[Corpora-List] Automated Motif Discovery Workshop, 21 Vienna - Call for Participation

[Piroska Lendvai]

Apologies for cross-posting


::: Call for Participation :::
::: 1st International AMICUS Workshop :::
::: Vienna, 21 Oct 2010 :::
::: http://amicus.uvt.nl/ :::


The project "Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage and Scientific Communication Texts" (AMICUS) aims to bring together researchers on the topic of exploration of cultural heritage data as well as discourse of scholarly communication. Both application areas feature prominently narrative texts, thus they are part of the same important and difficult terrain of creating or assigning semantic markup based on higher-order content agglomerates for advanced access. A key goal for our workshop is to explore innovative ideas and designs which represent parts of an emerging solution to the above puzzle.

The 1st AMICUS workshop is a one-day meeting that will take place on the 21 October 2010 at the Technical University of Vienna, as a satellite event of the "Supporting the Digital Humanities" conference (held at the same venue on 19-20 October). The AMICUS workshop overviews methods and infrastructure related to motifs, facilitating community interaction and cross-fertilisation of research. Primarily based on invited research papers, the workshop will offer a cross-section of ongoing work in the AMICUS and related projects, while research posters are going to be exhibited during walking lunch.

PROGRAMME

Chairman’s opening address 

Keynote lecture: Morphology and Morphogenesis of Folktales and Myths
Pierre Maranda (Université Laval, Québec, Canada)

Beyond Reported History: Strikes That Never Happened
Martha van den Hoven, Antal van den Bosch, Kalliopi Zervanou (Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands)  

Coherence in cognition, Structure in Text: The Role of Coherence Relations in Discourse Structure and Represention
Ted Sanders (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)  

Coffee break

Examples of Formulaity in Narratives and Scientific Communication
Sándor Darányi (University of Borås, Borås, Sweden )    

The Story of Science: A Syntagmatic/Paradigmatic Analysis of Scientific Text
Anita de Waard (Elsevier Labs, Burlington, USA & Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Improving Search Through Event-based Biomedical Text Mining   
Sophia Ananiadou, Paul Thompson, Raheel Nawaz (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)

Walking lunch: Poster session

Corpus Annotation for Narrative Generation Research: A Wish List
Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

An Information Extraction Approach to the Semantic Annotation of Folktales  
Thierry Declerck, Antonia Scheidel (Language Technology Lab, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany)

AutoPropp: Toward the Automatic Markup, Classification, and Annotation of Russian Magic Tales
Scott Malec (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) 

Coffee break

Harvesting Event Chains in Ritual Descriptions Using Frame Semantics
Anette Frank, Niels Reiter (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany) 

OntoMedia: Telling Stories to Your Computer
Faith Lawrence (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland), Michael O. Jewell (University of London, London, UK), Paul Rissen (BBC, London, UK)  

Organic Kinship or Incidental Analogy? Similar Meaning Clusters in and Correspondences Between Folklore Texts and Pieces of Poetry 
László Z Karvalics (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary) 

Granularity Perspectives in Modeling Humanities Concepts
Piroska Lendvai (Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands & Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary)  

Coffee break

Panel discussion 1: Creating an e-Propp Test Collection – Showcasing Cross-Disciplinary Utility 
Panel discussion 2: Motifs and Scientific Communication – Narrative Means 

POSTERS

Semantic Processing of a Hungarian Ethnographic Corpus
Miklos Szoets et al. (Applied Logic Laboratory, Hungary)

Learning Narrative Morphologies from Annotated Folktales
Mark Finlayson (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA)

Event Interpretation: A Step towards Event-Centred Text Mining
Raheel Nawaz, Paul Thompson, Sophia Ananiadou (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK)

Motifs and Characters in Folklore Indices and Russian Folktales
Anna Rafaeva (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

APftML - Augmented Proppian fairy tale Markup Language
Antonia Scheidel and Thierry Declerck (Language Technology Lab, DFKI, Germany)


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Pierre Maranda (Professor Emeritus, Départment d’Anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and awarded the prestigious Canada Council Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities) is Canada’s most revered structural anthropologist and has been a pioneer of computational ethnography over the past forty years. His latest prominent contributions include editing The Double Twist: From Ethnography to Morphodynamics (University of Toronto Press, London, 2001), a scholarly volume addressing and developing further Claude Lévi-Strauss’ methodology of structural analysis of cultural artifacts, and the Oceania Website (http://www.oceanie.org/), an online project he created through Laval University in collaboration with the Musée de la Civilisation and the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec in 2001. The project presents elements of the histories and cultures of the people of Oceania.

VENUE
 
Vienna University of Technology
BOECKLSAAL
Karlsplatz 13, 1st floor
1040 Vienna


REGISTRATION

Attendance is free of charge, but requires registration.
Please feel free to forward this call.


AMICUS workshop organisers

Sándor Darányi, Digital Humanities Research Group, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Boras, Sweden <Sandor.Daranyi at hb.se>
Piroska Lendvai, Language Technology Dept., Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary  <piroska at nytud.hu>

http://amicus.uvt.nl/
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