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<font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">The
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">
(</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>ALLC</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">)
and the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>Association for Computers
and the Humanities</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">
(</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>ACH</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">)
hereby announce their 2004 joint conference to be held in Göteborg
(Gothenburg), Sweden<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Computing and
Multilingual, Multicultural Heritage<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">16</font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica" size=1><sup>th</sup></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">
Joint Annual Conference of ALLC and ACH<br>
June 11-16, 2004, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden<br><br>
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The joint conference of the
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>Association for Literary and
Linguistic Computing</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">
(</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>ALLC</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">)
and the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>Association for Computers
and the Humanities</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">
(</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>ACH</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">)
is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection
of advanced information technologies and the humanities, annually
attracting a distinguished international community of scholars at the
forefront of their fields. <br><br>
The 2004 conference has two aims. First, we invite papers and
contributions in all areas related to humanities computing and the
application of advanced information technologies in humanities subjects,
including linguistics, literature, cultural and historical studies,
translation studies, media studies and digital collections. Papers on
research and on teaching are both of interest. Papers may report on
new theoretical and methodological advances in any relevant field.
Second, within this context, the conference is expected to address the
increased challenges of multilingualism, an issue manifested by the
further enlargement of Europe and the process of integration of nations
world wide. We thus also encourage papers related to the linguistic and
cultural issues of multilingual communities.<br><br>
It is clear that specialists in humanities computing can help achieve
these aims through individual scientific and educational tasks and joint
projects, as well as by making available their research base through
educational and electronic library resources. We believe that responding
to these new challenges will also have a fertilizing effect on humanities
computing as a whole by opening up new ways and methodologies to enhance
the use of computers and computation in a wide range of humanities
disciplines.<br><br>
The Call for Papers for the 2004 Joint ALLC/ACH Conference will be
published in June 2003. We welcome presentations in English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.<br><br>
Further information on the research and educational activities as well as
on past conferences of the two associations can be found at
<a href="http://www.allc.org/" eudora="autourl">www.allc.org</a> (ALLC)
and <a href="http://www.ach.org/" eudora="autourl">www.ach.org</a>
(ACH). For an overview of the range of topics covered by humanities
computing please refer to the journals of the Associations,
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>Literary and Linguistic
Computing</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">
(<a href="http://www.oup.co.uk/" eudora="autourl">www.oup.co.uk</a>) and
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>Computers and the
Humanities</i></font><font face="Helvetica, Helvetica">
(<a href="http://www.kluweronline.com/" eudora="autourl">www.kluweronline.com</a>).<br><br>
The conference website can be visited at:
<a href="http://www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004" eudora="autourl">www.hum.gu.se/allcach2004<br>
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