to understand biases towards entities and concepts e.g. in educational textbooks, news media or social networks. In this talk, I will present our studies on discovering indoctrination frames in historical event descriptions, showcasing their validity for contemporary media studies. I will further discuss the case for perspectivist annotation schemes and its relevance for the social grounding of LLMs.
Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart
Title: Computational construction of discourse networks for political debates [Slides]
Abstract: Political debates form a crucial component of democratic decision processes and their structure and dynamics are highly interesting for political scientists. In this talk, I will present a series of interdisciplinary studies bringing together political scientists and NLP researchers with the goal of integrating manual and automatic approaches to constructing discourse networks. Topics include semi-automatic annotation, fairness, and hierarchical classification.
Organizers
Gabriella Lapesa is an interdisciplinary Computational Linguist working at the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the, currently leading the BMBF-funded independent research group E-DELIB, which works towards the development of NLP methods which would support deliberative discourse via (semi)automatic moderation.
Christopher Klamm is an interdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Mannheim. His research efforts and interests are in the areas of NLP and Computational Political Science, with a focus on automatic rhetoric and framing analysis.
Theresa Gessler is an Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Her research interests include the use of NLP methods to study political conflict around democracy, immigration and gender.
Valentin Gold is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Methods and Methodological Foundations in the Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen. He is currently coordinating the Deliberation Laboratory – an interdisciplinary project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation bringing together social science, computational linguistics and argument and ethos mining.
Simone Paolo Ponzetto holds the chair of Information Systems III (Enterprise Data Analysis) at the University of Mannheim, where he leads the Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval group. His research interests include research on text understanding and its interdisciplinary application in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Sponsorship
Our workshop received funding from the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL)
Program committee
Agnieszka Falenska
Dominik Stammbach
Ines Reinig
Indira Sen
Maximilian Splithöver
Manfred Stede
Ronja Sczepanski
Tornike Tsereteli
Valerie Hase
Marius Sältzer
Robert Huber
Tobias Widman
Christian Rauh
Lisa Zehnter
Moritz Osnabrügge
Eva Maria Vecchi
Call for papers (expired)
Potential topics
Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement)
Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources
Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods
Political and social bias in language models
Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices
NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making
Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research
... and more
Submission
You can submit your papers at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KONVENS2023/Track/4/Submission/Create
We solicit two types of submissions:
archival papers 🌿 describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published on the ACL anthology. For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS guidelines.
non-archival papers 🌳 (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing already published research or ongoing work
The two formats will meet the need of researchers from different communities, allowing the exchange of ideas in a "get to know each other" environment which we hope will foster future collaborations.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: June 24 2023 AOE
Notification of acceptance: July 20 AOE 2023
Camera ready 🌿 deadline (paper): July 28 AOE 2023 July 30 AOE 2023
(Optional) Updated abstracts 🌳 can be also uploaded via CMT
Workshop: 22 September 2023
If you have any questions or problems uploading your paper or abstract, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to help.
Additional information:
🌿 Paper submissions:
Please check the following instructions (and the KONVENS guidelines) before submitting your camera-ready paper version:
max 9 pages,
ACL 2023 template,
including "Limitations" and "Ethical Considerations" sections (which do not count towards the maximum page count),
updated literature (e.g., updated arxiv links if already published somewhere),
upload your additional materials (e.g., codebooks, data sheets, etc.)
🌳 Abstract submissions:
All accepted asbtracts will be presented as a poster (A0 [841 x 1189 mm or 33.1 x 46.8 inches] ) during a poster session.
You do not need to submit your poster in advance.
Please bring a printed version to the workshop.
(Optional) If you would like to update your abstract, please submit an updated version via CMT. At the end, we will share all abstracts with the particpations and on our website.
Previous editions of the workshop