Linguistics, NLP, and Political Communication

This page will host the notes for the 2025 ESSLLI course: "Linguistics, NLP, and Political Communication" by myself and Ellen Breitholtz. You can contact me by the email below or Ellen by the email at the link.

• Monday:
  • Introduction
  • Theories and methods in political communication and opinion research: An overview
• Tuesday:
  • Linguistic theories applicable to political communication: An overview
  • Communicative agents and incentives
• Wednesday: Opinion research with a language focus
• Thursday: Common sense reasoning and political communication
• Friday: Dogwhistles and NLP in political communication

Application and references

The original application contains a page of references, some of which will be mentioned in the notes.