[Commlist] CFP: POLTEXT 2019: The 3rd International Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

CALL FOR PAPERS

POLTEXT 2019: The 3rd International Interdisciplinary Symposium on the 
Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

14-15 September 2019, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

The next POLTEXT symposium (https://www.poltextconference.org) will take 
place in Tokyo, Japan in September 2019. The conference aims to 
facilitate the knowledge exchange between social scientists and computer 
scientists who address social, political or economic issues through the 
analysis of textual data by employing quantitative methods. It also 
features multi-lingual analysis of textual data to promote the 
methodology beyond the English language. In this, the symposium will be 
the first of its kind in Japan. Jonathan Slapin (University of Essex) 
and Amy Catalinac (New York University) have been confirmed as keynote 
speakers related to these two themes, respectively.

We strongly encourage scholars who employ quantitative text analysis 
methods to submit abstracts for presentation at the conference. Both 
substantive and methodological papers will be accepted for presentation. 
Substantive papers may be related to any social science or humanities 
discipline as long as the project is based on a quantitative analysis of 
textual data. Possible subjects for methodological papers may include 
text classification, topic modeling, information extraction, sentiment 
analysis, ideal point estimation, argumentation mining, political 
reputation analysis, and multilingual comparison.

Following the precedence of the previous POLTEXT Incubator Workshop in 
2018 (https://poltext.tk.mta.hu/en), we are planning to offer free 
tutorial sessions (e.g. Quantitative Text Analysis in R, Quantitative 
Analysis of Textual Data using Machine Learning) to participants on the 
day before the main event (13 September). If you are interested in 
offering a tutorial on methods or text mining tools, please contact the 
organizers.

The symposium is organized by Kohei Watanabe (Institute for Advanced 
Study, Waseda University), Miklós Sebők (Centre for Social Sciences, 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Lisa Lechner (University of Innsbruck).

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS AND PAPERS

Proposals, along with an abstract of 250 words and six keywords, should 
be submitted via the submission form 
(https://www.poltextconference.org/submit-an-abstract) by 31 March 2019. 
Notifications of acceptance are due by 30 April. The registration 
deadline is 30 August. Full-length papers must be uploaded by 31 August. 
Selected papers will be published in the symposium proceedings.

TRAVEL GRANTS FOR EARLY CAREER PRESENTERS

We understand that traveling to Japan is a costly affair. Therefore our 
aim is to offer financial support to young scholars traveling from 
overseas with the help of charitable foundations and sponsorship by 
Japanese scholars. If you need financial support, please indicate in the 
abstract submission form 
(https://www.poltextconference.org/submit-an-abstract). Full or partial 
travel funds will be available for graduate students and early career 
researchers (up to four years since doctorate has been granted) who are 
willing to take part in bi-lateral co-operations with Japanese scholars 
and host institutions. We will offer more detail on these travel options 
as soon as funds become available.

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