<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The fifth annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be held at Northwestern University on November 21-22, 2010 (Sunday-Monday).</div><div><br></div><div>The tag line for this year's colloquium is "Working with Digital Data: Collaborate, Curate, Analyze, Annotate." This does not exclude a whole lot. Quality will always trump category, but we will be particularly interested in papers or poster sessions about annotation, scholarly crowdsourcing, and challenges of human/computer interaction. How to create better texts from OCR may be a problem in which new forms of human/computer interaction hold particular promise.</div><div><br></div><div>We would welcome submissions from corpus linguists and would have a special interest in papers or poster sessions that address the ways in which the tools, resources, and findings of corpus linguistics are relevant to other disciplines in the humanities. </div><div><br></div><div>The deadline for submissions is August 31, with notification by September 17. We welcome submissions for</div><div><br></div><div>1. Paper presentations (20 minutes)</div><div>2. Poster sessions</div><div>3. Software demonstrations</div><div><br></div><div>Please submit an abstract (no more than 2 pages, please) in either Adobe PDF (preferred) or Word format to <a href="mailto:dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu">dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The colloquium now has its own website at <a href="http://chicagocolloquium.org/">http://chicagocolloquium.org/</a>. It is still under construction but the links to past colloquia are a useful guide to the scope and spirit of this event. </div><div><br></div><div>We will announce the program in the last week of September. There will be no registration fee, but we will require registration (details to be sorted out). </div><div><br></div><div>For questions about the program contact</div><div><br>Martin Mueller<br>Professor of English and Classics<br><a href="mailto:martinmueller@northwestern.edu">martinmueller@northwestern.edu</a><br><br>For questions about registration, logistics and administrative matters contact<br><br>Nathan Mead<br>Coordinator, Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science<br><a href="mailto:n-mead2@northwestern.edu">n-mead2@northwestern.edu</a></div></body></html>