Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited to the Institute’s seminar entitled “Challenges and opportunities in validating automated stance detection: The coverage of migration in Slovak media (2003-2024)”, presented by docent Andrej Findor from the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava. Doc. Findor will focus on methodological challenges and opportunities in using supervised machine learning and expert annotation validation to analyze media discourse on migration. The seminar will explore how different conceptualizations of stance and sentiment, multiplicity of evaluation targets, selection of analytical units, and annotator biases impact the automated detection of attitudes toward migration in Slovak media. The seminar will be in English
Please feel free to pass this information to your colleagues. The seminar will take place on 28.4.2025 at 14:00 in a hybrid format (UVSK + online).
If you are interested in online participation, please fill out this simple form: https://forms.gle/vz8zisWPaY16KB4g6
Link to FB event: https://fb.me/e/byEnXK30K
You will receive the access data for the online meeting on the day of the seminar.