The Call for Papers for the 2022 COMPTEXT conference is now closed. The conference will take place in-person (no hybrid or online options) on 6–7 May 2022, and we offer pre-conference methodological workshops on 5 May.

As part of the COMPTEXT 2022 conference, we are organizing tutorials on 5 May to provide practical skills in the field of quantitative text analysis.Tutorials are available here.

We are happy to announce that the keynote speech: “Developing a critical approach to Computational Social Science”, will be delivered by Eugenia Siapera, Professor of Information and Communication Studies and head of the ICS School at UCD. Her research interests are in the area of digital and social media, political communication and journalism, technology and social justice, platform governance and hate speech, racism and misogyny.
 
 
 
 
Please note that as present, and following current government advice on Covid-19, the conference is set to take place in person at University College Dublin.
However, if the regulatory regime changes we will provide updates here on the official website of the conference.
 
If you have any questions, please regularly check back on the conference website or send an email to comptext22@ucd.ie.
 
We look forward to seeing you in  Dublin at COMPTEXT 2022!
 
 

  Program

Thursday, May 5th

10:30

11:00

Welcome coffee & Registration

  

 

11:00

13:00

W1: Joint Estimation of Sentiment and Topics in Textual Data
Christian Pipal

W2: Collecting and Analysing Twitter Data
Natalia Umansky

W3: Supervised machine learning with imbalanced data
Nicolai Berk

 

13:00

14:00

Break

  

 

14:00

16:00

W4: Introduction to Deep Learning
Chris Arnold

W5: Multilingual supervised text classification
Hauke Licht

W6: Data Visualisation using ggplot2
Akos Mate

 

   

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Friday, May 6th

09:00

 

Registration

  
 

09:45

11:15

Panel 1A – Classification and Explanation

Panel 1B – Social Media and Rhetoric

Panel 1C – Gender and Parliamentary Speech

 

11:15

11:30

Coffee Break

  
 

11:30

13:00

Panel 2A – Discourse and Frames

Panel 2B – Identifying Topics without Topic Models

Panel 2C – Machine Learning for Various Types of Political Text

 

13:00

14:00

Lunch Break

  
 

14:00

15:30

Panel 3A – Scaling, Stances, and Signalling

Panel 3B – Competition Within and Between Parties

Panel 3C – Social Media and Public Discourse

 

15:30

16:00

Coffee Break

  
 

16:00

17:15

Plenary Event

  
 

19:00

21:00

Conference Dinner

  
      
      

Saturday
May, 7th

09:45

11:15

Panel 4A – Concepts and Stereotypes

Panel 4B – Issue Emphasis on Social Media

Panel 4C – Analysing and Predicting News Content

 

11:15

11:30

Coffee Break

  
 

11:30

13:00

Panel 5A – Policy and International Institutions

Panel 5B – Setting the Agenda

Panel 5C – Political Speech Around The World

 

13:00

14:00

Lunch Break

  
 

14:00

15:30

Panel 6A – Legislators’ Strategic Rhetoric

Panel 6B – Detecting and Interpreting Topics

Panel 6C – Emotions Across Languages

 

15:30

15:45

Coffee Break

  
 

15:45

17:15

Panel 7A – How to Solve Classification Problems

Panel 7B – Power, Persistence, and Psychology

Panel 7C – Political Rhetoric

 

The detailed program is available here.