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Gabe Ignatowis an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Texas (UNT), where he has taught since 2007. His research interests are in the areas of sociological theory, text mining and analysis methods, new media, and information policy. Gabe’s current research involves working with computer scientists and statisticians to adapt text mining and topic modeling techniques for social science applications. Gabe has been working with mixed methods of text analysis since the 1990s and has published this work in the following journals: Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Poetics, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. He is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Sociological Forum, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, and Studies in Media and Communication. He has served as the UNT Department of Sociology’s graduate program codirector and undergraduate program director and has been selected as a faculty fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. He is also a cofounder and the CEO of GradTrek, a graduate degree search engine company.

Rada Mihalceais a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, multilingual natural language processing, and computational social sciences. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of the following journals: Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Natural Language Engineering, Research on Language and Computation, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She was a general chair for the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL, 2015) and a program cochair for the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2011) and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2009). She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2008) and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2009). In 2013, she was made an honorary citizen of her hometown of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.