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1st CFP Language technology for digital humanities and cutural heritage

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1st CFP Language technology for digital humanities and
cutural heritage

First CALL for PAPERS

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPDigHum2011

Workshop associated with RANLP 2011, 12-16 September 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/start3.php

Following several digitization campaigns during the last years, a large number of printed books, manuscripts and archaeological digital objects have become available through web portals and associated infrastructures to a broader public. These infrastructures enable not only virtual research and easier access to materials independent of their physical place, but also play a major role in the long term preservation and exploration. However, the access to digital materials opens new possibilities of textual research like: synchronous browsing of several materials, extraction of relevant passages for a certain event from different sources, rapid search though thousand pages, categorisation of sources, multilingual retrieval and support, etc.

Methods from Language Technology are therefore highly required in order to ensure extraction of content-related semantic metadata, and analysis of textual materials. There are several initiatives in Europe aiming to foster the application of language technology in humanities (CLARIN, DARIAH). Through such initiatives as well as many other research projects, the awareness of such methods for the humanities has risen considerably. However, there is still enough potential on both sides:

· on one hand, there are still research tracks in the humanities which still do not sufficiently and effectively exploit language technology solutions

· on the other hand, there are many languages, especially historical variants of languages, for which the available tools and resources still have to be developed or adapted to serve the various humanities applications.

The current workshop aims to bring together researchers from humanities and language technologies and foster the above-mentioned directions.

We are looking for submissions of original, unpublished work, related (but not restricted) to:

· language tools and resources for analysis of old textual material or language variants

· (semi-) automatic extraction of content related metadata

· semantic linkage of heterogeneous data within digital libraries

· multilingual applications in digital libraries

· pilot applications in humanities using language technology methods

Papers can be submitted via the workshop submission tool, which will be announced in the second call. Submissions should be between 6 and 8 pages and should conform to the format of the main conference (http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/submissions.php)

Shorter submissions of project demonstrations (4 pages) are also encouraged.

Selected contributions will be considered for publication in an international journal.

Important Dates

· paper submission: 19 June 2011

· notification of acceptance / rejection: 28 July 2011

· final paper submission: 22 August 2011

Programme Committee

Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
David Baumann (Perseus, Tufts University)
Günther Görz (University Erlangen, Germany)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University , Berlin, Germany)
Gábor Proszéky (MorphoLogic, Hungary)
Laurent Romary (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France)
Éric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Manfred Thaler (Cologne University, Germany, Germany)
Tamás Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Nuria Bel (University of Barcelona)
Nicoletta Calzolari (University of Pisa)

Organising Committee

· Stelios Piperidis (ILSP Athens)
spip AT ilsp DOT gr

· Milena Slavcheva (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
milena AT lml DOT bas DOT bg

· Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
cristina DOT vertan AT uni-hamburg DOT de

· Petya Osenova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
petya AT bultreebank DOT org

Posted by: Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca).

Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2012

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Via Humanist.

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:29:20 -0600
From: Michael Ullyot
Subject: Call for Papers: SHARP @ RSA 2012

NB: Topic #3, below, will be of interest to digital humanists.]

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) will sponsor four panels at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., 22-24 March 2012.

Organized by Steven W. May, Anne Lake Prescott and Michael Ullyot, SHARP @ RSA links the RSA with scholars studying the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print.

We invite submissions that consider English and Continental books and manuscripts from 1350 to 1700, within one or more of these four topics:

1. WHEN READERS WRITE: What led manuscript anthologists to copy the texts they did? An enormous volume of transcribed works in prose and verse circulated widely in early modern England and the Continent. What can we learn about contemporary interests and taste from the choices reflected in a given document or documents?

2. DRESSING GENDER IN PRINT: How did printers or editors exploit the gender of an author on their title pages or paratexts? Did they often (or ever) in fact treat male and female writers differently?

3. MANICULES AND THE ‘DIGITAL’ HUMANITIES: What are digital humanists doing now with early modern books and manuscripts? Ann M Blair recently argued that medieval and early modern systems of “managing textual information in an era of exploding publications” are precedents for modern information management systems. Do early reference books, annotations and compilations inform, anticipate, or otherwise influence our computer-assisted thinking?

4. THE INTERSECTION OF MANUSCRIPT AND PRINT: It has become increasingly clear that scribal and print culture were complexly intertwined during the Renaissance. What do we learn about the transmission of texts and contemporary regard for both media from works that appeared in both and authors who published in script and print?

Please send paper titles and abstracts (150 words) and one-paragraph CVs to *each* of the three organizers: < ullyot@ucalgary.ca > and and < steven_may@georgetowncollege.edu > by *Friday, 6 May 2011* (this is earlier than RSA’s own deadline).

For more information on SHARP, see < http://www.sharpweb.org/ >.

For more information on the Renaissance Society of America, see < http://rsa.org/ >. All participants must be members of the RSA by August 2012 or they cannot be included in the programme.

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Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor
Department of English, University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~ullyot/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Poster Session at Kalamazoo – open call for participation

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The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice and the Medieval Academy’s Digital Initiatives Advisory Board are organising a poster session for speakers on digital topics in medieval studies this year at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 12-15. The Poster session will be held on Friday, May 13, at 7:00 pm.

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Wait – what’s a poster session?

The way a poster session works is that all participants have space to set up a poster (and / or a computer if the presentation involves a software demonstration of some sort, and maybe a handout), and people who attend the session are free to walk through and see the posters, and talk to the presenters. There isn’t really a formal presentation, nor a time constraint. In the past when I’ve presented posters I’ve found it very helpful to have a couple of minutes of patter – almost an elevator pitch, just enough to give people an idea of what I’m working on. Some people pass right by; others might spend more time and ask a lot of questions, it just depends. It’s quite a different experience from giving a traditional presentation, much more informal and more personal as well.

OK – Thanks! On with the call.
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This is a meta-session intended for speakers *who have already had a paper accepted at another session at the congress*. Its purpose is to allow for followup, the presentation of additional details or demonstrations, and also simply as a way of letting people catch up on papers they might have missed because of scheduling conflicts. An informal session at the 2009 Congress was extremely well attended, with lots of discussion, questions, and posters.

Posters are welcome on any aspect of the use of digital media, tools, techniques, and principles in medieval studies. The only restriction is that they must be associated with a paper already accepted for presentation at the 2011 Congress. Acceptable posters might share exactly the same focus and the presented paper, or they might focus on the presentation, demonstration, or elaboration of aspects from the presentation that are better suited to the poster format.

If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact the session organisers, Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com), Jim Ginther (james.ginther@gmail.com), or Dan O’Donnell (caedmon@uleth.ca) for further information or inquiries.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Digital Philology – Call for Submissions

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Forwarded from Humanist:

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:37:10 +0100
From: Albert Lloret
Subject: Digital Philology – Call for Submissions

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Call for Submissions

Digital Philology is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of medieval vernacular texts and cultures. Founded by Stephen G. Nichols and Nadia R. Altschul, the journal aims to foster scholarship that crosses disciplines upsetting traditional fields of study, national boundaries, and periodizations. Digital Philology also encourages both applied and theoretical research that engages with the digital humanities and shows why and how digital resources require new questions, new approaches, and yield radical results.

Digital Philology will have two issues per year, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

One of the issues will be open to all submissions, while the other one will be guest-edited and revolve around a thematic axis.

Contributions may take the form of a scholarly essay or focus on the study of a particular manuscript. Articles must be written in English, follow the 3rd edition (2008) of the MLA style manual, and be between 5,000 and 9,000 words in length, including footnotes and list of works cited. Quotations in the main text in languages other than English should appear along with their English translation.
Digital Philology welcomes submissions for the 2012 and 2013 open issues. Inquiries and submissions (as a Word document attachment) should be sent to dph@jhu.edu, addressed to the Editor (Albert Lloret) and Managing Editor (Jeanette Patterson). Digital Philology will also publish reviews of books and digital projects.

Correspondence regarding digital projects and publications for review may be addressed to Timothy Stinson at tlstinson@gmail.com.

Editorial Board

Tracy Adams (Auckland University)
Benjamin Albritton (Stanford University)
Nadia R. Altschul (Johns Hopkins University)
R. Howard Bloch (Yale University)
Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania)
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV) Suzanne Conklin Akbari (University of Toronto)
Lucie Dolezalova (Charles University, Prague)
Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto)
Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University)
Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University)
Sharon Kinoshita (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Joachim Küpper (Freie University of Berlin)
Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia)
Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)
Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
Timothy Stinson (North Carolina State University)
Lori Walters (Florida State University)

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ Symposium…

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Call for Papers:

‘Digital Resources for Palaeography’ One-Day Symposium
5th September 2011, King’s College London

The ‘Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic’ (DigiPal) at the Centre for Computing in Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on digital resources for palaeography.

In recent years, scholars have begun to develop and employ new technologies and computer-based methods for palaeographic research. The aim of the symposium is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects which overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Possible topics could include:

• Project reports and/or demonstrations
• Palaeographical method; ‘Digital’ and ‘Analogue’ palaeography • Quantitative and qualitative approaches
• ‘Scientific’ methods, ‘objectivity’ and the role of evidence in manuscript studies • Visualisation of manuscript evidence and data
• Interface design and querying of palaeographical material

To propose a paper, please send a brief abstract (250 words max) to digipal@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 8th May 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 20th May 2011.