The Second FORTHEM Conference – Connecting Science and Society – provided a valuable platform for academic exchange on variety of pressing issues. Among the diverse talks, two CORECON presentations explored how war coverage and media representations shape public perceptions and democratic resilience. In one speech, presenters BÂLC Denisa-Maria and TICĂRĂU Iulia-Maria examined the role of…
Topic modeling is an umbrella term used to denote a host of semi-automated or fully automated corpus linguistic methods that aim to map the content of texts by identifying dominant themes. When driven by an algorithm that is trained in either a supervised or unsupervised manner on a dataset, the method makes it possible to…
Data collection is the base for any empirical study and corpus analysis is a well-established method used within critical discourse studies. Jędrzej Olejniczak in his blogpost wrote about data collection, management and processing in CORECON. Here I explain the motivations behind methodological choices and our rationales in data collection and data annotation protocols used when…