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OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TOOLS FOR PROCESSING CULTURAL HERITAGE
OBJECTS<br>
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mso-outline-level:2;background:white" align="center">26 May
2012, Istanbul, Turkey<br>
(morning session)<br>
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mso-outline-level:3;background:white" align="center">Workshop
associated with LREC 2012 (21-27 May, 2012)<br>
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background:white" align="center"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2012">http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2012</a></p>
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style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;
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.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white">Recently,
the collaboration between the NLP community and the specialists
in various areas of the Humanities has become more efficient and
fruitful due to the common aim of exploring and preserving
cultural heritage data. It is worth mentioning the efforts made
during the digitization campaigns in the last years and within a
series of initiatives in the Digital Humanities, especially in
making Old Manuscripts available through Digital Libraries.</p>
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.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white">Most
parts of these libraries are made available not only to
researchers in a certain Humanities domain (such as, classical
philologists, historians, historical linguists), but also to
common users. This fact has posited new requirements to the
functionalities offered by the Digital Libraries, and thus
imposed the usage of methods from Language Technology for
content analysis and content presentation in a form
understandable to the end user.</p>
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.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white">There
are several challenges related to the above mentioned issues:</p>
<ul>
<li> Lack of adequate training material for real-size
applications: although the Digital Libraries usually cover a
large number of documents, it is difficult to collect a
statistically significant corpus for a period of time in which
the language remained unchanged.</li>
<li>In most cases the language historical variants lack firmly
established syntactic or morphological structures and that
makes the definition of a robust set of rules extremely
difficult. Historical texts often constitute a mixture of
several languages including Latin, Ancient Greek, Slavonic,
etc.</li>
<li>Historical texts contain a great number of abbreviations,
which follow different models.</li>
<li>The conception of the world is somewhat different from ours
(that is, different thinking about the Earth, different views
in medicine, astronomy, etc.), which makes it more difficult
to build the necessary knowledge bases.</li>
</ul>
Having in mind the number of contemporary languages and their
historical variants, it is practically impossible to develop brand
new language resources and tools for processing older texts.
Whenever possible a solution, but at the same time a real
challenge, is to investigate how to adapt existing language
resources and tools, as well as to provide (where necessary)
training material in the form of corpora or lexicons for a certain
period of time in history.
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are looking for submission of original, unpublished work,
related to the following topics:</p>
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<ul>
<li>Language tools and resources for analysis of old textual
material or language variants</li>
<li>Adaptation of LT-tools, developed for modern languages, to
the historical variants of the same languages</li>
<li>Transcription and transliteration problems and solutions</li>
<li>Named Entity recognition for historical texts</li>
<li>Development of dedicated historical corpora and lexica</li>
<li>(Semi-) automatic extraction of content related metadata</li>
<li>Semantic linkage of heterogeneous data within digital
libraries</li>
<li>Word sense disambiguation in old texts</li>
<li>Multilingual issues in historical documents</li>
<li>Evaluation of tools for processing of historical texts</li>
</ul>
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justify; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Submissions
have to be made through the START system of the main LREC 2012
conference at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/CulturalHeritage2012/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/CulturalHeritage2012/</a>
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describing completed work should be no longer than eight pages.
Papers describing work in progress should be between four and
six pages. The demonstration of prototype systems is
particularly encouraged. The authors of papers referring to an
existing prototype will be offered the possibility to
demonstrate the system in a special session.</p>
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should follow the LREC formatting guidelines. Papers will be
reviewed by minimum 3 members of the Programme Committee.</p>
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.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;background:white">When
submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that
have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new
result of their research.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align:
justify; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">For
further information on this new initiative, please refer to: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012</a></p>
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background:white">Important dates<br>
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Deadline for paper submission: 25th February 2012<br>
Notification of acceptance / rejection: 16th March 2012<br>
Submission of final papers: 25th March 2012<br>
Workshop: 26 May
2012<br>
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Programme Committee<br>
<br>
David Baumann (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, USA)<br>
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)<br>
Günther Görz (University Erlangen, Germany)<br>
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)<br>
Piroska Lendvai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)<br>
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University , Berlin, Germany)<br>
Gábor Prószéky (MorphoLogic, Hungary)<br>
Laurent Romary (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France)<br>
Éric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)<br>
Kiril Simov (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)<br>
Manfred Thaler (Cologne University, Germany, Germany)<br>
Tamás Váradi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)<br>
Martin Wynne (University of Oxford)<br>
Kalliopi Zervanou (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands)<br>
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Organisation Committee<br>
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Petya Osenova(Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<br>
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)<br>
Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<br>
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> For any
additional details concerning the workshop, please, contact
Cristina Vertan (cristinaDOTvertanATuni-hamburgDOTde)</p>
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Dr. 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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