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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">---- Third Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3) ----</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> -- In memory of father Roberto Busa (1913-2011) --</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The third edition of the Workshop on "Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities" (ACRH-3) will be held on December 12, 2013 at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) (http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submissions are invited for oral presentations and posters (with or without demonstrations) featuring high quality and previously unpublished research on the topics described below. Contributions
should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Proceedings will be published in time for the workshop. The full proceedings of the previous two editions of ACRH are respectively available at www.jlcl.org (ACRH-1) and at http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/crpc/acrh2/ACRH-2_FINAL.pdf
(ACRH-2).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The workshop will be co-located with the Twelfth International Workshop on "Treebanks and Linguistic Theories" (TLT-12), which will be held on December 13-14, 2013 (http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This edition of ACRH will be dedicated to the memory of father Roberto Busa, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth (November 28, 1913). ACRH-3 will devote one special session to father Busa.
This section will feature one introduction and one invited talk, which will be given by the recipient of the 2013 Busa Award, Prof. Willard McCarty (King's College, London, UK).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">MOTIVATION AND AIMS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Research in the Humanities is predominantly text-based. For centuries scholars have studied documents such as historical manuscripts, literary works, legal contracts, diaries of important personalities,
old tax records etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Manual analysis of such documents is still the dominant research paradigm in the Humanities. However, with the advent of the digital age this is increasingly complemented by approaches that utilise
digital resources. More and more corpora are made available in digital form (theatrical plays, contemporary novels, critical literature, literary reviews etc.). This has a potentially profound impact on how research is conducted in the Humanities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Digitised sources can be searched more easily than traditional, paper-based sources, allowing scholars to analyse texts quicker and more systematically. Moreover, digital data can also be (semi-)automatically
mined: important facts, trends and interdependencies can be detected, complex statistics can be calculated and the results can be visualised and presented to the scholars, who can then delve further into the data for verification and deeper analysis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Digitisation encourages empirical research, opening the road for completely new research paradigms that exploit `big data' for humanities research. This has also given rise to Digital Humanities (or
E-Humanities) as a new research area.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Digitisation is only a first step, however. In their raw form, electronic corpora are of limited use to humanities researchers. The true potential of such resources is only unlocked if corpora are
enriched with different layers of linguistic annotation (ranging from morphology to semantics). While corpus annotation can build on a long tradition in (corpus) linguistics and computational linguistics, corpus and computational linguistics on the one side
and the Humanities on the other side have grown apart over the past decades.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The ACRH workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history etc.) and the research community involved
in developing, using and making accessible annotated corpora. We believe that such a collaboration is now needed because, while annotating a corpus from scratch still remains a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, today this is simplified by intensively
exploiting prior experience in the field. Actually, such a interplay is still quite far from being achieved, as a gap still holds between computational linguists (who sometimes do not involve humanists in developing and exploiting annotated corpora for the
Humanities) and humanists (who sometimes just ignore that such corpora do exist and that automatic methods and standards to build them are today available).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Although many corpora that play a relevant role for research in Humanities are today available in digital format, only a few of them are linguistically tagged, while most still lack linguistic tagging
at all. Over the past few years a number of historical annotated corpora have been started, among which are treebanks for Middle, Early Modern and Old English, Early New High German, Medieval Portuguese, Ugaritic, Latin, Ancient Greek and several translations
of the New Testament into Indo-European languages. The experience of these ever-growing set of projects can provide many suggestions on the methodology as well as on the practice of interaction between literary studies, philology and corpus linguistics.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">TOPICS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">To overcome the above mentioned issues, ACRH-3 aims at covering a wide range of topics related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- annotated corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- diachronic, historical and literary annotated corpora</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- use of annotated corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- annotation principles and schemes of corpora for research in the Humanities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- integration of annotated corpora for the Humanities into language resources infrastructures</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- tools for building and accessing annotated corpora for the Humanities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- examples of fruitful collaboration between Computational Linguistics and Humanities in building and exploiting annotated corpora</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">INVITED SPEAKER: Willard McCarty (King's College, London, UK)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Deadlines: always midnight, UTC ('Coordinated Universal Time'), ignoring DST ('Daylight Saving Time'):</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Deadline for paper submission: September 15, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Notification of acceptance: October 18, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Final version of paper: November 17, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Workshop: December 12, 2013</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">We invite to submit full papers describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Papers should not exceed 12 pages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The language of the workshop is English. All papers must be submitted in well-checked English.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers should be submitted in PDF format only. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acrh3. Please, first register at EasyChair
if you do not have an EasyChair account.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The style guidelines follow the specifications required by TLT. They can be found here: http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/StyleGuidelines.html.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Please, note that as reviewing will be double-blind, the papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web-sites, project names etc. revealing the authors' identity.
Furthermore, any self-reference should be avoided. For instance, instead of "We previously showed (Brown, 2001)...", use citations such as "Brown previously showed (Brown, 2001)...". Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Submitted papers can be for oral or poster presentations (with or without demo). There is no difference between the different kinds of presentation both in terms of reviewing process and publication
in the proceedings (the limit of 12 pages holds for both oral and poster presentations).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ORAL PRESENTATION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Francesco Mambrini (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Caroline Sporleder (University of Trier, Germany)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Stefanie Dipper (Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Voula Giouli (Greece)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Iris Hendrickx (Portugal)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Erhard Hinrichs (Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Cerstin Mahlow (Switzerland)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Alexander Mehler (Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Jirí Mírovský (Czech Republic)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Christian-Emil Smith Ore (Norway)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Michael Piotrowski (Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Paul Rayson (UK)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Martin Reynaert (The Netherlands)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Jeff Rydberg Cox (USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Kiril Simov (Bulgaria)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Stefan Sinclair (Canada)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Mark Steedman (UK)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Frank Van Eynde (Belgium)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Martin Wynne (UK)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">LOCAL ORGANIZATION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Petya Osenova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Kiril Simov (IICT-BAS)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Stanislava Kancheva (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Georgi Georgiev (Ontotext)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Borislav Popov (Ontotext)</span></p>
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