TextXD Cancellation

Letter from Organizing Committee

Dear TextXD enthusiasts,

We are sorry to inform you that, in light of the ongoing UAW strike at the University of California, we have decided to cancel TextXD 2022, which was to take place on the UC Berkeley campus Dec 5-7.

As you may have heard, for the past two plus weeks, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and academic researchers at the University of California have been on strike to ensure that they are paid fairly and in accordance with the costs of living in California. The organizing committee of TextXD 2022 strongly believes that a living wage is owed to the thousands of people who keep many aspects of the University running on a daily basis. A considerable number of our presenters, participants, and co-organizers are students, post-docs, and academic researchers themselves; they know first-hand about the anxieties of increasing costs of living and the challenges of doing productive work in an economically challenging environment.

Today it seems that there is a good chance that the strike will continue into the week of Dec 5th. We do not want to hold the conference while the strike is on in the context of this struggle; similarly, we would not want to ask you to cross a picket line. For all of us, this is a sad decision, but we feel it is the right decision.

We recognize that many of you have incurred costs, including those for air travel. We hope that you will be able to get those costs refunded or at least credited to your travel account. Unfortunately, at this time, the TextXD committee does not have funds that we can commit for reimbursement of these expenditures. If you need an official letter of cancellation, we would be happy to provide such a letter.

That said, if you enrolled and paid your fees, those fees will be returned. At this point we do not know what the future of TextXD will look like, whether it will be virtual or in-person, but we promise you’ll be hearing more from us down the road.

Yours sincerely,

The TextXD 2022 Organizing Committee:

  • Niek Veldhuis (chair) - Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Ilya Akdemir - School of Law
  • Isaac Dalke - Sociology
  • Heather A. Haveman - Sociology & Haas School of Business
  • Ciera Martinez - BIDS
  • Timothy Tangherlini - Scandinavian Program
  • Maryam Vareth - BIDS & Innovate For Health
  • Text Analysis Across Domains Conference (TextXD)

    TextXD brings together an interdisciplinary group of practitioners, researchers, learners, and entrepreneurs who work with text as a primary source of data, and who use computational text analysis in a wide range of disciplines. Every year, this 3-day conference features tutorials, invited speakers, panel discussions, and exciting research talks spanning theory, applications, and tools. We strive to bring together the scientists from different fields who normally wouldn’t cross paths to share their expertise, knowledge, perspectives, problems and solutions with each other. We provide an inclusive platform to learn, connect, share ideas, and develop collaboations.

    Most Recent Past Programs

    2020 2019 2018
    Tickets for our 2022 conference go on sale starting July 6, 2022

    Meet top NLP experts and frontiers in a unique 3-days experience.

    Get ticket

    Global Community

    Join a cross-disciplinary community of text processing experts from academia, research, and industry.

    Global Learning

    Learn from experts and one another, through tutorials, and collaborative work sessions.

    Global Research

    Build deep understanding of advanced text processing data, algorithms, and software.

    Global Innovation

    Great Innovation almost never occurs within one field of expertise, but is almost invariably the product of synthesis across domains

    Organizers

    Organizing Committee

    Below are the NLP and data researchers who are planning TextXD 2022

    niek

    Niek Veldhuis

    Professor of Assyriology

    Heather Haveman

    Heather Haveman

    Professor of Sociology and Business

    Tim

    Tim Tangherlini

    Professor of Folklore

    maryam

    Maryam Vareth

    Research Lead of Health and Life Sciences

    Ilya

    Ilya Akdemir

    Graduate Student in School of Law

    niek

    Ciera Martinez

    Research Lead of Biology and Enviromental Science

    niek

    Isaac Dalke

    Graduate Student of Sociology