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>> From: "Kraft, Gabriele" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 9 May 2012 10:18:31 GMT+01:00
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: [dariah-all] CfP: First International Workshop on Language Technology for Historical Text(s)
>> 
>> Dear DARIAH colleagues,
>> 
>> We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers for the First
>> International Workshop on Language Technology for Historical Text(s), which
>> will take place on 21 September 2012 at the University of Vienna. The
>> deadline for submissions is 15 June 2012.
>> Please find the full Call for Papers below.
>> 
>> With best wishes,
>> Ele Kraft
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> LThist2012 Workshop, at Konvens 2012
>> http://corpus3.aac.ac.at/LThist2012/
>> Language Technology for Historical Text(s)
>> 
>> MOTIVATION:
>> 
>> The interaction between Human Language Technology (HLT) and Digital
>> Humanities (DH) at large has been the focus of various projects and
>> initiatives during the last years, aiming to bring forward language resources
>> and tools for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage.
>> 
>> Related to this development, the specific focus of LThist 2012 lies on the
>> development of technology and resources required for processing historical
>> texts. Contributors and participants are invited: (i) To compare and, to the
>> extent possible, interchange data, tools, approaches, and standards that make
>> historical texts accessible to automatic processing. In line with the general
>> topic of Konvens2012, specific attention will be paid to the adoption of
>> empirical methods. (ii) To discuss ways and strategies for shaping HLT
>> resources (tools, data and metadata) in ways that are maximally beneficial
>> for researchers in the Humanities.
>> In the workshop, historical texts are understood in two ways: Texts as
>> documents of older forms of languages and linguistic varietes, and texts as
>> documentations of historical content, in variosu domains (like medicine,
>> philopshy, etc.). Therefore the workshop will not only be concerned with
>> questions of collecting, representing, processing and exchanging corpora of
>> historical texts and respective tools, but also with finding ways to
>> correlate linguistic information with data representing extra-linguistic
>> historical context.
>> Topic areas that will be addressed in LThist 2012 comprise (but are not
>> limited to) methods and tools: for processing historical texts making use of
>> rule-based as well as statistical approaches; for building corpora of
>> historical texts and languages; for integrating multimedia and multimodal
>> aspects (text and image) in historical corpora; for building concrete
>> applications and creating concrete infrastructures supporting the
>> collaboration between HLT and DH.
>> 
>> TOPICS (indicative list):
>> 
>> ·    Building corpora of historical text
>> ·    Extraction of lexicographic information from historical texts
>> (eLexicography)
>> ·    Methods and tools for processing of historical corpora - rule-based vs.
>> statistical approaches,  with a particular focus on addressing differences to
>> processing modern corpora, and related implications for the development of
>> respective natural language processing tools
>> ·    Multimedia/modal aspects (text and image) in historical corpora
>> ·    Representational issues, for example inclusion of temporal information
>> in historical corpora and lexicons
>> ·    Interaction with historical and social sciences, inclusion of
>> non-linguistic data in historical corpora and lexicons, and related
>> requirements on knowledge representation
>> ·    Applications in the various fields of Language Technology (HLT) and
>> Digital Humanities  (DH)
>> ·    Interaction and integration of standards in the HLT and DH fields
>> ·    Infrastructures for HLT and DH collaborations
>> 
>> SUBMISSION:
>> 
>> The authors are invited to prepare 2 types of submissions
>>    1. Full papers describing accomplished work (8 pages + references)
>>    2. Short papers on-ongoing work or concrete proposals (4 pages +
>> references)
>> 
>> Submission guidelines: http://www.oegai.at/konvens2012/formatting.shtml
>> 
>> Submission system: ps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lthist2012
>> 
>> IMPORTANT DATES
>> 
>> June 15, 2012: Paper Submission Deadline
>> July 20, 2012: Notification to the Authors
>> August 27, 2012: Camera Ready Versions
>> September 21, 2012: Workshop
>> 
>> ORGANIZERS
>> 
>> Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany & ICLTT-ÖAW, Austria
>> Brigitte Krenn, ÖFAI, Vienna, Austria
>> Karlheinz Mörth, ICLTT-ÖAW, Vienna, Austria
>> 
>> For any questions, please contact Thierry Declerck ([log in to unmask])
>> 
>> 
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> You and/or your colleagues might be also interested in submitting to the main
>> conference. Visit http://www.oegai.at/konvens2012/cfp.shtml for the CFP of
>> Konvens 2012.
>> Gabriele Kraft
>> DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
>> Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH)
>> Papendiek 16
>> D-37073 Göttingen
>> Tel: 0049 551 39 10997
>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>> http://www.dariah.eu
>> 
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