16.1838, Calls: Comp Ling/Corpus Ling/USA; Comp Ling/Slovakia

Fri Jun 10 23:19:01 UTC 2005

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-1838. Fri Jun 10 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.1838, Calls: Comp Ling/Corpus Ling/USA; Comp Ling/Slovakia

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Date: 08-Jun-2005
From: Arienne Dwyer < anthlinguist at ku.edu >
Subject: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities 

2)
Date: 08-Jun-2005
From: Alexander Horak < alexh at korpus.juls.savba.sk >
Subject: Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages 

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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:02:45
From: Arienne Dwyer < anthlinguist at ku.edu >
Subject: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities 

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Full Title: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities 
Short Title: DT-Summit 

Date: 28-Sep-2005 - 30-Sep-2005
Location: Charlottesville, VA, United States of America 
Contact Person: Sarah Wells
Meeting Email: digitaltoolssummit at virginia.edu
Web Site: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dtsummit/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Jun-2005 

Meeting Description:

The summit will assess the state of development of digital tools for humanities
research, as well as the effectiveness of the supporting and integrating
cyberinfrastructure. This summit will bring together scholars from diverse
disciplines of the humanities to discuss issues surrounding digital tools and
the underlying cyber-infrastructure that

- Enable new and innovative approaches to humanistic scholarship; 

- Provide students deeper and more sophisticated access to cultural materials,
thus changing how material can be taught and experienced; and 

- Facilitate new forms of collaboration of all those who touch the digital
representation of the human record. 

To attend the summit, please submit a one-page issue paper & bio via e-mail to:
dtsummit at virginia.edu by June 20, 2005

Participation in this summit will be by invitation only and will be restricted
to 35-50 people, depending upon funding support. (We have requested support from
the National Science Foundation.) Those who wish to participate should submit a
short - one page - issue paper that presents one idea or issue that should be
discussed at the summit. An issue paper should not present an individual's own
project: participants will not be asked to present their own research but to
participate in the summit's dialog, bringing the expertise gained from their own
development and use of digital tools for research and education. Each issue
paper should be accompanied by a short (one page or less) biography.

Based on the issue papers submitted, the organizing committee will select a
diverse group of participants from a variety of scholarly fields. Participants
will be asked to read a package of preparatory materials, so as to give everyone
a common starting place for discussion and debate. 

The summit will assess the state of development of digital tools for humanities
research, as well as the effectiveness of the supporting and integrating
cyberinfrastructure. Tools serve many purposes: analysis, creative development
of new material, education, presentation, as well as productivity enhancement.
Text-based tools are perhaps the most widespread and familiar among humanities
scholars, but the summit will address textual and non-textual media (audio,
video, 3-D and 4-D visualization).

In the past, collections of scholarly and creative materials were found mainly
in libraries and museums, and these organizations developed tools for access and
analysis. Today, individuals can export their creative works to a broad
audience. Individuals and small groups of scholars are able to build tailored
collections, as well as digital tools to support those collections, and to make
them widely and inexpensively accessible. Cyberinfrastructure has dramatically
democratized access to materials and resources used by humanities scholars and
students. But it has not brought with it sufficient tailored tools needed to use
those resources in sophisticated ways. It is this phenomenon that gives rise to
the need for this summit.

Digital tools in the humanities are - for the most part - in their infancy. The
summit will address issues that derive from the state of tool design and
development. This includes the proliferation of new data formats; effective
markup language annotation; integration of multiple modes of media; tool
interoperability, especially when tools are shared across multiple disciplines;
open source for shared and evolving tools; tools with low (easily mastered by an
untrained end user) and high (usable only by expert personnel) thresholds of
usability; data mining, representation, and visualization of data in the
geo-spatial framework; measurement; game technology; and simulation.

We seek participants from a broad community spanning such disciplines as
history, anthropology, literature, archaeology, linguistics, classics,
philosophy, and psychology, together with some social scientists and computer
scientists who work with these communities.

Program
The summit will meet from September 28-30, 2005. It will begin on Wednesday
evening, September 28, with a keynote speech and discussion. Discussions will
continue on Thursday and end mid-afternoon Friday. Discussion topics and the
structure of the sessions will be determined based on the issue papers submitted
by participants.

Product
The Organizing Committee will produce a final report, which will give an
overview of the opportunities, challenges and recommendations raised during the
summit sessions. It is our hope that the summit will produce charettes for new
tools as well as recommendations that will attract funding sponsorship, and that
new and existing interdisciplinary collaborations will be facilitated by the
summit to build a more effective community focused on the challenges of
cyberinfrastructure and digital tools.

Support
Participants will be housed at the Darden Business School and in local hotels.
Local meals and lodging will be paid by the summit sponsors. Limited support for
travel costs is available upon request.

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 19:02:50
From: Alexander Horak < alexh at korpus.juls.savba.sk >
Subject: Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages 

Full Title: Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages 
Short Title: Slovko 2005 

Date: 10-Nov-2005 - 12-Nov-2005
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia 
Contact Person: Alexander Horak
Meeting Email: alexh at korpus.juls.savba.sk
Web Site: http://korpus.juls.savba.sk/~slovko 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2005 

Meeting Description:

The seminar will provide a meeting point for people working on various aspects
of the relationship between languages and computers.With this broad thematic
framework in mind, papers are invited describing activities concerning any
Slavic or East European language, as well as those dealing with bi- and
multi-lingual projects involving at least one Slavic or Central European language. 

TOPICS
The topics may include - but are not limited to:
Tools for linguistic text analysis 
Creation and use of language resources
Linguistic components of information systems
Linguistic databases
Speech analysis and synthesis 
Computer-aided translation, localization and lexicography
Computer-aided language learning

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Josef Psutka (University of Western Bohemia, Pilsen) 

PROGRAM COMMITEE
Franti?ek ?ermák (Charles University, Prague)
Jan Haji? (Charles University, Prague)
Vladimír Petkevi? (Charles University, Prague)
Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Brno)
Ivan Kope?ek (Masaryk University, Brno)
Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Tamás Varádi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Marko Tadi? (University of Zagreb, Zagreb)
Milan Rusko (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Slavo Ondrejovi? (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Alexandra Jaro?ová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Peter ?ur?o (University of st. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava)

ORGANIZING COMMITEE
Mária ?imková
Radovan Garabík
Vladimír Benko
Alexander Horák 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
The papers may be presented in any Slavic language as well as in  English. The
language for submitting a paper is English. If you intend to present a paper,
please send an abstract in a plain  text file by June 30, 2005. The deadline for
camera-ready version  of the paper is September 12, 2005. 

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in LaTeX 
format, using the llncs2e document class. Please refer to the 
instructions found on Springer website:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings

Alternatively, if you prefer to work in WYSIWIG environment, you can submit your
article in OpenOffice 1.1 format, with standard  fonts. If you need to use any
special fonts, make sure they are  Truetype fonts with correct unicode table,
and include the font with  your article. As a last resort, authors can submit
their articles  using MS WORD (at least version 97), but they must use the LNCS
 template for WORD, and be aware that the article will be converted  into
OpenOffice, with any eventual loss of formatting being a sole  responsibility of
the author.A PDF or PostScript version with all  fonts embedded should be
enclosed with the paper.

We expect proceedings to be published in 2006. Proceedings from 
the previous seminar Slovko03 will be published prior to the beginning 
of the seminar.

CONFERENCE VENUE
Center for advanced studies
University of Economics
Palisády St. 22
811 06 Bratislava 1, Slovakia 

ACCOMODATION
Center for advanced studies, Palisády 22
2 appartmens available á 1200 SKK (30 Euro)

Center of university services, Konventná 1 (3 minutes from the conference venue)
2-4 bed rooms á 500 SKK (13 Euro)
1 appartment á 1000 SKK (25 Euro)

CONFERENCE FEES
The seminar fee is planned to be 50 Euro (students 20 Euro) and includes one 
copy of the proceedings, refreshment, social event and organizing costs.
The conference fee should be payed before July 30, 2005. After this date 
the conference fee is 50% higher.

Bank transfer to:
Narodna banka Slovenska
Imricha Karvasa 1
813 25 Bratislava
SWIFT Code: NBSB SKBX
Account Number: SK23 8180 0000 0070 0000 6607

REGISTRATION
If you intend to take part in the seminar, please fill in the registration 
form and send it (by e-mail, fax or snail-mail) to the address:

Alexander Horák
Department of Slovak National Corpus
?. ?túr Linguistics Institute
Panská 26, 813 64 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
phone: +421-2-54410304
fax: +421-2-54410307
e-mail: alexh at korpus.juls.savba.sk 

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