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Welcome to the Section on Text Analysis

American Statistical Association

STA has four goals:

  1. Research into new methodology for text analysis, sentiment analysis, and related areas.

  2. Application of text analytics to high impact problems that benefit the world.
  3. Creation of a community of scholarship of those who have an active interest in the areas of text analysis, text mining, natural language processing, and related areas of research at their intersection with statistics to teach best practices and to ensure ethical conduct  in matters pertaining to text analysis.
  4. Increased awareness of statistical community in tools and methods of text analysis, promote text analysis as an integral part of modern statistics education, and involve statisticians in research in text analysis.

Event Announcement

The ASA’s Section on Text Analysis invites students to compete for a prize in its annual JSM poster competition. A prize of $300 will be awarded to the top entry.

JSM posters that exhibit research into new methodologies for text analysis or the application of text analytics to high-impact problems benefiting the world are highly encouraged. In particular, posters that align with the JSM 2025 theme “Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society” are especially welcomed.

Contest participants must be part of a poster presentation session at JSM and notify the section of their interest in the competition by emailing their abstract and session number to Wendy (wendy.l.martinez@census.gov) or Qiuyi (qiuyi.wu@duke.edu) by July 18, 2025. The posters will be judged at JSM, with the announcement of the winner made at the conference.

 

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