Summer School

The 7th edition of the IQLA-GIAT International Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data, which will take place in Padua from 8th to 12th September 2025.

Palazzo de Claricini (Dip. FISPPA)
Via M. Cesarotti, 10/12
35123 Padova

The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is a project funded by the University of Padova and directed by Professor Arjuna Tuzzi (University of Padova). It is organized by Interdisciplinary Text Analysis Group (GIAT) in collaboration with the International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA).

The IQLA-GIAT Summer School is characterized by three main elements:

  1. a general part devoted to quantitative linguistics and methods for the analysis of textual data;
  2. a special focus on a relevant methodological issue that has changed over time
    2025: Large Language Models: Does AI Challenge Traditional Methods?
    2023: Language Variation and Change
    2021: Quality of Texts Quality of News
    2019: Data Science and Data Scientists in Humanities and Social Sciences;
    2017: Topic Detection and Authorship Attribution in Elena Ferrante's case-study;
    2015: Measuring Style and Computational Stylistics;
    2013: Measures and Methods in Authorship Attribution
  3. lab-tutorials dedicated to the computer-aided analysis of textual data.

Info: qatd.school@fisppa.it

Sorpreso The call for applications is over! Sorpreso

Lectures and lecturers (provisional program)

  • Adam Pawlowski (University of Wrocław) - Can generative AI write books? Stylometric analysis of AI-generated texts, on the examples of the French-speaking European and African literature (with dr.Tomasz Walkowiak)
  • Fabio Ciotti (University of Rome Tor Vergata) 
  • Emmerich Kelih (University of Vienna) – Quantitative linguistics: current state of the art, challenges and perspectives - How to model language and text data: the impact of linguistics laws
  • Palkó Gábor (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest) 
  • Patrick Juola (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh) 
  • Dimitris Bilianos (Kapodistrian University of Athens) – Getting started with text processing with Python  – An introduction to Sentiment analysis
  • Stefano Ondelli (University of Trieste) – Corpus Design in the age of AI: metholodogical choices and research
  • Floriana Sciumbata (University of Trieste) – Hey AI, are you even listening? Experimenting with promps for better (?) results / Prompt me, maybe? Crafting requests for better (?) results
  • Francesca Gambarotto  (University of Padova) – How is sustainability framed? Data and narrative around the ecological transition
  • Valentina Rizzoli (Sapienza University of Rome) and Alessandro Meneghini (University of Udine) – Working group Labs
  • Ilenia Sanna (University of Padova) – Final assessment


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