21.434, Calls: Computational Ling/Portugal

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Subject: 21.434, Calls: Computational Ling/Portugal

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Date: 26-Jan-2010
From: Kalliopi Zervanou < kzervanou at yahoo.co.uk >
Subject: ECAI Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
 

	
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From: Kalliopi Zervanou [kzervanou at yahoo.co.uk]
Subject: ECAI Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

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Full Title: ECAI Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social
Sciences, and Humanities 
Short Title: LaTeCH 2010 

Date: 16-Aug-2010 - 20-Aug-2010
Location: Lisbon, Portugal 
Contact Person: Kalliopi Zervanou
Meeting Email: kzervanou at yahoo.co.uk
Web Site: http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-May-2010 

Meeting Description:

ECAI Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and
Humanities (LaTeCH 2010)
http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/index.html

The 4th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences,
and Humanities will be held in conjunction with ECAI 2010, which takes place
from 16-20 August 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal
(http://ecai2010.appia.pt). 

Call for Papers

Submission deadline: 7 May 2010

About the Workshop
With the advent of the digital age, museums, archives, libraries and other
cultural heritage (CH) institutes are gradually moving away from a predominantly
pen-and-paper based collection management; more and more CH institutes are
aiming to make their collections widely accessible to both experts and
laypersons. A first step in this endeavour is the digitisation of existing data.
Several large-scale digitisation efforts have been launched in recent years.

A similar development can also be seen in the 'soft' sciences, such as social
sciences and humanities (SH), where increasing amounts of relevant texts are
being made available in electronic form, either being produced digitally, or
being digitised as part of efforts directed at digitising archival material.

However, information access should not be restricted to simple key-word based
search on digitised data. To truely unlock the knowledge contained in CH and SH
collections, it is necessary to develop novel technologies that support the
information and entertainment needs of individual users.

Techniques from artificial intelligence are particularly well suited to help
users to make the best possible use of these digitised collections. As
information access is often obtained via the (mostly textual) metadata level,
language technology in particular plays an important role. Other areas of AI,
including knowledge representation, multi-modal systems and user modelling, are
also relevant.

Workshop Topics
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on all aspects of
language technology, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge
representation, multi-modal systems, recommender systems, and other neighbouring
fields in NLP and AI applied to cultural heritage (CH), social sciences and
humanities (SH). We also invite contributions from the cultural heritage
institutes themselves in the form of use cases and usage scenarios. We thereby
hope to bring together both communities (NLP/AI and CH/SH) and foster an
exchange of ideas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Automatic error detection and cleaning of digitised data
- Data enrichment and linking
- Adapting existing tools to the CH/SH domain
- Knowledge representation, ontologies, metadata and data models
- Knowledge discovery and text mining
- Machine learning and pattern recognition
- Multi-modal and interactive systems
- Personalisation and recommender systems
- Text simplification, text summarisation, and (hyper)text generation
- Transdisciplinary research on CH and SH data
- User scenarios and use cases

For more details see: http://ilk.uvt.nl/LaTeCH2010/cfp.html

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: May 7, 2010
Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2010
Early registration deadline: June 15, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2010
LaTeCH full-day workshop: August, 2010 (exact date to be confirmed)

Programme Committee
Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
David Bamman, Tufts University, USA
Toine Bogers, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paul Buitelaar, DERI Galway, Ireland
Kate Byrne, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Milena Dobreva, HATII, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ben Hachey, Macquarie University, Australia
Dominik Heckmann, DFKI, Germany
Christer Johansson, University of Bergen, Norway
Jaap Kamps, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Veronique Malaise, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Barbara McGillivray, Università  degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
John McNaught, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
John Nerbonne, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Katerina Pastra, ILSP, Greece
Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo! Research, USA
Georg Rehm, vionto GmbH, Germany
Martin Reynaert, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Svitlana Zinger, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Organisation
Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany
Kalliopi Zervanou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Piroska Lendvai, Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands





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