The two-day workshop conveys basic knowledge of text classification workflows (document and sentence classification, e.g. for identifying relevant documents or sentiment analysis) and sequence tagging forr information extraction (e.g. named entities or protest event data such as protest form, issues, or number f participants). The workflow presented in the workshop is based on neural transformer networks (BERT and successor models) and includes the following steps:

1. 1) handling of typical data formats for model training and prediction (CSV, XMI CAS, CoNLL),
2. 2) application of pre-trained models,
3. 3) training or fine-tuning of models with own data for new tasks,
4. 4) hyper-parameter optimisation and evaluation of models.

The workshop includes short lecture content and plenty of time for exercises with prepared Jupyter Python notebooks running in the Google Colab platform in the browser. For machine learning, the Flair NLP framework and the Huggingface library of transformers based on Pytorch will be used.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge in Python programming, handling of Pandas data frames, optional: familiarisation with the Flair NLP framework

Preparation
register a Google account (exercises will be done with Google Colab)

Data set
Test events in local news texts (will be provided)

In this session, the Working Group will have a special guest - Jan Helmdag from the SOFI, Stockholm.

Jan is taking care of the data collection for the "Social Policy Indicators" (SPIN), previously SCIP, the "Social Citizenship Indicator Program".

The Working Group will discuss with Jan their current way of collecting and coding data on generosity and coverage, future plans, how they deal with harmonization topics – and of course, other topics brought up by the Working Group members.

Every CRC member interested in this topic and insights to the SPIN/SCIP data is welcome.

In the context of the CRC different projects analyse legal texts from Labour Law and Social Law. Due to the different research questions of the projects there are differences in the exact mode of analysis. Through discussions with Prof. Becker, a leading expert for international social law, we would like to gain a better understanding of the opportunities and limitations of our approaches, as well as obtain a better grasp on the similarities and differences.

The workshop will be attended by members of projects that specifically work on the analysis of legal texts. In addition, we also invite researchers in other projects interested in the subject to join us. This promises to be a good opportunity to discuss an important subject touching upon issues of methodology and measurement from an interdisciplinary perspective with a high-profile legal scholar. We would like to apologize for the late notification. In case you would like to join the workshop please contact Kerem Gabriel Öktem (oektem@uni-bremen.de)

Meeting of PIs with members of the working groups on Cash Benefits, In-kind Benefits und Regulations.

Workshop on Research Data Management for CRC PhDs and BIGSSS Fellows.

The retreat is geared towards all CRC members. Information on the programme will follow shortly.

Designing choropleth maps and info charts for a WeSIS publication.

Designing choropleth maps and info charts for a WeSIS publication.

The working group invites projects from both tiers A and B which deal with and collect information on in-kind benefits. The intention of the meeting is to get an overview what different projects are doing and to find a common vocabulary 

The meeting will be held in a hybrid format - for the zoom meeting room follow this link:

https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/93240464934?pwd=eTVjOW0vdld4NWdCNm9Zc0p4VlNuUT09

Meeting-ID: 932 4046 4934 – Kenncode: 147089

Designing choropleth maps and info charts for a WeSIS publication.

Designing choropleth maps and info charts for a WeSIS publication.

Kerem Öktem will give some insights from collecting data for the CWEP project, and Nils Düpont will share notes from the CWED2 data collection as well as some tempates.

Dr Avner Ofrath from the Department of History will share some insights about the various steps involved in archival research:

• defining the role of archives
• finding/locating relevant documents
• understanding different types of documents and contextualising their origins
• issues around analysis
• correct referencing
• ethical issues (e.g., data extraction from South to North)
• how to account for all the things that are not documented?

The participants will also reflect on their (past and future) uses of archives and historical documents.

For preparation (not mandatory): Anver Ovrath's article on what an archive actually is and does: https://www.oarplatform.com/on-leaving-the-archive/

Please register with Anna Wolkenhauer. The workshop will take place in the InIIS seminar room but also via Zoom. Anna will share log-in details upon request.

The meeting will take place in room 3.3380. Participation via zoom is possible as well. Irina Wiegand will send the access data on request.

The workshop is for you if you

• are new to the CRC and heard about but did not saw it yet
• know what it is (from the first phase) but never worked with it
• want to know how to make use of WeSIS in your research

We will introduce you to WeSIS and explore the system and the data, so please bring a laptop

In this workshop, relevant SFB 1342 projects will give short presentations on their projects and their specific plans and issues surrounding definitions and coding of coverage and generosity in their areas. Lyle Scrugss and the audience will give feedback and discuss strategies.

If you are part of the Unicom and interested in attending to learn more about coverage and generosity, please email Nate Breznau.

Zoom Room: https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/94461287912?pwd=L212SmhHalkwUVZaT1FCSk14c29RZz09

Agenda

1.) Welcome and Reports

2.) Confirmation of the members of the Board of the first CRC Phase for a transition period (not longer than June 30, 2022)

3.) Election of the Equal Opportunity Committee

4.) Miscellaneous