Call for Papers and Panels - The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary COMPTEXT Conference, Vienna, Austria

COMPTEXT 2025

The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary COMPTEXT Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image and Video as Data 

will be held at 

The University of Vienna, Austria, on 24-26 April 2025.

COMPTEXT is an international community of scholars working on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image, and Video as Data. COMPTEXT conferences offer opportunities to obtain useful feedback on ongoing research, present new data and methods, network with scholars working on similar themes, and participate in workshops. 

The increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in computational text analysis presents opportunities and challenges for the social sciences. At COMPTEXT 2025, two critical issues will be explored in depth: first, the evolving infrastructures needed to support LLMs and their impact on open science; second, strategies to mitigate bias and improve the representation of marginalized voices in computational text analysis. With that in mind, we are pleased to announce two engaging roundtable discussions at COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna:

1. Collaborative Futures: Infrastructures and Open Science in the Age of LLMs
2. Beyond the Margins: Addressing Bias and Amplifying Marginalized Voices in Computational Text Analysis

While these round tables will focus on specific themes, paper, panel, and data presentation submissions can, but are not required to, adhere to these topics.

PAPERS. For COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna, we are seeking paper submissions that

• Rely on image, video, text, or other digital trace data to study social and political phenomena broadly construed
• Propose, present, or evaluate new computational methods, tools, or datasets
• Offer methodological comparisons, reflections, or critiques of existing computational approaches
• Apply computational methods to make contributions at the intersection of social science and computer science

We accept both substantive and methodological papers for presentation. Substantive papers may be on any studies in the social sciences or humanities that utilize computational methods, while methodological papers may describe new computational methods, tools, datasets, and approaches.

PANELS. We also accept full panel presentations of three or four papers engaging with overlapping themes from a substantive or methodological perspective.

DATA PRESENTATIONS. We invite data presentations on publicly available resources to be featured in one of the conference’s plenary sessions.

WORKSHOPS. In keeping with our tradition, the first day of the conference (April 24) is dedicated to a series of methods training workshops for registered participants. Courses will be offered for both beginner and advanced-level participants.

Submission formats:

Paper Proposals. Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords.

Panel Proposals: Title, abstract of max. 250 words summarizing the panel’s topic and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords. Further, abstracts of max. 250 words for three or four papers included in the panel.

Data Presentation Proposals:  Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords.

Please submit your proposals at https://www.conftool.org/comptext2025/

Timeline:

• Submission deadline: 15 January 2025
• Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2025.
• The conference programme will be published, and registration will open by 15 March 2025.
• Full paper upload by April 8. 2025.

Please be advised that a conference fee will be charged for participants with accepted papers and for workshop participants. Reduced rates will be available for early career researchers (up to 4 years since Ph.D).