Conference on Optimal Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data
Agenda
Thursday, December 4
| 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 |
Friday, December 5
| 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 |