SODAS Data Discussion 26 November 2021

Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) aspirers to be a resource for all students and researchers at the Faculty of Social Sciences. We therefore invite researchers across the faculty to present ongoing research projects, project applications or just a loose idea that relates to the subject of social data science.

The rules are simple: short research presentations of ten minutes are followed by twenty minutes of debate. No papers will be circulated beforehand, and the presentations cannot be longer than five slides.

Authors:
Anna Rogers, PostDoc (SODAS) and Germans Savcisens, PhD fellow (DTU/SODAS)

Title:
Life2vec: what Transformers can learn about us from government statistics

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Author:
August Lohse

Title:
Mapping intra governmental conflict using document embeddings

Abstract:
In this data discussion I expand on recent advances in using word and document embeddings for estimating latent ideological representations in parliamentary corpora. Using the transcripts of the Danish parliament, I examine how it is possible to gauge conflict in both the opposition and government in a multiparty system, using low dimensional representations of the word embeddings. I likewise discuss some issues in working with parliamentary data, such as government/non-government language and different amount of documents.