Conference Programme – JADT 2026 conference

All parallel sessions will take place at the conference venue, Complesso Didattico – Building 19, University of Palermo. Rooms are indicated in the table columns: Aula 11, Aula 12, and Aula Multimediale C.

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Time	Aula 11	Aula 12	Aula Multimediale C
08:30	Welcome
09:15	Opening Session Conference Chairs; Head of Department; SIS President; representatives of UNIPA, the Sicilian Region, and the Municipality of Palermo.
10:00 – 11:00	Keynote talk (Aula 11): Arjuna Tuzzi The Analysis of Textual Data at a Crossroads Between Tradition and Transformation: Are Statistics and Statisticians Still Crucial?
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00	S01 – GLASS Group: Approaches to Textual Data in the Social Sciences Chair: Vincenzo Genova Ageing, health and social isolation among older refugees in Italy: an exploratory textual analysis of in-depth interviews Eleonora Miaci, Eralba Cela and Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso Categorizing Authors in Co-Authorship Networks Through Textual Information Analysis: A Comparative Study of Two Scientific Communities Francesco Santelli, Domenico De Stefano, Alice Tontodimamma, Francesco Capone and Luciana Lazzeretti From Keywords to Networks: Analysing Mission Statements with Text Mining Methods Kristijan Breznik Integrating Synthetic and Human Data for Complex Psychosocial Categories in Text Classification Valentina Rizzoli, Alessandro Meneghini and Andrea Sciandra Robust community detection for topic identification in narratives of financial crisis Valeria Policastro, Giuseppe De Luca, Maria Carmela Schisani and Giancarlo Ragozini	C15 – Online communities, conflict and harmful discourse Chair: TBA Engaging in interactions: conflicts and harmony on Wikipedia pages Cyril Bruneau, Delphine Battistelli and Céline Poudat Exploration contrastive de constructions préfabriquées en français et en allemand – les formules de clôture polémiques dans les discussions Wikipédia Alexia Jingand, Céline Poudat and Anja Smith Spherical analysis of communities and AI counter-narratives against online abusive content Jai Jobe, Alex Cucco, Stefania Fensore, Annalina Sarra, Lara Fontanella and Marco Di Marzio Dive Into Anything: A Framework for Wide-Scale Analysis on Reddit Based on a Case Study of Audience Discussions of Sexual Violence On Screen Marceau Hernandez, Léa Andolfi and Virginie Julliard Discours polémiques sur la vaccination sur YouTube : analyse textométrique comparative des vaccins humains et animaux Lucie Loubere	C12 – Corporate, finance and market intelligence Chair: TBA The use of carbon and GHG vocabulary by French banking groups: a comparative study from 2013 to 2024 Benoit Jamet E.A.G.L.E: An LLM-Based Framework for Automated Assessment of Banks’ Explanatory Notes in EU-Wide Stress Testing Christoffer Kok, Anastasios Petropoulos, Javier Arranz Barquero and Alexandros Kouris Assessing Corporate Sustainability Alignment through NLP: From Narrative Disclosure to Actionable ESG Scores Nicolò Biasetton, Luigi Salmaso and Mahir Selek Financial News as Textual Signals: A FinBERT-Based NLP Approach to Tesla Sales Forecasting Francesco Altarocca, Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Roberto Monte and Daniele Pasquini A Reinforcement Learning Meta Controller for Multimodal Stock Selection Using LLM Sentiment Chaher Alzaman Cassandra: an automated AI-based surveillance system to forecast bank distress from financial news Christoffer Kok, Anastasios Petropoulos, Javier Arranz Barquero and Alexandros Kouris
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	S02 – Emotional Text Mining Chair: Francesca Greco Applying Emotional Text Mining to Climate Protest Discourse: A Computational Analysis of Italian Activist Narratives Gabriele Caruso Computational analysis and textual interpretation: Emotional Text Mining in the study of Italian dance discourse Carlotta Bontà Organizational Analysis in Public Administration: between traditional and digital tools for research on public managers Giulia Cecchini Voluntary Return: A Choice, a Socio-Cultural Impact. Simona Rita Coco	C09 – Transformers, embeddings and LLM evaluation Chair: TBA Decoding Self-Attention: How frequency matrices drive representation learning? Laurent Vanni, Dominique Longrée and Damon Mayaffre A KAN-based non-linear factorization for Embedding Layer Compression Oliver Giudice and Anna Russo Russo Beyond ROUGE and BLEU: A Systematic Review of Evaluation Metrics for LLM-Generated Text Nicolò Biasetton, Luigi Salmaso, Mahir Selek and Rosa Arboretti Human perspectives in textual classification models Emiliano del Gobbo, Alex Cucco, Roberta Siciliano and Lara Fontanella Beyond frequency measures: Can contextual embeddings capture meaning change in scientific texts? Jianying Liu, Kim Gerdes and Jean-Marc Deltorn Analyzing the Impact of LLM-Based Augmentation on Document Classification Vittorio Torri and Francesca Ieva	C14 – Political discourse and democratic communication Chair: TBA Constructing Climate Change Discourse in the Digital Public Sphere: A Computational Analysis of Social Representations Michelangelo Misuraca, Maria Spano and Luca D’Aniello Temporal Dynamics of AI News Frames: A Multilayer Network Approach Massimo Aria, Manuel J. Cobo, Luca D’Aniello, Michelangelo Misuraca and Maria Spano Speeches in Austrian Parliament: Simpler and more active when party is in opposition Michaela Nogolová, Michaela Koščová, Ján Mačutek and Radek Čech Historical shifts in partisan language use in US presidential elections: A comparative analysis of televised debates from 2008 to 2024 Nozomu Hamada and Kaori Sugiyama Argumentation Today: Opacity in CFA from a Brazilian Discourse Analysis Perspective Mariana Alves
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	S03 – Embedding-based Approaches to Text Categorization Chair: Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi A Privacy-by-Design Framework for Chatbot Conversation Anonymisation with Hybrid NLP and Bootstrap-Based Risk Assessment Samanta Pietropaoli AI for Automatic Coding at Istat: From Semantic Models to Institutional Governance Massimo Fedeli, Orietta Luzi, Mauro Bruno, Simona Pace and Sara Letardi From Stylometric Patterns to Semantic Spaces: A Multi-Methodological Mapping of Global Corruption Discourse Simona Mercurio and Giancarlo Carbone Is there any AI-generated news in an online newspaper? An AI detection model for authorship attribution. Andrea Sciandra Power Dynamics in Relational Recovery from Severe Mental Illness: A Computational Analysis of Therapeutic Dyad Interviews Safa Yassin, Matilde Trevisani, Arjuna Tuzzi, Elena Faccio, Ludovica Aquili, Michele Rocelli and Stefano Sbalchiero	C04 – Institutional, literary and conceptual corpora Chair: TBA Datation de textes littéraires – Comparaison et interprétation de modèles de classification Baptiste Bohet and Nicole Vincent ADT vs Deep_Learning dans la recherche de l’intertexte : le cas de Jérôme de Stridon – Arianna Rosa Arianna Rosa CEReBRA : une approche guidée par embeddings contextuels et règles d’association pour l’analyse computationnelle de concepts philosophiques Abdoulaye Ouedraogo, Francis Lareau, Ismail Biskri and Jean-Claude Simard Analyse textuelle sur la diversité dans les entreprises canadiennes entre 2019 et 2022 Olivier Greusard, Marc Le Pouliquen and Nadia Tahiri La “contractualisation” de l’université vue par ses acteurs : analyse diachronique d’un corpus de comptes rendus de conseils d’administration Frédérique Sitri, Sascha Diwersy, Etienne Bordes, Hugo Dumoulin and Cyrielle Montrichard	C10 – Multimodal, web and urban social media analytics Chair: TBA A Modular NLP Pipeline for Analyzing Spontaneous Multilingual Reviews in Urban Event Contexts Sandro Stancampiano From Narratives to Decisions: Fuzzy Text Categorization and Interpretable Market Intelligence from Consumer Review Corpora Milena Nikolic, Teodor Kern, Marina Marjanovic and Srdjan Jovkovic BRIDGING THE TOOL GAP IN VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH: SMIQQDA, A FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOLUTION Tiago Joseph, Michaël Stappers and Catherine Bouko User-Generated Content analysis of cycling lanes: exploring spatial and temporal patterns in public acceptance Alessandra D’Alessio, Dario D’Ingiullo, Lara Fontanella and Massimo Aria Multimodal Word–Context Analysis: Integrating Semantic, Emotional, and Visual Context in Political Discourse Silvia Torta, Andrea Simonetti and Michele Tumminello
19:00	Welcome Cocktail Talea – Orto Botanico, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Thursday, 9 July 2026

Time	Aula 11	Aula 12	Aula Multimediale C
09:00 – 10:30	S04 – Advanced Text Analytics for Official Statistics: Methods, Models, and Applications Chair: Orietta Luzi A Methodological Framework for Knowledge Graph Design Using Large Language Models Adriana Fidanza, Raffaella Maria Aracri, Alessio Buonocore and Roberta Radini Exploring User–Chatbot Communication: Methods, Insights, and Channel Differences Samanta Pietropaoli, Salvatore Agrillo, Paola Bosso, Barbara D’Amen and Gabriella Fazzi From textual agreements to structured data: using Large Language Models to enhance Official Statistics on anti-violence networks Elena Catanese, Mauro Bruno, Paolo Pizzo, Giuseppina Muratore and Claudia Villante Semantic Search Approach to Occupation Coding in Official Statistics Giulio Massacci and Mauro Bruno Using AI techniques to support cause of death coding for Official Statistics Angela Pappagallo, Francesco Pugliese, Chiara Orsi, Tania Bracci, Francesco Grippo and Simone Navarra	C08 – Topic modeling, classification and interpretability Chair: TBA Editorial Transitions and Thematic Change in the American Journal of Sociology: A Structural Topic Modeling Analysis Stefano Sbalchiero, Valentina Rizzoli and Arjuna Tuzzi Titles, Abstracts, or Full-Texts? A Comparative Study of LDA and BERTopic Performance across Text Levels Francis Lareau and Christophe Malaterre A Multi-Method Validation Framework for Large-Scale Multilingual Text Analytics Stefano Blando and Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi Transforming UN Internal Audit Reports into Oversight Knowledge: Lexicometric Perspective Li Chen and Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi Comparing textometric approaches: Reinert-style Descending Hierarchical Classification versus probabilistic and neural topic modeling on a web-sourced corpus of French rap lyrics Robin Quillivic, Jules Dilé-Toustou and Pierre Ratinaud	C17 – Translation, stylistics and literary variation Chair: TBA Demonstratives in human and machine translation between English and French Daniel Henkel Beyond Questions: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Interrogatives and Their Responses in Spoken French Yeo Jun Yun, Iris Eshkol-Taravella and Marianne Desmets The French Drama Revolution: Political Economy and Literary Production (1700-1900) Thiago Dumont Oliveira From Lyrics to Values: A Computational–Sociological Analysis of Cultural Change in Italian Popular Music Ciro Clemente De Falco and Emilia Romeo A Computational Authorship Attribution in the Children’s Tales of Oscar and Constance Wilde: The Case of “The Selfish Giant” Liviu P. Dinu, Alina Iacob and Cosmin Ciotloș
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00	Keynote talk (Aula 11): Christof Schöch Open Science in Computational Literary Studies
12:00 – 13:30	S05 – Quantitative Text Analysis Methods for Scientific Literature Chair: Massimo Aria Assessing BERTopic stability on a specialized scientific corpus: seed sensitivity, outlier reduction, and temporal semantic drift Carolina Vasconcelos, Sandro Mendonça and Bruno Damasio Enhancing leader-based community detection in scientific collaboration using publications metadata Geremia Sara and Domenico De Stefano Mapping Communicative Purposes in Academic Discourse: designing an analytic linguistic pattern Alessandra Belfiore, Walter Giordano, Massimo Aria and Corrado Cuccurullo Mapping the Conceptual Landscape of Funded Computer Science Research in Spain Manuel Jesus Cobo Martin, Verónica Duarte Martínez, Luis M. Castillo-Chávez and Jose A. Moral-Munoz Modeling Emotion Constructs in Consumer Reviews: A Word2Vec–ELIta Hybrid Method Combined with PLS-SEM Cosima Valentino	C16 – Andrea Camilleri and Sellerio corpora Chair: TBA A New Investigation for Sellerio Arjuna Tuzzi Camilleri’s Sicilian: From Stopwords To Topic Modelling Vincenzo Giuseppe Genova and Andrea Sciandra Classification of Andrea Camilleri’s works using bottom-up and top-down approaches. Andrea Sciandra and Michele A. Cortelazzo Distinctive Lexical Traits in Andrea Camilleri: A Keyness Measures Analysis of a Corpus of Sellerio Crime Novels Michele A. Cortelazzo, Matilde Trevisani and Arjuna Tuzzi Assunti teorico-metodologici su linguaggio letterario esclusivo e dati testuali Pietro Mazzarisi	C11 – Science, technology and knowledge networks Chair: TBA Language as a Predictor of Scholarly Citation in European Policy Documents Francis Lareau, Jérémie Dion, Louis Renaud-Desjardins, Malvina Barra, Luisa Ripoll-Alberola and François Claveau Mapping the languages of science: a comparative cross-media textual analysis of scientific expertise. Gabriella Punziano, Rosanna Cataldo, Barbara Saracino and Ferdinando Iazzetta Discourse structure across technological maturity levels: a textometric approach Mélusine Caillard and Gaël Lejeune Structuring sectorial knowledge: automated detection of lexical relations Claudia Brunini, Eugenio Concetti and Giampiero D’Alessandro A hybrid rule-based and data-driven pipeline for author name normalization in IRIS institutional repositories Pasquale Pavone, Simone Righi and Sara Colombini Identifying Knowledge Gaps in Textual Networks: A Structural Holes Approach to Literature-Based Discovery Andrej Kastrin, Bojan Cestnik, Alja Nike Kastrin and Nada Lavrač
13:30 – 15:00	Lunch
15:00 – 16:30	S06 – Text Analysis in Economics Chair: Davide Furceri AI Meets Fiscal Policy: Mapping Government Spending Actions Across 64 Countries Davide Furceri BILATERAL CONFLICT RISK AND TRADE: MILITARY WARS, TRADE WARS, AND DIPLOMATIC NOISE Jamel Saadaoui From Fed Speeches to Signals Embedding Central Bank Communication in Macroeconomic Forecasting Angelo Fama’ Global and local effects of Federal Reserve communication: uncertainty and real activity Antonio Pietro Maria Morreale	C03 – Public, political and media discourse Chair: TBA Détection des isotopies du discours présidentiel d’Emmanuel Macron : de la cooccurrence à la self-attention Damon Mayaffre and Laurent Vanni Les formes du futur en planification urbaine. Analyse textométrique des temps verbaux en planification régionale (Île-de-France, 1919-2024) Isabelle Chesneau Investigation de l’évolution des discours médiatiques à propos des réseaux socionumériques à partir de la distance de Labbé et de sa version améliorée Pierre Ratinaud and Brigitte Sebbah Caractériser les commentaires en ligne : les émojis dans la loi « Duplomb » Pascal Marchand and Pierre Ratinaud Étudier les vidéos TikTok : comparaison lexicométrique des plus-values et des limites des retranscriptions automatiques versus les descriptions des vidéos. Panos Tsimpoukis, Lucie Loubere, Nikos Smyrnaios, Pierre Ratinaud and Charlis Papaevangelou	C02 – French NLP, lexicon and contrastive neology Chair: TBA Vers une correction automatique des formes inconnues : application du Masked Language Modeling de CamemBERT au corpus des Cahiers citoyens Sami Guembour, Solomiia Korol and Catherine Dominguès Séjour à l’étranger et développement des marqueurs discursifs en FLE : étude sur corpus chez les apprenants japonophones Kaori Sugiyama Le potentiel lexicographique des néologismes des TIC dans une perspective franco-slovaque : analyse par le biais de Sketch Engine Lucia Rackova Vers un chatbot basé sur la recherche sémantique et le raisonnement à base de règles pour l’optimisation des opérations de la Sécurité Sociale française Wenxiang Zhou, Touria Aït El Mekki, Frédéric Lardeux, Marc Legeay and Jean-Olivier Boesmier L’extraction semi-automatique de termes métaphoriques grâce à la spécificité sémantique : étude appliquée à un corpus français-italien de presse spécialisée dans le domaine de la bijouterie-joaillerie Marius François and Maria Grazia Massimo Utilisation des emprunts à l’anglais de type V-ING en espagnol, français et italien : une étude en diachronie courte basée sur les corpus du web du Wortschatz de Leipzig François Maniez, Maria Belén Villar Diaz and Sidonie Larato
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30	C01 – Textometry, corpus methods and visualization Chair: TBA Articuler méthodes quantitatives et épistémologies critiques en linguistique : enjeux, tensions et perspectives méthodologiques Tiago Joseph A la croisée des disciplines informatique et psychanalytique : une application sémiotique de la méthode Reinert Claire Tissot De la mesure des paragraphes à la classification des visualisations : portée heuristique et démontrative Claude Patricia Tardif De l’analyse de données en cartes : Visualisations géographiques et chronologiques de corpus textuels Jean-Marc Leblanc, Anne-Lise Humain-Lamoure and Marie Pérès-Leblanc Etude des cooccurrences du verbe Dire dans un corpus d’entretiens à propos d’un événement traumatique Anna Colli, Delphine Battistelli and Marie Chagnoux Europarser: exploiter de larges corpus de presse Marceau Hernandez, Gaël Lejeune, Félix Alié, Émile Rebours and Julien Bezançon	C05 – Italian institutional and cultural corpora Chair: TBA La sfida del lavoro da remoto. Analisi di focus group a responsabili delle risorse umane Francesca della Ratta Un’analisi testuale dei discorsi parlamentari italiani Matteo Farnè and Marco Nannetti A Multilevel Analysis of Italy’s Three-Year School Planning Documents Using a Lexical and Distributional-Semantic Framework Pasquale Pavone, Maria Teresa Sagri, Elettra Morini and Eniko Tolvay The Lexical Construction of Women’s `Image’: Party Specificity and Gender Asymmetry in Italy’s Constituent Assembly Francesca Aulino, Rosario D’Agata, Domenico De Stefano and Amin Gino Fabbrucci Barbagli Perceptions of Emilia-Romagna: a cross-linguistic analysis of keywords in English and French travel literature Rita Gramellini and Daniel Henkel	C13 – Health, clinical and accessibility text analytics Chair: TBA Automated Clinical Coding with Large Language Models Irene Siragusa, Marco Speciale, Alessandro Albano, Roberto Pirrone and Antonella Plaia Living with osteoporosis across contexts: a lexicometric comparison of Italian and Spanish narratives Chiara Tedesco, Ercole Vellone, Rosaria Alvaro, Gianluca Pucciarelli, Vicente Bernalte-Martì and Mariachiara Figura Self-care behaviours in people with osteoporosis: a multidimensional analysis of textual data Chiara Tedesco, Ercole Vellone, Rosaria Alvaro, Gianluca Pucciarelli, Vicente Bernalte-Martì and Mariachiara Figura Text Mining Applications in the Evaluation of AIFA Drug Innovativeness Reports in Italy Daniele Pirotta, Andrea Marletta, Carlotta Galeone and Paolo Mariani Characterization of texts written by deaf people through syntactic markers Mireille Esther Gettler Summa, Caroline Bogliotti and Anne Lacheret Dujour
19:45	Social Dinner Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa

Friday, 10 July 2026

Time	Aula 11	Aula 12	Aula Multimediale C
09:30 – 11:00	S07 – Finance and Textual Analysis Chair: Antonio Scalia Web Automatic Investigator (WAI): an Agentic Framework for Regulatory Multimodal Analysis of Web Contents Andrea Coletta, Miriam Corrado, Gabriele De Capoa, Oliver Giudice, Alessandro Maggi, Marco Mori, Anna Russo Russo and Valerio Signore Interpretable Natural Language Concept Bottleneck Models for Default Risk estimation Andrea Conti and Giacomo Morelli Word2Prices: embedding central bank communications for inflation prediction Douglas Araujo, Nikola Bokan, Fabio Alberto Comazzi and Michele Lenza The cyber risk of non-financial firms Francesco Columba, Manuel Cugliari, Marco Orlandi and Federica Vassalli Processing instability and the value of information: from individual noise to common risk Rudraksh Kansal and Taejin Park	C06 – Digital tools, annotation and corpus infrastructures Chair: TBA A Text analysis application: a library-led introductive course open to all University users Deborah Grbac and Valentina Schiariti JADT Anthology: decades of textual data analysis in one corpus. Laurent Vanni ActiveTigger: An open source collaborative text annotation software for computational social sciences Emilien Schultz, Julien Boelaert, Axel Morin, Emma Bonutti D’Agostini, Annina Claesson, Étienne Ollion and Arnault Chatelain ParaTaxe: a Suite of Tools for Processing and Publishing Multi-parallel Corpora Olivier Kraif, Cyrille François, Elnaz Jalilian, Natacha Rimasson Fertin and Pascale Roux Analyse de textualités multiples avec TXM : du texte brut aux éditions TEI, transcriptions synchronisées, traductions alignées et micro-textes Serge Heiden	C07 – Statistical methods and pattern extraction Chair: TBA The UMCC: Usage and Measurement of Connectors in Context. A methodology and interface for measuring the use of connectors in different genres of corpora Corinne Rossari, Claudia Ricci, Linda Sanvido, Jonathan Schaber and Gerold Schneider The Motif Work Bench Pipeline: From Sequential Pattern Mining to Multidimensional Statistics Hugo Dumoulin and Timothée Premat The Moving Border Model: Applying Chronological Specificities to the Tuning of a Time Boundary Bénédicte Pincemin, Céline Guillot-Barbance and Alexei Lavrentiev Validation of Simultaneous Additive Trees in Textual Data Visualization Ludovic Lebart Pulling strings: scalable symbolic methods for Multi-Word Units detection in text corpora Antonio Balvet Estimating the typical-source distribution in imbalanced corpora Aris Xanthos
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30	Keynote talk (Aula 11): Guido Vetere Linguistic Competence and Large Language Models: Extracting Interpretable Lexical Knowledge
12:30 – 12:45	Award Ceremony: 2026 VADISTAT – Per Simona Balbi Young Award
12:45 – 13:00	Closing Ceremony
13:00	Lunch

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