LThist2012 Workshop, at Konvens 2012
http://corpus3.aac.ac.at/LThist2012/
Language Technology for Historical Text(s)

MOTIVATION:

The interaction between Human Language Technology (HLT) and Digital Humanities (DH) at large has been the focus of various projects and initiatives during the last years, aiming to bring forward language resources and tools for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage.

Related to this development, the specific focus of LThist 2012 lies on the development of technology and resources required for processing historical texts. Contributors and participants are invited: (i) To compare and, to the extent possible, interchange data, tools, approaches, and standards that make historical texts accessible to automatic processing. In line with the general topic of Konvens2012, specific attention will be paid to the adoption of empirical methods. (ii) To discuss ways and strategies for shaping HLT resources (tools, data and metadata) in ways that are maximally beneficial for researchers in the Humanities.
In the workshop, historical texts are understood in two ways: Texts as documents of older forms of languages and linguistic varietes, and texts as documentations of historical content, in variosu domains (like medicine, philopshy, etc.). Therefore the workshop will not only be concerned with questions of collecting, representing, processing and exchanging corpora of historical texts and respective tools, but also with finding ways to correlate linguistic information with data representing extra-linguistic historical context.
Topic areas that will be addressed in LThist 2012 comprise (but are not limited to) methods and tools: for processing historical texts making use of rule-based as well as statistical approaches; for building corpora of historical texts and languages; for integrating multimedia and multimodal aspects (text and image) in historical corpora; for building concrete applications and creating concrete infrastructures supporting the collaboration between HLT and DH.

TOPICS (indicative list):

·    Building corpora of historical text
·    Extraction of lexicographic information from historical texts (eLexicography)
·    Methods and tools for processing of historical corpora – rule-based vs. statistical approaches,  with a particular focus on addressing differences to processing modern corpora, and related implications for the development of respective natural language processing tools
·    Multimedia/modal aspects (text and image) in historical corpora
·    Representational issues, for example inclusion of temporal information in historical corpora and lexicons
·    Interaction with historical and social sciences, inclusion of non-linguistic data in historical corpora and lexicons, and related requirements on knowledge representation
·    Applications in the various fields of Language Technology (HLT) and Digital Humanities  (DH)
·    Interaction and integration of standards in the HLT and DH fields
·    Infrastructures for HLT and DH collaborations

SUBMISSION:

The authors are invited to prepare 2 types of submissions
    1. Full papers describing accomplished work (8 pages + references)
    2. Short papers on-ongoing work or concrete proposals (4 pages + references)

Submission guidelines: http://www.oegai.at/konvens2012/formatting.shtml

Submission system: ps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lthist2012

IMPORTANT DATES

June 15, 2012: Paper Submission Deadline
July 20, 2012: Notification to the Authors
August 27, 2012: Camera Ready Versions
September 21, 2012: Workshop

ORGANIZERS

Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Germany & ICLTT-ÖAW, Austria
Brigitte Krenn, ÖFAI, Vienna, Austria
Karlheinz Mörth, ICLTT-ÖAW, Vienna, Austria

For any questions, please contact Thierry Declerck (declerck@dfki.de)