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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 29

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!

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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thank you, #COMPTEXT2025! ❤️ It was amazing to see familiar faces, meet new ones, and have so many insightful conversations and discussions. Thank you for the great feedback and inspiring presentations! I'm excited about where the field of computational social science is heading!

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Lucas Paulo da Silva @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thanks @comptext.bsky.social for a great conference in #Vienna! I presented (1) a new method -- "MQ-Class" -- for LLM-classifying the full spectrum of media ideology and (2) my project mapping the 2D structure of global media ideology. Great people, panels, and most importantly food!

#COMPTEXT2025

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thanks also to @comptext.bsky.social for keeping the ball rolling! I couldn't be happier this beautiful community exists 😁

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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Apr 27

The validation panels were epspecially popular at #COMPTEXT2025 To continue the discussion in June:👇

Christopher Klamm 🌱 @cklamm.bsky.social · Apr 25

I would be happy to see many from #COMPTEXT at our workshop VaLiSTAD in Copenhagen @ ICWSM in June to discuss the validation of social science TADA/ML methods (🔜 abstract deadline May 5). Please feel free to say hi and ask me or @indiiigo.bsky.social about this new workshop format ⬇️

Christopher Klamm 🌱 @cklamm.bsky.social · Apr 17

🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · Apr 23

Off to Vienna for this year’s #COMPTEXT2025 conference.

Really looking forward to seeing everyone again!

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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · Apr 24

Absolutely excited to have @ahrabhikat.bsky.social in Vienna - for COMPTEXT2025 and also for coffee ☕💚

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Apr 23

Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!

The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 22

#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!

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Christian Lendl @dchr.is · Apr 26

I absolutely loved @holnburger.bsky.social‘s presentation of his tool crowdbucket.io!

What a well-designed service to have LLM topic modeling results validated by humans in a convenient and fun way…like swiping on Tinder.

Will definitely use it for my historical gossip!

#COMPTEXT2025

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Anna Maria Planitzer @amplanitzer.bsky.social · Apr 26

🔥second-to-last panel at #COMPTEXT2025 on Hate, Counterspeech & Algorithmic Influence!
@simonkarg.bsky.social on tracking hate/counterspeech
Thomas Kirchmair on cross-platform variations of hate
Chico Camargo on (in)effective user agency
Chaired/discussed by Travis Coan & @jadevrielink.bsky.social 👏

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Anna Maria Planitzer @amplanitzer.bsky.social · Apr 26

Such a great & needed roundtable - for #COMPTEXT2025 and beyond! 👏👏

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Kateryna Maikovska 🇺🇦 @maikovska.bsky.social · Apr 26

Where does the bias hide? 🔎 Let's discuss the applicability of multimodal models for clustering multilingual SM data w
@daweg.bsky.social @nadjaoz.bsky.social
@hdnrch.bsky.social
Sunny Yang @tristancann.bsky.social Chair
@hajoboo.bsky.social
An awesome panel to end #COMPTEXT2025 ! ✍️

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Štěpán Jabůrek @stepanjaburek.bsky.social · Apr 26

Had an amazing time at my first #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna. Happy to see so much cool research, get the chance present our paper and represent a growing team of researchers from the Institute of Political Studies @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz

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Hannah Greber @hannahgreber.bsky.social · Apr 26

My personal highlight of #COMPTEXT2025 😊

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Apr 26

This was a blast! Really enjoyed discussing bias in knowledge production, LLMs and CSS in general with
@krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social!

Thank you @comptext.bsky.social and @compcommlab.bsky.social for providing space for these important topics! 🙌

The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 26

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!

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · Apr 26

#COMPTEXT2025

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Apr 26

Forgot to mention: there are now also other #rstats packages that connect to Ollama like ellmar, tidyllm, ollamar. I still think ours works best for annotation and other tasks, but you might like the syntax or approach of something else more...

Maximilian Weber @max-web.bsky.social · Apr 26

@jbgruber.bsky.social presenting rollama, an R package that brings gLLMs to your local R setup. Exciting possibilities for reproducible computational text analysis! #comptext

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Christian Lendl @dchr.is · Apr 26

Post-Conference-Schnitzel.
#COMPTEXT2025

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Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social · Apr 26

#COMPTEXT was great, thanks to the organizers for putting together such a strong interdisciplinary conference!

Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Apr 26

This was a blast! Really enjoyed discussing bias in knowledge production, LLMs and CSS in general with
@krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social!

Thank you @comptext.bsky.social and @compcommlab.bsky.social for providing space for these important topics! 🙌

The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 26

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!

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · Apr 26

As this amazingly successful #COMPTEXT2025 comes to an end, it’s time for a bit of self-reflection 🔥

Meme based on the ‘Who Killed Hannibal’ format: In the first panel, a person labeled ‘COMPTEXT’ shoots another person labeled ‘THEORY’. In the second panel, ‘COMPTEXT’ looks confused and says, ‘What do you mean, you don’t buy my causal mechanism?’

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · Apr 26

Started at COMPTEXT two years ago, I was very happy to present today the complete models for detecting social
group appeals at #COMPTEXT2025 with @lenamariahuber.bsky.social and @rwillh11.bsky.social

Watch this space for use and access details in the coming weeks!

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · Apr 26

Some statements from the last two days of
#COMPTEXT2025 worth discussing…🧐

🤓 come to the TOP cinema bar tonight to keep the conversation going and to
🥳 party with us after an inspiring conference!

🥂After Drinks & After Thoughts starting at 7pm🥂

@compcommlab.bsky.social
@comptext.bsky.social

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 26

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!

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 26

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!

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 26

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)!

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 26

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.

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