Addendum to CFP - Symposium of the Canadian Society for Text Analysis

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

http://tapor.ualberta.ca/CASTA2005

Dear Colleagues and Students,

The CaSTA Symposium (October 3-7, 2005)  is an interdisciplinary
gathering.
Discipline-specific workshops will include the following topics:

Corpora and the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Thus far, no significant digitization of pre-secular East Slavic
texts has been conducted. Special challenges face scholars wishing to
use corpus-based techniques to gain insights into the oeuvre of early-
modern Belarusan and Ukrainian authors who viewed every word as a
potential motto for an emblem, who wrote in Latin and Polish in
addition to Church Slavonic and their respective vernacular
languages, and who went on to make careers in Muscovy where they made
linguistic adjustments for the sake of their new patrons and
audiences. Graduate students are invited to present posters that
report on new and original research, which they have carried out in
any area relating to the design of Slavic corpora, their construction
(xml-encoding, tagging, markup etc.), and the use of corpus tools and
techniques which demonstrate the relevance of corpora to the study of
language, multilingualism, as well as intra- and intertexts.
Proposals to demonstrate new software development relating to the
digitization of Slavic texts, as well as the construction, accessing,
and searching of electronic corpora may also be submitted.

Anthropology and Oral History
Graduate students in anthropology and oral history who are engaged in
field research typically accumulate at least a year's worth of field
notes, photographs, maps, surveys, material collections, and video
and audio recordings of speech and music before returning to their
university base for processing the data.  Management of these diverse
field data findings is being transformed by the use of digital
storage and tagging, transcription and analytical software, and
opportunities for remote access.  New technologies may assist in many
areas, including: facilitating analysis; making the data easily
accessible to research populations and to granting agencies;
providing varying levels of access to collaborators according to the
degree of confidentiality of the material; ensuring secure and stable
storage in central archives and in regionally distributed
repositories; and circulating resulting findings. At the CaSTA
symposium, posters and papers will be encouraged that consider best
practices, insights, and tools that contribute to the management,
distribution and qualitative analysis of the diverse texts generated
in field research.

Corpora in Linguistics: design, construction, and relevance
Mainstream linguistics has not traditionally relied upon corpus-based
techniques for insights into the nature of language. More and more,
however, linguists are relying upon electronic corpora in their
analyses and employing a variety of computer-based techniques to
explore this dimension of language. Graduate students are invited to
present posters which report on new and original research which they
have carried out in any area relating to the design of corpora
(sampling of texts, methods of collection of texts, techniques of
transcription of spoken language), their construction (xml-encoding,
tagging, markup etc.), and the use of corpus tools and techniques
which demonstrate the relevance of corpora to the study of language.
Proposals to demonstrate new software  development relating to
construction, accessing, and searching of electronic corpora may also
be submitted.

Digital Editions
Computer-based editions of the manuscript witnesses of major texts
such as the Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman, and digital
facsimiles such as those of the "Beowulf manuscript" or the
forthcoming "Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript," are changing
the ways in which we study medieval literature as well as the ways in
which we think about editions and the functions that they can serve.
Graduate students who are studying these texts via digital editions,
or developing tools or approaches for such editions, are invited to
submit a proposal that describes or demonstrates their work.

Please remember that 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

Kind regards,

Natalia Pylypiuk
University of Alberta

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