Congist’24 Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice

Session

Session 1.1 (Day 3)

D3S1SA6

20 Dec 2024, 09:00

A6 (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Description

Dilbilim / Linguistics

Why Firth Matters More Than Chomsky in the Age of AI?

Yasin Taşdemir (İstanbul Üniversitesi)

20/12/2024, 09:00

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Oral Presentation

While Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) theory dominated linguistics for decades (Chomsky, 1957), its emphasis on innate syntactic structures turned out not be the optimal foundation for AI applications. J.R. Firth's functionalist approach, however, offered a compelling alternative due to its focus on context in deriving meaning. This renewed relevance stems from the striking parallels...

Rethinking Methodologies in Studying Conversational AI Discourse

Didem Leblebici (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder))

20/12/2024, 09:30

Theoretical Foundations

Oral Presentation

In digital discourse studies, “blended data” approaches that combine an analysis of digital content with an ethnographically grounded context are increasingly popular (Androutsopoulos, 2021; Varis & Hou, 2020). The main advantage of this methodology is that it provides background information on users, their positionings and thus paints a more comprehensive picture of the digital data. There...

AI Driven Text Analysis Techniques in Social Sciences: Advancements and Applications

Abdullah Topraksoy (İstanbul Üniversitesi), Ekaterina Patrina (Marmara Üniversitesi)

20/12/2024, 10:00

Case Studies and Applications

Oral Presentation

This study explores the application of AI-driven text analysis techniques in social sciences, focusing on sociology, linguistics-language teaching, and psychology. As digital textual data proliferates, AI powered tools offer unprecedented capabilities to process and analyze vast corpora, revolutionizing research methodologies. We examine some of the current Natural Language Processing (NLP)...