Keep rollin'! The abilities for monitoring growing corpora using RollingLDA

Jonas Rieger (TU Dortmund / Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), Hamburg) zeigt in seinem englischsprachigen Vortrag die Vorteile einer Modellierung wachsender Textkorpora mittels RollingLDA.

In this talk Jonas Rieger will show the advantages of modeling growing text corpora using RollingLDA and present some example applications, e.g., the uncertainty perception and inflation perception indicators, PsychTopics as well as various change detection and monitoring scenarios. Jonas Rieger is Postdoc at TU Dortmund University (Chair of Business and Social Statistics, Department of Statistics) and at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in Hamburg. He completed his degree in Statistics in Dortmund in 2016 and worked as a doctoral student and research associate at the chair of Business and Social Statistics at TU Dortmund University until September 2022. His research interests are mainly focused on topic models. They cover the evaluation, model selection and parameter tuning as well as update algorithms for topic models. Besides, he is interested in the identification of changes, events, and narratives in corpora, the exploitation of specific corpora for indices, and content analyses of political text data.