Text as Data: New windows into climate hazards and society
WaterCentre@KTH proudly presents a lunch seminar with Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho, postdoc researcher at the Data Science Center of Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).
Time: Thu 2025-06-12 12.00 - 13.00
Location: Climate Action House, Teknikringen 43
Participating: Taís Maria Nunes Carvalho
Texts document a wealth of knowledge about society and historical developments that might otherwise remain beyond our analytical reach, thus offering possibilities for investigating the social dimensions of climate change, including perceptions, impacts, and adaptive responses over time.
This seminar will offer insights into how using text as data can improve our understanding of climate hazards impacts, social adaptation and response measures used to address them. Taís will show how natural language processing can be used to screen and derive information from thousands of scientific papers, reports from the Red Cross actions and national drought planning documents.