Method seminars

The seminars are held at Institute of Polish Language PAN in Kraków, or during the COVID-19 pandemic online, at roughly biweekly basis. Depending on the group, the language is Polish or English. If you have detailed questions, do contact us at csg email.

The topics we’ve been covering

2019/2020

Topic Modeling seminar created and conducted by Maciej Eder.

• Workshop materials
• Lecture slides
• practical introduction with Dariah Topics Explorer

Topic Modeling seminar created and conducted by Albert Leśniak and Wojciech Łukasik.

Tutorial on topic modeling for Polish using Spacy PL model

Necessary installations:

• Anaconda (or simply Python + Jupyter Notebooks)
• Spacy
• Gensim
• pyLDAvis for visualisation
• Spacy models for Polish

1. BeautifulSoup (pip install bs4)
2. lxml (pip install lxml)
3. tqdm (pip install tqdm)
4. corpus (git clone https://github.com/computationalstylistics/100_polish_novels_POS.git)

Keyword extraction

2020/2021

Comparing texts - divergence, distances

Reading group

Our activities also include biweekly reading group meetings in which we discuss essential and novel works related to our (mostly stylometric) interests.