Topic Modelling

Beyond the Black Box Workshop: Topic Modelling

Dr Christof Schöch, University of Würzburg

Topic modelling is a method of textual analysis which has been in use within computer science for some time, but which has in recent years begun to generate interest among humanities scholars for its ability to identify “topics”, or thematic clusters, in textual corpora by analysing the way terms are distributed across documents. This workshop will explain the mathematical basis on which topic modelling algorithms operate, and will show participants how to begin creating topic models of their own.

This workshop will require participants to bring their own laptops.

Room details TBC