Inductive Analysis of Texts with Embeddings
with Dr. Dustin Stoltz, Lehigh University
Location
The Commons : 329
Date & Time
November 5, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Description
Advancing Social Science Research: A Workshop Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods
Inductive Analysis of Texts with Embeddings
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Lunch will be provided for registered attendees.
Word or text embeddings are a central component in modern language models, including those powering generative AI. Embeddings represent word meanings as positions in space, where words that are closer together are used in similar contexts or evoke similar concepts -- even if those words never actually co-occur. We navigate the meaning space created by embeddings directly using basic arithmetic, and in doing so, explore how meaning changes overtime or how meaning differs between different collections of texts.
Dustin Stoltz is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Cognitive Science at Lehigh University. He studies a variety of topics in cultural and economic sociology and specializes in computational methods. Five copies of his recently published book Mapping Texts: Computational Text Analysis for the Social Sciences (coauthored by Marshall Taylor) will be raffled off to workshop registrants.
Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship and cosponsored by the Departments of English; Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health; Modern Languages, Linguistics, & Intercultural Communication; the Division of Information Technology; the Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science; and CGC-SCIPE.
CS3 sponsored events are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.
