
We will be at MethodsCon: Futures in Manchester, run by the National Centre for Research Methods on 11 and 12 September 2024 to present Harmony, the NLP and AI tool we have been developing for researchers in social science, funded by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council. The events take place at The Edwardian Manchester.
The first event is a workshop on 11 September:
15:30-15:45 Spotlight 14: Harmony: a Natural Processing Approach to Data Discoverability and Harmonisation
We will be presenting in the workshop: FDS 3 and Corpus-assisted discourse studies on 12 September, with events titled:
A.) Harmony: A natural language processing approach to data discovery and harmonisation.
B.) Corpus-assisted discourse studies: An introduction to a mixed methodology.
Video of Thomas Wood presenting Harmony at the AICamp meetup on 27 March 2024
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