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Dear Colleagues NCeSS Agenda Setting Workshop Bridging quantitative and qualitative methods for social sciences using text mining techniques Manchester Conference Centre, UK 28th April 2006 This free workshop aims to bring together researchers from different subject areas (computer scientists, computational linguistics, social scientists, psychologists, etc) in order to explore how text mining techniques can revolutionise quantitative and qualitative research methods in social sciences. New technologies from text mining (e.g. information extraction, summarisation, question-answering, text categorisation, sectioning, topic identification, etc.) which go beyond concordances, frequency counts etc can be used for quantitative and qualitative content analysis of different data types (e.g. transcripts of interviews, questionnaire analysis, archives, chatroom files, weblogs, etc). The semantic analysis of new text types, e.g. weblogs is important for sociologists and political scientists in inferring social trends. Reputation and sentiment analysis collects and identifies people's opinions, attitudes and sentiments in text. Text mining techniques also aid metadata creation for qualitative data and facilitate their sharing. Speaker include Prof. Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Dr Tetsuya Nasukawa, IBM Tokyo Research Lab., Japan and Dr Lee Gillam, University of Surrey. Registration is now open at: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/ Poster Abstracts still being accepted! Poster abstracts for the Second International Conference on e-Social Science are still being accepted (closing date 27th of March). Topics include: Case studies of e-Social Science research methods and applications Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social Science Infrastructure and tools for e-Social Science Middleware for data collection, sharing and integration Standards for metadata, ontologies, annotation, curation, etc. Usability issues in the design of research tools and middleware Case studies of (e-)Research and (e-) Social Science research practices The benefits and challenges of large scale collaborative research Interdisciplinary research and e-Social Science International collaborations in e-Social Science Socio-technical issues in the development of e-Research and the Grid Ethical issues and challenges in the collection, integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal data Please submit a 250 – 300 word abstract at: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/submissions/ Best wishes Gillian Sinclair Dr Gillian Sinclair Programme Manager ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science University of Manchester Dover Street Building Dover Street Manchester M13 9PL UK Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.ncess.ac.uk Join our monthly mailing list at: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/newsletter