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font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">Final CALL for PAPERS
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LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
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href="http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPDigHum2011">http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPDigHum2011</a>
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Workshop associated with RANLP 2011, 12-16 September 2011, Hissar,
Bulgaria
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/start3.php">http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/start3.php</a>
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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 through thousand pages, categorisation
of sources, multilingual retrieval and support, etc.
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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).
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Through such initiatives, as well as many other research projects,
the awareness of such methods for the humanities
has risen considerably.
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However, there is still enough potential on both sides:
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* on one hand, there are still research tracks in the humanities
which still do not sufficiently and effectively exploit language
technology solutions
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* on the other hand, there are many languages, especially
historical variants of languages, for which the available
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tools and resources still have to be developed or adapted to serve
the various humanities applications.
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The current workshop aims to bring together researchers from
humanities and language technologies and foster the
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above-mentioned directions.
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We are looking for submissions of original, unpublished work,
related (but not restricted) to:
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* language tools and resources for analysis of old textual
material or language variants
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* (semi-) automatic extraction of content related metadata
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* semantic linkage of heterogeneous data within digital libraries
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* multilingual applications in digital libraries
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* pilot applications in humanities using language technology
methods
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Papers can be submitted via the START system at:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.softconf.com/ranlp11/ltdhch2011/">https://www.softconf.com/ranlp11/ltdhch2011/</a>
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Submissions should be between 6 and 8 pages and should conform to
the format of the main conference.
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Shorter submissions of project demonstrations (4 pages) are also
encouraged.
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Submissions for Demos should not mention authors, but quotation of
own work within the paper is allowed.
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Selected contributions will be considered for publication in an
international journal.
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Important Dates
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* paper submission: 25 June 2011
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* notification of acceptance / rejection: 4 August 2011
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* final paper submission: 26 August 2011
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Programme Committee
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* Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
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* David Baumann (Perseus, Tufts University)
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* Nuria Bel (University of Barcelona, Spain)
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* Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
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* Nicoletta Calzolari (University of Pisa, Italy)
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* Günther Görz (University Erlangen, Germany)
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* Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
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* Fotis Jannidis (University Würzburg, Germany)
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* Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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* Éric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
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* Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
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* Gábor Proszéky (Pázmány Péter Catholic University &
MorphoLogic, Hungary)
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* Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
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* Laurent Romary (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France)
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* Manfred Thaler (Cologne University, Germany)
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* Tamás Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
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* Martin Wynne (University of Oxford, UK)
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Organising Committee
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* Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athens) spip AT ilsp DOT gr
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* Milena Slavcheva (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) milena
AT lml DOT bas DOT bg
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* Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg) cristina DOT vertan AT
uni-hamburg DOT de
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* Petya Osenova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) petya AT
bultreebank DOT org
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Milena Slavcheva
Linguistic Modeling Department
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: +359 2 979 3269
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:milena@lml.bas.bg">milena@lml.bas.bg</a>
Web page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lml.bas.bg/~milena">http://lml.bas.bg/~milena</a>
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