Programme – JADT 2026 conference

Programme at a glance

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 Organized by Vincenzo Genova	C15 – Online communities, conflict and harmful discourse	C04 – Institutional, literary and conceptual corpora
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	S02 – Emotional Text Mining Organized by Francesca Greco	C09 – Transformers, embeddings and LLM evaluation	C14 – Political discourse and democratic communication
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	S03 – Embedding-based Approaches to Text Categorization Organized by Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi	C12 – Corporate, finance and market intelligence	C10 – Multimodal, web and urban social media analytics
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 Organized by Orietta Luzi	C08 – Topic modeling, classification and interpretability	C17 – Translation, stylistics and literary variation
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 Organized by Massimo Aria	C16 – Andrea Camilleri and Sellerio corpora	C11 – Science, technology and knowledge networks
13:30 – 15:00	Lunch
15:00 – 16:30	S06 – Text Analysis in Economics Organized by Davide Furceri	C03 – Public, political and media discourse	C02 – French NLP, lexicon and contrastive neology
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30	C01 – Textometry, corpus methods and visualization	C05 – Italian institutional and cultural corpora	C13 – Health, clinical and accessibility text analytics
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 Organized by Antonio Scalia	C06 – Digital tools, annotation and corpus infrastructures	C07 – Statistical methods and pattern extraction
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

Detailed Programme

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Keynote Talks

Christof Schöch

Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Trier, Germany; scientific Co-Director of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH) and co-editor of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). Previously President of DHd and ADHO. His research focuses on computational literary studies and quantitative text analysis.

Guido Vetere

Adjunct Professor at Università Guglielmo Marconi and CEO of ISAGOG. Former manager at IBM Center for Advanced Studies. His work bridges symbolic and neural approaches to AI systems combining generative models and knowledge representation.

Arjuna Tuzzi

Full Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Padua. Her research focuses on statistical analysis of textual data, corpus linguistics, topic modelling, and authorship attribution.

Specialized Sessions

Finance and Textual Analysis

Antonio Scalia

Banca d’Italia – Head of Financial Risk Management Directorate

Advanced Text Analytics for Official Statistics: Methods, Models, and Applications

Orietta Luzi

ISTAT – Director of Methodology and Statistical Process Design

Text Analysis in Economics

Davide Furceri

University of Palermo / International Monetary Fund

GLASS Group: Approaches to Textual Data in the Social Sciences

Vincenzo Genova

University of Palermo

Quantitative Text Analysis Methods for Scientific Literature

Massimo Aria

University of Naples Federico II

Emotional Text Mining

Francesca Greco

University of Udine

Embedding-based Approaches to Text Categorization

Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi

University of Rome “Tor Vergata”