Machine Learning of Concepts Hard Even for Humans: The Case of Online Depression Forums
2020.08.25.
Faculty lecturers published an article in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods (Q1, impact factor 3,6) titled Machine Learning of Concepts Hard Even for Humans: The Case of Online Depression Forums.
Renáta Németh, Domonkos Sik and Fanni Máté as the members of the Research Centre for Computational Social Science analyzed online depression forums with NLP method. Many Sociology and Survey Statistics students took part in the research. They learned during the process that using machine learning in sociology research has its hermeneutic limitations. The peer-viewers found the work very promising. The article is available here.