Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2020, held during October 15-16, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Moscow, Russia, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 27 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 108 qualified submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: invited papers; natural language processing; computer vision; social network analysis; data analysis and machine learning; theoretical machine learning and optimization; and process mining.