JADT 2018: Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data UADT, Journées d'Analyse Statistique des Doonées Textuelles) has been at its 14th edition. This biennial conference has continuously gained importance since its first occurrence in Barcelone (1992), and with the editions of Montpellier (1994), Rome (1996), Nice (1998), Lausanne (2000), Saint-Malo (2002), Louvain-la Neuve (2004), Besançon (2006), Lyon (2008), Rome (2010) Liège (2012), Paris (2014), Nice (2016). Every two years, the JADT conference presented the state of the art concerning theories, problems, methods, algorithms, software and applications in several domains, sharing a quantitative approach to the study of lexical, textual, pragmatic or discursive features of information expressed in natural language. The proceedings of the 2018 Conference collect 114 contributions by 243 scholars from 15 countries spread all over the world. These papers include contributions open to all scholars and researchers working in the field of textual data analysis, ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from information retrieval to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from text mining to content analysis.