CFP - Symposium of the Canadian Society for Text Analysis

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

http://tapor.ualberta.ca/CASTA2005

Dear Colleagues and Graduate Students:

The fourth annual CaSTA Symposium will be held at the University of  
Alberta October 3rd through 7th, 2005.
The event will:
- bring together scholars from diverse disciplines, whose work shares  
common approaches in text encoding, knowledge management, and digital  
approaches to scholarly communication
- be a forum for discussion of best practices, and sharing of  
insights, tools and approaches in these fields
-  provide hands-on, practical workshop and discussion activities for  
scholars considering or underway with projects of this type

To achieve these goals, we are running a series of discipline- 
specific workshops, seminars, and forums during the week.  Invited  
experts will conduct workshops, lead seminars, and provide personal  
consultation on scholarly projects which use text encoding and text  
transformation technologies.

This is a Call for Presentations for graduate students working in one  
for these disciplines (or related areas):
§       linguistics
§       anthropology
§       information science
§       digital editing
§       scholarly editions on the web

Suitable subjects for presentations include (but are not strictly  
limited to):
text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, natural language processing,  
linguistics, translation studies, literary studies, text analysis,  
digital editions information design in the humanities, including  
visualization, simulation, and modelling

The presentations may be in either one of these formats:
Poster. A poster taking up no more than 6' x 4' (2m x 1.2m).
Demonstration. A demonstration of a computer-based research approach,  
software program, or website.

A scheduled block of time will allocated each day for poster  
presentations; presenters will have an opportunity to discuss their  
work with colleagues and answer questions. The posters will remain on  
display throughout the conference, if the presenter wishes it.  The  
software demonstrations will also be scheduled for a specific time  
period each day; the presenter will have about 15 minutes to make  
their presentation, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and  
comment.  Submissions will be refereed.

Participating graduate students will have the opportunity to sign up  
for workshops, symposia, personal consultations and forums with  
invited experts from a number of fields.

How to submit a proposal
Prepare a short abstract (about 350 - 500 words) which describes your  
research proposal.  Please make clear how your research uses or  
addresses issues relating to text encoding, knowledge management, or  
digital approaches in the humanities. Please send your proposal to:
          CASTA2005 at mail.arts.ualberta.ca
In addition to the abstract, please indicate your technical  
requirements (if you are proposing a software demonstration): are you  
bringing your own computer (what is its make and operating system?);  
do you wish us to provide a computer (Macintosh, PC, or Unix?  
specific operating system required? specific software required? what  
version? CD-ROM or DVD player needed? audio? resolution requirements?)

Deadline
The deadline for submissions is:
          Tuesday, July 12, 2005
We hope to be able to response to the accepted applicants by:
          Thursday, July 28, 2005
For more information, or questions, contact:
          CASTA2005 at mail.arts.ualberta.ca

Financial Support
A small number of travel bursaries are available, which will cover  
the cost of travel to and from Edmonton, for graduate students whose  
proposals are judged to be the best.

Registration
Registration for the conference is available on the CaSTA website:
      http://tapor.ualberta.ca/CASTA2005

Please visit this site regularly for constant updates.

Best wishes,
Natalia Pylypiuk
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies 
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