26.458, Calls: Computational Ling, General Ling, Historical Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/China

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-458. Fri Jan 23 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.458, Calls: Computational Ling, General Ling, Historical Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/China

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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:50:37
From: Kalliopi Zervanou [kzervanou at yahoo.co.uk]
Subject: 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

Full Title: 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities 
Short Title: LaTeCH 2015 

Date: 30-Jul-2015 - 30-Jul-2015
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Kalliopi Zervanou
Meeting Email: k.a.zervanou at uu.nl
Web Site: https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-May-2015 

Meeting Description:

The 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015 which will take place in Beijing, China, July 30.

The LaTeCH workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on developing novel information technology for improved information access to data from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage. Since the formation of SIGHUM (ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities), the LaTeCH workshop is also the venue for the SIGHUM annual research and business meeting.

The workshop is a continuation of LaTeCH 2007 held at ACL, in Prague, Czech Republic, LaTeCH 2008 at LREC, in Marrakech, Morocco, LaTeCH 2009 at EACL, in Athens, Greece, LaTeCH 2010 at ECAI, in Lisbon, Portugal, LaTeCH 2011 at ACL/HLT, in Portland, Oregon, USA, LaTeCH 2012 at EACL, in Avignon, France, LaTeCH 2013 at ACL, in Sofia, Bulgaria and LaTeCH 2014 at EACL in Gothenburg, Sweden.

In the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities there is increasing interest in and demand for NLP methods for semantic annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning, and visualization of both primary and secondary data, which holds even for collections that are primarily non-textual, as text is also the pervasive medium used for metadata.

These domains of application entail new challenges for NLP research, such as noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, multilingual parts within one document, lack of digital semantic resources, or resource-intensive approaches that call for (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or, as a last resort, intense manual effort. Digital libraries still lack tools for content analysis; documents are linked mostly through metadata, and deep semantic annotation is missing.

For this reason, it is of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists, and digital humanities researchers working in and across these domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results.

Call for Papers:

This edition of the LaTeCH workshop is looking for, but not limited to, contributions from the following topics:

- Adapting NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities domains
- Dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language
- Linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains
- Modelling of information and knowledge
- Automatic creation of semantic resources
- Automatic error detection and cleaning
- Complex annotation tools and interfaces
- Discourse and narrative analysis
- Research infrastructure and standardisation efforts
- Text mining and sentiment analysis
- User modeling, recommendation, personalisation

Information for Authors:

Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers presenting completed work, we also invite short papers and system descriptions (demos):

- Long papers should present completed work and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references.
- Short papers/demos can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references.
Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, via the LaTeCH 2015 submission website. For more details, please visit:
https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2015/

Important Dates:

Short & long paper submission deadline: 8 May 2015
Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2015
Camera-ready papers due: 12 June 2015
LaTeCH workshop: 30 July 2015

Organisation:

Kalliopi A. Zervanou, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Marieke van Erp, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Beatrice Alex, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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