"Methods" is a series of seminars organized by the Transitions Institute at the University of Namur with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and the exchange of knowledge. All seminars are held in a hybrid format.
The "Methods" seminar series focuses on cutting-edge methodological approaches, particularly in the fields of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), video and image analysis, and multimodal analysis.
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Past Sessions
March 20, 2025 - Auguste Debroise and Nelson Santos
Title of the first presentation - Introductory Concepts and Recent Applications in the Social
Sciences Title of the second presentation - NLP, LLM, and AI - Exploring Advanced Tools for Economists and Social Scientists
April 3, 2025 - Michael Heseltine
Title - Turning to the Local? Localized Rhetoric in Conference Proceedings
May 15, 2025 - Malka Guillot
Title - REFLEX: A Registry of the Life and Demise of Businesses
September 23, 2025 - Miklós Sebok
Title - Solving Classification Problems for Social and Economic Research with the Babel Machine
September 24, 2025 - Miklós Sebok
Title - Using Advanced AI Solutions for Text-Based Social and Economic Research
October 15, 2025 – Christopher Klamm
Title – Measuring Personal Attacks in Parliamentary Debates
December 2, 2025 – Philine Widmer
Title – Deep Latent Factor Models for Text and Audiovisual Data
March 5, 2026 – Yanos Zylberberg
Title – State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings
May 28, 2026 – Barbara McGillivray
Title – Computational Approaches to Meaning Change