Conference on Optimal Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data

Agenda

8:30		Continental Breakfast
9:00		Welcome, Introductions, and Agenda, Skip Lupia/Jon Krosnick
9:10		ANES Open-ended Questions: Wording, Coding Procedures, and Uses, Jon Krosnick
9:35		The Challenges of Transparency in Collecting, Coding, and Analyzing Open-ended Survey Data, Skip Lupia
10:00		Problems with Open-ended ANES Questions Measuring Factual Knowledge about Politics, James Gibson
10:30		Problems with Open-ended ANES Questions Measuring What Respondents Like and Dislike about Candidates and Political Parties, David RePass
11:00		Break
11:15		Open-ended Questions in the NLSY, Randy Olsen
11:45		Open-ended Questions in the GSS, Tom Smith
12:15		Lunch
1:15		Assessing Inflation Variance Estimates Due to Coder Error Using a Coder Reliability Study, Patrick Sturgis
2:00		Coding Verbal Data – What to Optimize, Klaus Krippendorff
2:45		Open-ended questions and text analysis, Roel Popping
3:30		Break
3:45		Matters of Fact, Opinion, and Credibility: Distinguishing Stochastic from Substantive Information in Texts, Carl Roberts
4:30		Relations in Texts (and How to Get at Them), Roberto Franzosi
5:15		Adjourn
6:30		Dinner, Zanzibar, 216 South State Street, Ann Arbor

8:30		Continental Breakfast
9:00		Announcements
9:05		Coding Responses Generated by Open-Ended Questions: Meaning Matching or Meaning Inference?, Jim Potter
9:50		Classifying Open Occupation Descriptions in the Current Population Survey, Fred Conrad
10:35		Break
10:45		CATA (Computer Aided Text Analysis) Options for the Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data, Paul Skalski
11:30		Computer coding of 1992 ANES Like/Dislike and MIP responses, David Fan
12:15		Lunch
1:15		Machines that Learn how to Code Open-Ended Survey Data: Underlying Principles, Experimental Data, and Methodological Issues, Fabrizio Sebastiani
2:00		CAQDAS, Secondary Analysis and the Coding of Survey Data, Nigel Fielding
2:45		Break
3:00		The Application of Concept Mapping to Text Analysis: Examples and Validity Issues, Kristin Behfar
3:45		Methods for Assessing the Reliability of Coding, Matthew Lombard
4:15		Lessons Learned from the Conference and Directions for Future Research, Skip Lupia/Jon Krosnick
5:15		Adjourn
6:30		Dinner, Gratzi, 336 South Main Street, Ann Arbor