Call For Abstracts

[Milena Dobreva]

 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
       An International Workshop supported by UNESCO

      Text Variety in the Witnesses of Medieval Texts:
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        Study from Co-operative Writing Perspective
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will be held in September 20-24th 1997 in the
vicinity of Sofia, Bulgaria.

The basic aims of the workshop are to serve as a
first forum for discussion on issues in the fields of:

* basic types of variety in the Slavic written tradition;
* existing solutions to modelling variety in the Medieval
  written tradition;
and
* to propose methodological framework for computer modelling of
  variety in Medieval Slavic manuscripts, and especially from
  co-operative writing perspective.

The basic topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
# Types of variety in Medieval texts
# Computer tools for modelling variety
# Types of variety in Medieval Slavic manuscripts
# Orthographic variety
# Lexical variety
# Grammatical variety
# Structural variety
# Macro-structural variety
# Co-operative writing perspective and its applications
  to modelling witnesses of Medieval texts
# Learning from history

Abstracts dedicated to computer modelling of textual variety
not longer than 2 pages are welcome till April 30, 1997.
E-mail submissions are preferred.


Workshop co-ordinator: Milena Dobreva
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 Sofia, BULGARIA
fax: (00359-2) 971 3649
e-mail: dobreva at math.acad.bg;  dobreva at bgearn.acad.bg
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Milena P. Dobreva
Research Fellow
Telecommunications Dept.
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science
bl. 8, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
tel: ++359-2 713 2809, ++359-2 713 2846
fax: ++359-2 971 3649
e-mail: dobreva at math.acad.bg