Past-conferences

2016

Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (Dubrovnik, Croatia)

The first POLTEXT conference was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, supported by the European Union in 2016. It was organized by Daniela Širinić (University of Zagreb), Jan Šnajder (University of Zagreb), Shaun Bevan (University of Edinburgh), and Zoltán Fazekas (University of Oslo). The event was sponsored by the European Social Fund, Operational Programme Efficient Human Resources 2014-2020.

• Call for papers
• Program
• Proceedings

2018

Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)

POLTEXT 2018 conference was held in 11-12 May as an "incubator workshop" in order to chart the possibilities of the future of the POLTEXT project. The event was organized by Miklós Sebők (Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

• Website (External)
• Pictures (Google Photo)

2019

Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)

POLTEXT 2019 was held in Tokyo in 14-15 September organized by Kohei Watanabe (Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University) with the support from the Top Global University Project and the Telecommunication Advancement Foundation. As the first international conference on quantitative text analysis, it also featured multi-lingual analysis of texts to promote the methodology beyond English language, and attracted 90 participants (60 for presenting and 30 for auditing) from across the world. Keynote speeches were delivered by Sven-Oliver Proksch (University of Cologne) and Jonathan Slapin (University of Zurich) at the conference.

• Program
  • Tutorials
  • Presentations
• Pictures (Google Photo)