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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>***************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Call
for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Workshop
on Text Mining Applications in the Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Manchester</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>,
18 June 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>in
conjunction with The 4th International Conference on e-Social Science<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>****************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Following our agenda setting workshop in
2006, "Bridging quantitative and qualitative methods for social sciences
using text mining techniques", we invite submissions to this workshop
which will be held at the 4th International Conference on e-Social Science
(http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/) on any topic of current interest in
relation to the application of text mining techniques in the social sciences. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>We especially encourage submissions on
(but not only):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> * The limitations of
current tools for qualitative social science<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> * Emerging
applications of TM for qualitative social science, e.g.,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Frame analysis<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Systematic reviews<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Summarisation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Content analysis <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Sentiment analysis <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> * Text mining tools
and their relevance to qualitative social science, e.g.,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o document clustering and classification <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Named entity recognition for
social sciences<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Lexica, thesauri and ontologies<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>
o Metadata creation for qualitative
data <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> * Creation of
annotated corpora for text mining applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> * Evaluation
methodologies <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'> * Topic identification<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The format of the workshop will consist
of a number of presentations followed by discussion sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Submission deadline: May 23, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Workshop: June 18, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Submission instructions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Potential participants should submit a
one page summary of their interest in the topic of text mining applications in
the social sciences, for example, ongoing research, preliminary results,
application notes or ideas that they would like to explore. Potential
participants should also indicate whether they would like to give a
presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Please email submissions to <a
href="mailto:sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk"
title="blocked::mailto:sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk">sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk</a><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Workshop organisers:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for
Text Mining, University of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Manchester</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social
Science, University of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Manchester</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Eric Atwell, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Leeds</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>John McNaught, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Scott Piao, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Brian Rea</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Andrew Wilson, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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