The following team members will act as Panel Chairs:
- Dominika Betakova will chair "Misinformation, Public Perception, and Polarization in Crisis Contexts" (Saturday, 26/Apr/2025; 2:45pm - 4:15pm).
- Hossein Kermani will chair "Digital Authoritarianism and State Control: Strategies of Repression, Surveillance, and Public Manipulation" (Saturday, 26/Apr/2025; 2:45pm - 4:15pm).
- Anna Maria Planitzer will chair "Evaluating and Enhancing LLM Performance for Classification and Annotation" (Saturday, 26/Apr/2025; 11:15am - 12:45pm).
- Daniel Wiesner will chair "Science, Politics, and Policy: Bridging Evidence, Rhetoric, and Action" (Friday, 25/Apr/2025; 3:00pm - 4:30pm).
Furthermore, Dominika Betakova, Hannah Greber, Anna Maria Planitzer, and Daniel Wiesner were part of the organizing committee of this years COMPTEXT Conference.
Members of the POLCOM Research Group will also share their latest findings in the following presentations:
- Pia Pachinger, Anna Maria Planitzer, Sophie Lecheler, Julia Neidhardt, Allan Hanbury, Rebekah Wegener (2025, April 25). A Perspectivist Approach to Content Moderation: Incorporating User Perceptions of Online Norm Violations in Toxicity Detection Models. [Paper presentation]. 7th International COMPTEXT Conference, Vienna.
- Daniel Wiesner, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Sophie Lecheler (2025, April 25). Implemented, Ignored, or Instrumentalized? Using LLMs to Identify the Use of Scientific Evidence in Parliamentary Speeches. [Paper presentation]. 7th International COMPTEXT Conference, Vienna.
- Pia Pachinger, Janis Goldzycher, Anna Maria Planitzer, Wojciech Kusa, Allan Hanbury, Julia Neidhart (2025, April 26). AustroTox: A Dataset for Span-Based Austrian German and English Offensive Language Detection. [Paper presentation]. 7th International COMPTEXT Conference, Vienna.
- Hossein Kermani (2025, April 26). Which GPT? Comparing discourse analysis, BERT and ChatGPT models in automated hate speech detection. [Paper presentation]. 7th International COMPTEXT Conference, Vienna.
