[Corpora-List] extended deadline LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009 workshop

Fri Dec 19 17:12:55 UTC 2008

Sorry for the spamming -
Of course, the deadline extension is meant to be 24 December 2008...

On Dec 19, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Piroska Lendvai wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> After receiving requests for extending the submission deadline for  
> LaTeCH - SHELT&R workshop, we decided to move the deadline to _24  
> December 2009_.
> We apologise for the late decision from those who have already  
> submitted their work. These could, if wished, be revised up until  
> the deadline.
>
>
> Season's greetings,
>
> Lars Borin & Piroska Lendvai
>
>
>
>
> ::: Extended submission deadline: _24 December 2009_  :::
>
>
>
> EACL workshop 'LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009':
> Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social  
> Sciences, Humanities, and Education
>
> http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech09
>
> Co-located with The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the  
> Association for Computational Linguistics
> 30 March 2009
> Athens, Greece
>
> Scope and Topics
>
> Recent years have seen a growing interest in the application of  
> language technology tools and resources to text-based research in  
> Social sciences, Humanities and Education (SHE).  Likewise, large  
> scale digitisation projects are currently underway to make  
> collections of cultural heritage (CH) stored in museums, archives,  
> and libraries around the world more accessible, where it is  
> desirable to develop powerful tools that enable annotating,  
> structuring, enriching, searching, linking, and mining the digitised  
> data. Language technology has an important role to play in these  
> processes, even for collections which are primarily non-textual,  
> since text is the pervasive medium used for metadata.
>
> At the same time, the CH and SHE domains pose special challenges for  
> the NLP community, such as the use of historic or non-standard  
> language (ellipsis, OCR or transcription errors, linguistic  
> variation, and the mixed use of languages), the interplay between  
> textual form and content, as well as the necessity to deal with data  
> from various media. Textual data from CH and SHE are typically  
> multifunctional, which allows for transdisciplinary research,   
> promoting the development of automatic creation and extension of  
> controlled vocabularies and information exchange standards. The CH  
> and SHE domains therefore constitute an interesting and challenging  
> testbed for the robustness of existing language technology.
>
> The workshop, a continuation of LaTeCH-07 (Prague, Czech Republic)  
> and LaTeCH-08 (Marrakech, Morocco) aims to foster interaction  
> between researchers working on all aspects of language technology  
> applied to CH and SHE domains, and experts from institutions who are  
> testing deployed technologies and formulating improved use cases.
>
> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
>
>  * Adapting existing NLP tools to the CH and SHE domains: machine  
> learning and semantic web technologies
>  * Automatic error detection and cleaning
>  * Complex annotation tools and interfaces
>  * Dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or non- 
> contemporary use of language
>  * Knowledge discovery from CH and SHE data
>  * Knowledge representation in CH and SHE
>  * Linking and retrieving information from different sources, media,  
> and domains
>  * Ontologies, data models, taxonomies: automatic induction and  
> standardisation
>  * Representing CH and SHE data to different audiences:  
> personalisation, text simplification, text summarisation,  
> (hyper)text generation
>  * Transdisciplinary research on CH and SHE data
>  * User scenarios and use cases.
>
>
> Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished work  
> in the topic area of the workshop. Papers should present completed  
> work, not exceeding 8 pages.  All submissions are to be formatted  
> using the EACL 2009 stylefiles.
>
> Papers should be submitted electronically, no later than Friday 19  
> December, 2008 via the START website: https://www.softconf.com/eacl09/ltr-cshe/
> The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF.
>
> The reviewing process will be blind; thus papers should not include  
> the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web sites,  
> project names etc. revealing the authors' identity. Each submission  
> will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.  
> Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
>
>
> Important dates
>
> 24 December, 2008 - Deadline for paper submission
> 30 January, 2009 - Notification of acceptance
> 12 February, 2009 - Camera-ready copies due
> 30 March, 2009 - LaTeCH-SHELT&R 2009 workshop held at EACL-09
>
>
>
> Programme Committee
>
> Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business,  
> Greece
> Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
> David Bamman, Perseus, USA
> Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
> Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, Netherlands
> Andrea Bozzi, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy
> Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
> Kate Byrne, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
> Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA
> Paul Clough, Sheffield University, UK
> Milena P. Dobreva, CDLR, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
> Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
> Matthew James Driscoll, Copenhagen University, Denmark
> Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, Netherlands
> Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Madrid, Spain
> Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
> Ben Hachey, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
> Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany
> Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
> Christer Johansson, University of Bergen, Norway
> Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
> Piroska Lendvai, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
> Christina Lioma, University of Leuven, Belgium
> Veronique Malaisé, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> Steven van der Mije, Trezorix, The Netherlands
> John Nerbonne, Groningen University, The Netherlands
> Marco Pennacchiotti, Saarland University/Yahoo! Research, Germany
> Georg Rehm, Tübingen University, Germany
> Martin Reynaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
> Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta
> Maria Simi, University of Pisa, Italy
> Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany
> Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
> Andreas Witt,  Tübingen University, Germany
> Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
> Svitlana Zinger, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
>
>
> Organising Committee
>
> Lars Borin (Co-chair), University of Gothenburg, Sweden
> Piroska Lendvai (Co-chair), Tilburg University, The Netherlands
> Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
> Martin Reynaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
> Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany
>
>
>
> Contact
>
> Piroska Lendvai
> Dept. of Communication and Information Sciences
> Tilburg University
> The Netherlands
> p.lendvai (at) uvt.nl
>
>
> Lars Borin
> Språkbanken • Språkdata
> Department of Swedish Language
> University of Gothenburg
> Sweden
> lars.borin (at) svenska.gu.se
>
>
> Workshop website
>
> http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech09
>
>
>
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