Please join us for this joint DACSS and CSSI seminar:
Matthias Roesti (Brown University & University of St. Gallen)
Date and Time: Friday November 21, 2025, 12 pm-1:15 pm
Location: Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A112
From RAGs to riches? An efficient pipeline for exploratory text analysis
Abstract: I introduce a scalable computational approach for comparing large bodies of text across many research questions using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). By combining language models with domain-specific retrieval, the method enables fast, flexible, and customizable text analysis - offering a powerful alternative to traditional document-by-document approaches.
Bio: Matthias Roesti is a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Department of Economics and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of St. Gallen. His research combines political economy and computational social science to examine how digital information systems and organized interests shape public discourse, using large-scale text, media, and algorithmic data.
