30.3939, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3939. Fri Oct 18 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3939, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 04:05:49
From: Christine Grillborzer [elmanuscript2020 at slavistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: Textual Heritage and Information Technologies - El’Manuscript-2020

 
Full Title: Textual Heritage and Information Technologies - El’Manuscript-2020 

Date: 13-Sep-2020 - 17-Sep-2020
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Christine Grillborzer
Meeting Email: elmanuscript2020 at slavistik.uni-freiburg.de
Web Site: http://elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

El’Manuscript-2020 is the eighth in a series of biennial international
conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” that
brings together linguists, specialists in historical source criticism, IT
specialists, and others involved in publishing and studying our textual
heritage. Along with the lectures, workshops will be part of the conference,
which will allow practitioners to become familiar with various technologies,
approaches and methods for working with manuscripts.

Conference dates: 13-17 September 2020
Venue: University of Freiburg
Postal Address: Slavisches Seminar, Werthmannstr. 14, 79098 Freiburg, Germany
Organization Committee Chair: Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus, Prof. Dr. Viktor A.
Baranov, Prof. Dr. Heinz Miklas, Prof. Dr. Aleksandr M. Moldovan

Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2020
Registration opens May 1 and ends June 30 2020. 
Registration fee: The organisation committee is making every effort to keep
the registration fee for the conference to a minimum. The precise fee will be
announced by January 2020.
Scholarships: A limited number of (partial) scholarships for participants from
non-Western countries will be available. We will circulate information on how
to apply for these scholarships in due course.


Call for Papers:

First Call for Papers
We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2020
international conference on the creation and development of information
systems for storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of
medieval and early modern handwritten and printed texts and documentary
records. Any person involved in the creation or application of these
resources—including researchers; instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and
archives; programmers, and undergraduate and graduate students—is welcome to
participate.
 
The working language of the conference is English. In the philological
sections, talks in Russian or other Slavic languages are welcome, but should
be accompanied by slides in English. Papers presented at the conference will
be published in a volume of proceedings and on the textualheritage.org
website.

Conference Topics:

1. The physical document - Material and technology 
- Codicology
- Instrumental analysis 
- Visual observation of documents 
- Recognition of relevant features of historic book binding techniques
- Water mark data base
- DNA analysis
- Conservation, preservation, storage conditions
- ...
2. The script - Recognition and analysis
- Palaeography
- Photographing
- Visualization
- Digitization
- Handwritten Text Recognition, Optical Character Recognition
- ...
3. The text - its processing and presentation
- Textology and textual criticism
- Digital editions
- Digital publishing
- Text markup formats
- Lemmatization and morphological markup
- ...
4. Beyond document, script, and text - analytics and interpretation
- Digital libraries and databases
- Corpora
- Storage formats and long term storage
- Lexicography
- Data mining and statistics
- Written cultural heritage and Artificial Intelligence 
- Navigation and access
- Web technologies
- Open science
- ...

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts are limited to 200 words and should include the following
information:

- Paper title;
- 5-7 keywords;
- Author’s (authors’) first and last names;
- Affiliation (institution);
- Educational status or degree obtained (student, postgraduate student, PhD,
professor, etc.)

A link for uploading your abstract will be provided on the conference website:
http://www.elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de/wordpress/2019/07/11/hallo-welt/

Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2020
Reviewing: The abstracts submitted to the conference will be peer-reviewed.
The reviewers’ comments will be transmitted to the authors.
Notifications of acceptance by the Program Committee will be sent by email by
the end of April. 
The accepted abstracts will be published before the conference.




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