Computational Models of Narrative (2nd call) -- Literary and Linguistic Computing: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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De: "Mark Finlayson" <markaf at mit.edu>
Data: 04/06/2013 20:17
Assunto: CfP: LLC Special Issue on Computational Models of Narrative (2nd
call)
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2nd Call for Papers
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Special Issue on Computational Models of Narrative
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Literary & Linguistic Computing: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the
Humanities

**Submissions due Friday, September 27, 2013**

Edited by:
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Mark A. Finlayson, MIT, USA (lead editor)
Floris Bex, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Deniz Yuret, Koç University, Turkey

The past fifteen years has seen a resurgence of interest in a formal
understanding and computational applications of the phenomenon of
narrative. Since 1999 there have been more than forty conferences,
workshops, symposia, and other meetings focusing on applying computational
and experimental techniques to understanding, using, and generating
narrative. Researchers across the humanities, social sciences, cognitive
sciences, and computer sciences have turned their attention back to
narrative, and are eager to make progress. With this momentum, the coming
decade promises dramatic advances in the understanding of narrative.

With this growing interest and building momentum in mind, Literary &
Linguistic Computing: the Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
(LLC) invites submission for a special issue on the topic of “Computational
Models of Narrative”.  The issue is so named because we believe that a true
science of narrative must adhere to the principle espoused by Herbert Simon
in his book The Sciences of the Artificial: that without computational
modeling, the science of a complex human phenomenon such as narrative will
never be successful, and that computational models are the proper lingua
franca of the scientific study of narrative. The purview of the issue,
then, is more than just the limited body of effort that directly
incorporates computer simulation: it also includes work from a cognitive,
linguistic, neurobiological, social scientific, and literary point of view.
 The special issue is open to any work where the researchers have
successfully applied their field’s unique insights to narrative in a way
that is compatible with a computational frame of mind. We seek work whose
results are thought out carefully enough, and specified precisely enough,
that they could eventually inform computational modeling of narrative.  As
such, authors should explicitly discuss in their paper how their work could
support or inform computational modeling.

Full papers should not normally exceed 9,000 words. Shorter articles
(containing material of a more general nature) should not exceed 5,000
words and reports on research in progress should not be longer than 3,000
words.  Authors  should review and conform to the following guidelines:

Information for authors: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/**
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Self-archiving policy: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/**access_purchase/self-
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Authors should submit their papers in .doc format (per LLC preferences) to
Mark Finlayson, the lead editor, at markaf at mit.edu by 27th September 2013.
After this initial submission the editors will signal any major problems
with style or content.  Revised versions addressing these concerns will be
due as an online submission to the LLC manuscript system on Friday,
November 22, 2013. When submitting to the LLC online system, authors should
explicitly state in their cover letter to the LLC editor that their paper
is part of this thematic issue. Papers will then be peer-reviewed, and
final decisions will be issued Friday, February 14, 2014.  The final copy,
including all style and content corrections indicated by the editors, will
be due Friday, March 14, 2014.  We expect the issue to appear as either the
2nd or 3rd issue of the 2014 volume. Any questions should be addressed to
Mark Finlayson at markaf at mit.edu.