Group photo from COMPTEXT 2023.

6th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2024 – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
2-4 May, 2024

The COMPTEXT 2024 Organising Committee consists of:

  • Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Roan Buma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Alona O. Dolinsky (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Johannes Gruber (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  • Kasper Welbers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Miklós Sebők (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)

The Call for Papers is available here.

The conference program and the Social Guide are coming soon.

5th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2023 – University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 12-13 May, 2023

  • The COMPTEXT 2023 Organising Committee consists of: Christine Sylvester and Zachary Greene.
  • The conference program is available here
  • Our Social Guide of Glasgow is available here.

Conference Sponsors:
OPTED project, the EUINACTION Norface Network project, the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, and the Glasgow City Council.

4th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2022 – Dublin, 6-7 May, 2022

The COMPTEXT 2022 Organising Committee consists of:

  • James Cross (University College Dublin)
  • Alona Dolinsky (University College Dublin)
  • Derek Greene (University College Dublin)
  • Paula Montano (University College Dublin)
  • Stefan Müller (University College Dublin)
  • Martijn Schoonvelde (University College Dublin)
  • Miklós Sebők (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)

The conference program is available here.

3rd Annual COMPTEXT Conference – Online, May 14, 2020

  • Organizing committee leader: Lisa Lechner
  • Members of the organizing commitee: James Cross, Olga Eisele, Christoph Ivanusch, Fabienne Lind, Miklós Sebők, Thomas Walli, Kohei Watanabe
  • The conference program is available here.

2nd Annual POLTEXT Conference 2019 – Tokyo, September 13-15, 2019 

  • Organizing committee leader: Kohei Watanabe
  • Members of the organizing committee: Lisa Lechner, Miklós Sebők
  • The conference call is available here.
  • The conference program is available here.
  • Information on the sponsors of the conference is provided below.

1st Annual POLTEXT Conference 2018 – Budapest, May 9-11, 2018

  • Organizing committee leader: Miklós Sebők
  • Members of the organizing committee: Zsolt Boda, Zsolt Ződi
  • The conference call is available here.
  • The conference program is available here.
  • Information on the sponsors of the conference is available here.

MISSION

COMPTEXT is an international community of quantitative text-as-data scholars. COMPTEXT is a legacy project of the 2018 POLTEXT Conference in Budapest (organized by Miklós Sebők) and the 2019 POLTEXT Conference in Tokyo (organized by Kohei Watanabe, Lisa Lechner and Miklós Sebők.) From 2020, the project continues with a new name, one that better reflects our inclusive vision.

The name of The COMPTEXT Project reflects

  • The complexity of research problems at the intersection of social sciences (particularly political science and international relations) and information technology
  • The use of computational methods in analyzing textual sources
  • The comparative approach to solving these problems, such as multi-lingual comparative analysis

The Annual Conferences of the COMPTEXT project adhere to the following principles

  • Interdisciplinarity: While there is a special emphasis on political science, international relations, communication studies and the analysis of legal texts, application are welcome from any related field including sociology, economics, computer science, artificial intelligence etc.
  • Equality: we encourage the participation of advanced M.A. and Ph.D students who are expected to give a fair share of presentations at the Annual Conference. We provide equal opportunity to all scholars regardless of ethnicity, gender or religion. In order to enhance the diffusion of quantitative text analysis methods in the social science, each COMPTEXT event feature a dedicated Tutorial Day, where interactive courses are offered on a variety of themes and methodological approaches related to the core mission of the project.
  • Global outlook: the aim of the COMPTEXT project is to create a truly global community of quantitative text analysis scholars. For this reason, besides the Annual Conference, we are happy to sponsor and co-brand regional thematic workshops across the globe.
  • Diversity: our goal is to foster the development of text analysis methods beyond English, the lingua franca of the early 21st century. Therefore, the Annual Conference allocates ample space for the presentation of work undertaken on corpora in languages other than English.

WHO WE ARE

James Cross

Zachary Greene

Lisa Lechner

Miklós Sebők

The convenor of the COMPTEXT Conference is Miklós Sebők (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest). Further members of the Executive Board are James Cross (University College Dublin), Zachary Greene (University of Strathclyde) and Lisa Lechner (University of Innsbruck). The board is assisted by project manager Laura Seben.