[Corpora-List] Digital documents and interpretation Conference - Second announcement and call for papers

[Céline Poudat]

International conference and summer school
Albi, July 10-14th 2006

Organized within the framework of the Albi Languages and signification
conferences (CALS)


Digital documents and interpretation

— Corpora in humanities and social sciences

Second announcement

Corpus analysis and building are redefining the practices, or even the
theories of the humanities. As these disciplines are more and more dealing
with digital documents, they have to reconsider their relation to the
empirical. The digitization of scientific texts also involves a reflexive
return to their very development. Do these new ways of accessing documents
generate new forms of knowledge construction?
The new national and international initiatives (e.g. the creation of the
Centre for digital scientific edition of the French CNRS, the TGE Adonis –
very large access equipment special for digital data and documents in the
humanities and social sciences) may be the opportunities to build a federal
project for the humanities and social sciences. Numerous communities have
for a long time gotten involved in thinking on digitization and
computer-assisted analysis: information sciences, but also history,
sociology, linguistics, archaeology, literary studies – non-exhausting
listing of course

Therefore, the aim of the conference is to reinforce links and to encourage
connections between teachers and researchers belonging to these disciplines
and the communities of corpus linguistics and digital documents. Without
much consideration towards ordinary objectivism, the conference will deal
with the philological and hermeneutical problems corpus-based works have to
handle, according to the tasks and the disciplines: for instance, genre and
discourse typologies, description of semantic forms and contents, theme
identification, concept characterization and evolution, form and content
correlations.
On the practical level, the conference will tackle the questions risen by
corpus collecting, building, coding, tagging and processing and digital
edition. Software demonstrations are scheduled, as well as introductions to
issues specific to the concerned disciplines.

Important dates

Paper submissions : authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract
containing references and keywords. Abstracts should be sent as attached
files to LPE2 at ext.jussieu.fr
December 31, 2005: Paper submission deadline
February 1, 2006 : Notification of acceptance
June 1, 2006 : camera-ready copies of accepted papers
Camera-ready copy should not exceed 10 pages (plus abstract). All the
accepted papers will be put online before the conference.
Papers should be submitted in PDF and conform to the guidelines available
from
http://www.revue-texto.net/Redaction/Normes/Consignes.html 

Organization

Initiative committee : François Rastier, Michel Ballabriga, Pierre
Marillaud.
Scientific committee : Etienne Brunet (University of Nice), Michel
Ballabriga (University of Toulouse le Mirail), Kjersti Floettum (University
of Bergen), Andrea Iacovella (CNRS, Cens et TGE Adonis), Ioannis Kanellos
(ENST, Brest), Bénédicte Pincemin (LLI-CNRS, Villetanneuse), François
Rastier (CNRS, Paris), André Salem (University of Paris III), Monique
Slodzian (INALCO), Mathieu Valette (Atilf-CNRS, Nancy), Geoffrey Williams
(University of Bretagne Sud – Lorient).
Organization committee : Carine Duteil (Atilf-Cnrs), Baptiste Foulquié
(University of Toulouse le Mirail), Robert Gauthier (University of Toulouse
le Mirail), Béatrix Marillaud (Cals), Céline Poudat (University of Orléans).

Further information

Information and  pre-registration: CALS : beatrixmarillaud.cals at wanadoo.fr
Conference registration fee : 50 euros ; students : 30 euros
Conference location  : Centre Saint Amarand, 16 rue de la République,
81000, Albi.
Accommodation (limited number of places) : Single room : 20 euros, double :
29 euros (including breakfasts). Lunch : 11 euros (including drinks).
Tourist information office : accueil at albitourisme.com
Conference dates : July 10 – July 14 juillet (five full days).

With the support of UPS TGE Adonis, CPST (University of Toulouse le Mirail)
and Institut Ferdinand de Saussure (France).