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Hendrik Erz

PhD student

My research revolves around the measurement of culture. I employ deep learning models to extract patterns from textual data. Currently, I work with the U.S. Congressional Records.

Presentation

I am a PhD Student at the Institute for Analytical Sociology. I use computational tools to make sense of large amounts of textual data and extract signals that help understand culture.

My PhD project is about understanding how ideas about the world shape the actions of people and to develop measurements to find cues of this in textual data. To this end I currently employ the U.S. Congressional Records, a vast resource of text spanning from 1873 to the present, and use deep learning models ("neural networks") to find patterns in the data.

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2025

Alexandra Dirksen, Sebastian Giessler, Hendrik Erz, Martin Johns, Tobias Fiebig (2025) Don't Patch the Researcher, Patch the Game: A Systematic Approach for Responsible Research via Federated Ethics Boards Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop, p. 126-141 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Manika Lamba, Hendrik Erz (2025) Thanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in theses Data and Information Management, Article 100092 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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