29.1584, Calls: Comp Ling, Ling & Lit, Text/Corpus Ling/Bulgaria

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Subject: 29.1584, Calls: Comp Ling, Ling & Lit, Text/Corpus Ling/Bulgaria

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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:36:21
From: Sandra Kuebler [skuebler at indiana.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities: How Can Linguistics/Computational Linguistics Help with Annotation in DH

Full Title: Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities: How Can Linguistics/Computational Linguistics Help with Annotation in DH 
Short Title: annDH 

Date: 06-Aug-2018 - 10-Aug-2018
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Sandra Kuebler
Meeting Email: anndh18 at googlegroups.com
Web Site: https://anndh18.github.io/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities (annDH): How Can
Linguistics/Computational Linguistics Help with Annotation in DH

Workshop at ESSLLI 2018 (http://esslli2018.folli.info/)
Sofia, Bulgaria
August 6-10, 2018
Webpage: https://anndh18.github.io/

Linguistic annotation is one of the core interfaces between linguistics and
computational linguistics. It has also become a central interface between
computational linguistics (CL) and digital humanities (DH). Texts are
preprocessed and annotated, e.g. with parts of speech, for distant reading and
other visualization applications, topic and network analyses, text mining and
question answering for humanist research questions. In these applications the
annotation is a means to an end and mostly invisible to the humanist
researchers.

In this workshop, we will push the boundary of this interface and focus on
annotation beyond the standard linguistic categories, looking at categories
and relations relevant for humanist research questions themselves, such as
metaphors, stereotypes, entities, causation of historical events, narratives,
or philosophical reasoning. In this area, CL cannot necessarily provide tools,
but instead it can provide methodology and best practices. Thus, lessons
learned in linguistic annotation can be repurposed for annotation in DH. This
includes CL support of the epistemological process of developing the
annotation categories themselves, which are often inductively—or
abductively—derived in a hermeneutically cyclic way. Also included in the
scope of the workshop is research on the data types in the digital humanities,
which mostly concern non-canonical language and thus pose challenges for
automated annotation.

Contact:

Email: anndh18 at googlegroups.com

Workshop Chairs:

Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA) 
Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg, Germany)

2nd Call for Papers:

Workshop on Annotation in Digital Humanities (annDH): How Can
Linguistics/Computational Linguistics Help with Annotation in DH

Workshop at ESSLLI 2018 (http://esslli2018.folli.info/)
Sofia, Bulgaria
August 6-10, 2018
Webpage: https://anndh18.github.io/

The conference invites extended abstracts related to themes including but not
limited to:

- Annotation projects on concepts beyond standard linguistic categories such
as metaphors, stereotypes, entities, causation of historical events,
narratives, or philosophical reasoning
- Methodology and best practices from linguistic annotation and evaluation
applicable for DH annotation
- Project descriptions and results that use
POS/syntactic/semantic/pragmatic/sentiment annotation, etc. for DH purposes
such as distant reading or visualization
- Tools that support DH annotation concepts and goals, or tool specifications
(i.e. wishlists: what do we need in terms of annotation tools?)
- Annotation in different epistemological settings: deductive, inductive and
abductive
- Supporting / Defining the hermeneutic process of annotation
- Automatic/semi-automatic/manual linguistic annotation that supports the
hermeneutic process of textual interpretation
- Bridging the gap between qualitative coding and creating re-usable training
data for automatic annotation
- Discussion of data types relevant for DH annotations

Important Dates:

April 25, 2018 submission deadline
May 25, 2018 notification of acceptance
June 30, 2018 camera-ready version due

Deadlines are midnight Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8).

Submissions:

Submissions should report original and unpublished research, overviews of
existing approaches, or empirically supported position statements on topics of
interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the
workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. Where applicable,
they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results.

We invite extended abstracts of 2-4 pages, excluding references. All
submissions are electronic and in PDF format via the EasyChair system and
should follow this year’s LREC stylefiles
(http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/). Reviewing will be
double blind: Information about the author(s) and other identifying
information such as obvious self-references (e.g., “We showed in [12] …”) and
financial or personal acknowledgements should be omitted in the submitted
abstracts whenever feasible.

Extended abstracts may contain a clearly marked appendix and data files to
support claims. While reviewers are urged to consult this extra material for
better comprehension, it is at their discretion whether they do so. Such extra
material should also be anonymized to the extent feasible.

Final papers will be up to 6 pages long, plus references, to allow authors to
address reviewers' comments.

Use the following link for submission:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=anndh18 .

Special Issue:

Depending on number and quality of submissions, and interest of authors, we
plan to edit a special issue of full length papers based on contributions to
the workshop.

Contact:

Email: anndh18 at googlegroups.com

Chairs & Organizers

Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA)
Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg, Germany)

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