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Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the 7th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference 2025, The Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quanti­tative and Computational Analysis of Text-, Image- and Video-as-Data, which took place on April 24 to 26 in Vienna / Austria. His talk was titled „Using LLMs ...

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the PolMeth Europe 2025, the conference of The Society of Political Methodology, which took place on April 7 and 8 in London / U.K.. His talk was titled „Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem ...

Prof. Ratkovic visited the group of Asst. Prof. Romain Ferrali at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and gave a talk entitled „Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem, Regression, and Concordance“. The abstract reads: Text ...

With the start of the spring term we welcome two new researchers to our group! Dr. Matthew Robertson is joining us as a Post-Doctoral researcher. Matthew received his PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University under Benjamin Goldsmith, where his research focused on ...

Dr. Selim Yaman is leaving the team for a great new job opportunity at the Office for National Statistics (UK civil service) where he will be working as a Senior Data Scientist. Congratulations, Selim! We are sad to see you leave, but we wish you all the best for the future and a successful start in ...

Prof. Ratkovic and Henning Schoenenberger (Springer Nature) have been interviewed by the DUZ magazine on their view of AI in social sciences and publishing and their experiences in the recent hackaton, a cooperation project of the Ratkovic group and the Gschwend group from the University of Mannheim ...

The University of Mannheim asked Prof. Ratkovic as one of five researchers from different disciplines about his opinion on the election of Donald Trump as the next US president. The original press release in German language can be found here.

This fall we welcomed two new researchers to our group! Dr. Selim Yaman has joined us as a Post-Doctoral researcher in August 2024, coming from the American University at Washington D.C. where he completed his PhD specializing in text analysis methods within political science. He is currently ...

On the occasion of the US elections 2024 the student representatives of the Departments of Sociology and Political Science of the University of Mannheim are organizing a panel discussion with three speakers: Prof. Marc Ratkovic, Ph.D. (Chair of Social Data Science, Universität Mannheim)Dr. Ala ...