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<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">***FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS***</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">---- First Workshop on Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH) ----</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The first edition of the workshop on "Corpus-based Research in the Humanities" (CRH) will be held in Warsaw (Poland) on December 10th 2015 (http://crh4.ipipan.waw.pl/).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">CRH will be co-located with the "Fourteenth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories" (TLT-14), which will be held on December 11th - 12th 2015 (http://tlt14.ipipan.waw.pl/).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The CRH workshop continues the series of workshops previously named "Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities" (ACRH). Three editions of ACRH were held, respectively in 2011 (Heidelberg,
Germany), 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal) and 2013 (Sofia, Bulgaria).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">CRH wants to be a meeting place for both scholars from Computational Linguistics and from the Humanities (especially, Digital Humanities). Although the two research areas share a number of common
topics, there is still limited collaboration between the two communities. Since the empirical evidence provided by corpora plays a central role in both disciplines, we believe that a workshop focussed on the different uses of (different kinds of) corpus data
in the Humanities might represent a valid opportunity to make the two communities meet, discuss and compare their interests, methods and aims.</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">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><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Proceedings will be published in time for the workshop.</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">MOTIVATION AND AIMS</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">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><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">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><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">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><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">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><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">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><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The CRH 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 different kinds of corpora. We believe that such a collaboration is now needed because of the increansingly important role played by the empirical evidence provided by corpora in research in the Humanities. 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 corpora for the Humanities) and humanists (who sometimes just aren't aware that
such corpora do exist and that automatic methods and standards to build and use them are today available).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">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><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">TOPICS</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">To overcome the above mentioned issues, CRH aims at covering a wide range of topics related to the use of corpora for research in the Humanities.</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities (annotation schemes and principles)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- diachronic, historical and literary corpora</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- use of corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- integration of corpora for the Humanities into language resources infrastructures</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- tools for building and accessing corpora for the Humanities</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- examples of fruitful collaboration between Computational Linguistics and Humanities in building and exploiting corpora</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- theoretical aspects of the use of empirical evidence provided by corpora in the Humanities</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">INVITED SPEAKER: Reinhard Foertsch (Universität zu Köln, Germany)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Deadlines: always midnight, UTC ('Coordinated Universal Time'), ignoring DST ('Daylight Saving Time'):</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- Deadline for paper submission: 20 September 2015</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- Notification of acceptance: 1 November 2015</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- Final version of paper: 22 November 2015</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- Workshop: 10 December 2015</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">We invite to submit long abstracts describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 6 pages (references included).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The language of the workshop is English. All abstracts must be submitted in well-checked English.</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format only. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crh2015. Please, first register
at EasyChair if you do not have an EasyChair account.</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The style guidelines follow the specifications required by TLT. They can be found here: http://crh4.ipipan.waw.pl/call-papers/authors-kit/.</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Please, note that as reviewing will be double-blind, the abstract 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 abstract will be reviewed by three members of the
program committee.</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Submitted abstracts 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 6 pages holds for both abstracts intended for oral and poster presentations).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The authors of the accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full version of their paper, which may be extended up to 10 pages (references included).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">ORAL PRESENTATIONS</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">The oral presentations at the workshop will be 30 minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion).</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- Francesco Mambrini (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, Germany)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- Marco Passarotti (Universitą Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">- Caroline Sporleder (University of Trier, Germany)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Monica Berti (Germany)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Federico Boschetti (Italy)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">David Bouvier (Switzerland)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Neil Coffee (USA)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Lonneke van der Plas (Malta)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Dag Haug (Norway)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Neven Jovanovic (Croatia)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Mike Kestemont (Belgium)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">John Lee (Hong Kong)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Alexander Mehler (Germany)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Roland Meyer (Germany)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Willard McCarty (UK)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Tony McEnery (UK)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">John Nerbonne (The Netherlands)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Bruce Robertson (Canada)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Neel Smith (USA)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Uwe Springmann (Germany)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Melissa Terras (UK)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Sara Tonelli (Italy)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Martin Wynne (UK)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">LOCAL ORGANIZATION</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Adam Przepiórkowski (chair)</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Michał Ciesiołka</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Konrad Gołuchowski</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Mateusz Kopeć</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Katarzyna Krasnowska</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Agnieszka Patejuk</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Marcin Woliński</span><br style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace; font-size:11pt">Alina Wróblewska</span><br>
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