The COMPTEXT Association
COMPTEXT is an international community and forum for text/image/video as data scholars
- 📣Call for Bids! We’re seeking hosts for the 9th & 10th International #COMPTEXT conferences (2027 & 2028). 📅Bid deadline: March 15, 2026 Request materials: info@comptextconference.org Please circulate within your networks!
- Thank you everyone for a huge number of submissions, we are humbled by the overwhelming interest in COMPTEXT 2026! The variety of research topics, methods, and tutorials previews a great conference at the University of Birmingham! Acceptance notifications will be sent by 17 February.
- Submissions to COMPTEXT 2026 close tomorrow! Showcase your text-, image-, and video-as-data research, get useful feedback, join the training workshops, and connect with like-minded researchers at our social events in Birmingham. See you there!
- Submission for #COMPTEXT2026 is still open 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers and panels. We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/gRg0p! See you in Birmingham, 23–25 April 2026!
- The Call for Papers and Panels for #COMPTEXT2026 in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate: shorturl.at/gRg0p! Deadline: January 16!
- SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!
- Even though COMPTEXT2025 closed last weekend, its spirit will live on in the splendid photography of our dedicated group of colleagues from the University of Vienna: @jamoeberl.bsky.social, @amplanitzer.bsky.social, @apeksha.bsky.social! We thank and appreciate their work!
- After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!
- How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!
- The success of COMPTEXT 2025 was made possible by the indefatigable and amazing work of the local organising team led by @fabiennelind.bsky.social + @hajoboo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @compcommlab.bsky.social. The COMPTEXT Association is grateful for their work and to our sponsors (bit.ly/430VUye)!
- We are happy to announce the recipients of the COMPTEXT Association travel grants. Grants were based on priorities such as ensuring global attendance and diversity. 2025 recipients are: Junaid Ahmed, Jiyoung Lee, Larissa Miller, Naama Rivlin, Ren Tao, Zeynep Zulfikar
- A lively late morning at #COMPTEXT2025 brought stimulating sessions on narrative and framing, LLM performance, affective polarisation, political language in crisis, media bias, and protest in authoritarian regimes.
- The #COMPTEXT2025 is back in full swing with Day 2. Our panels address multilingual text classification, LLM tools, democratic legitimacy, political discourse on crises, media polarization, and far-right digital narratives. @hajoboo.bsky.social @jamoeberl.bsky.social @jamoeberl.bsky.social
- #COMPTEXT2025’s afternoon panels delivered thrilling presentations on validating computational methods, navigating populism in digital spaces, European crisis politics, global power shifts, and gender in political narratives. The thought-provoking topics sparked rich discussion.
- #COMPTEXT2025 conference is thriving, with a massive crowd gathering—queues winding through the halls! Afternoon panels tackle computational method validation, political analysis trends, populism on social media, European policy responses, global power dynamics, and gender in political discourse.
- #COMPTEXT2025 is charged with insights as parallel panels explore key themes like automated text extraction, multimodal political communication, climate politics, domestic economic framing, tech ethics, and social identities.
- The biggest ever COMPTEXT conference at the @univie.ac.at is officially under way! Registration has opened and the first panels—on ideological estimation, misinformation, climate discourse, global economic narratives, and digital content influence—are now taking place. #COMPTEXT2025
- Afternoon workshops at #COMPTEXT2025 wrapped up with in-depth sessions on narrative analysis, researcher access under the DSA, concept measurement, and efficient LLM training. Thanks to @mariaa.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social, @haukelicht.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and all participants!
- A stimulating morning of hands-on tutorials at #COMPTEXT2025 introduced participants to advanced techniques in digital trace data collection, visual content analysis, and Bayesian text modelling. The day is far from over — stay tuned for more cutting-edge methods in action.
- Rooms are packed to capacity as tutorials on cutting-edge AI research techniques unfold at #COMPTEXT2025 @valeriehase.bsky.social, @frodewald.bsky.social / @hdnrch.bsky.social / Petro Tolochko
- #COMPTEXT2025 is just 2 days away, and we cannot be more excited to meet all participants at the University of Vienna. Please find the updated and final program here: bit.ly/42WZKZa. Please find the city guide for your time in Vienna here: bit.ly/3RsZY3R See you later this week!
- Registration for presenters, co-authors, and all interested parties is still live for COMPTEXT 2025 until April 10! Members enjoy discounts, so please join us at bit.ly/3DvZiYl! Register here: bit.ly/4hJ7thP. See you all in Vienna!
- One big step for COMPTEXT, and we’ll see about mankind! The COMPTEXT Association is finally here! After six conferences we are now ready to accept human members (agents are excluded, for now). Members enjoy perks! We welcome everyone to join us at bit.ly/3DvZiYl!
- Notifications for COMPTEXT 2025 have been sent to all applicants! Please check your spam folder if you have not heard from us. For additional inquiries, please contact us at comptext25[at]comptextconference[dot]org. Registration with/without papers will open on March 15!
- Thank you everyone for a record-number of submissions—we are humbled by the overwhelming interest in COMPTEXT 2025! The variety of research topics, methods, data presentations, and tutorials preview a great conference at the University of Vienna! Notifications are due Feb. 15!
- Last day of submissions to COMPTEXT 2025! Showcase your text-, image- and video-as-data research, get useful feedback and participate in the training workshops–and mingle with like-minded researchers in lovely Vienna at our social events! See you there!
- Submission for #COMPTEXT2025 is still open until January 15! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers, panels, and data presentations! We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! See you at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April!
- Submission for #COMPTEXT2025 is still open until January 15! We are looking forward to receiving your proposals for papers, panels, and data presentations! We also appreciate it if you can spread the word and circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! See you at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April!
- The Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations for #COMPTEXT2025 is now out; please feel free to circulate shorturl.at/AmocX! Deadline: January 15! We look forward to meeting you at the University of Vienna and @compcommlab.bsky.social on 24-26 April 2025!
- We are pleased to announce that #COMPTEXT2025 will take place at the University of Vienna on 24-26 April 2025. With the great organising team @compcommlab.bsky.social we will soon release the Call for Papers, Panels and Data Presentations! Stay tuned!
