Where text-as-data meets the social sciences
A free online speaker series for researchers who apply NLP, machine learning and computational text analysis to political science, sociology, communication science and neighbouring fields. Every second Wednesday at 17:00 Berlin time: a 20–30-minute talk, followed by Q&A.
Fall 2026 · AI Tools for Social Scientists
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74 sessions and counting
Organizers
Four researchers at four institutions, volunteering their time to keep the series free and open.
Nicolai Berk
Computational social sciencePostdoc · ETH ZurichPublic Policy Group and Immigration Policy Lab; media, migration and text-as-data.
Christopher Klamm
NLP & political textPhD candidate · University of MannheimData and Web Science Group; language models for political communication.
Verena Kunz
Computational social sciencePostdoc · GESISLeibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim.
Clint Claessen
Legislative studies & text-as-dataPostdoc · University of FreiburgDepartment of Political Science; representation, political careers and machine learning.