The COMPTEXT Association

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.