32.2593, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Online

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Subject: 32.2593, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Online

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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:25:19
From: Joshua Brown [joshua.brown at anu.edu.au]
Subject: Digital Approaches to Multilingual Text Analysis

 
Full Title: Digital Approaches to Multilingual Text Analysis 

Date: 27-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2022
Location: Online, Australia 
Contact Person: Joshua Brown
Meeting Email: joshua.brown at anu.edu.au

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

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

This online symposium aims to bring together professionals and academics to
discuss the complex dynamics of applying digital approaches in multilingual
text analysis.


Call for Papers:

Up until now, use of DH tools and methods have been applied across a variety
of corpora but text-analysis of English language sources has dominated this
field. These approaches are increasingly being used in languages and
linguistics research for non-English corpora. At the same time, the
integration of these tools has seen new research questions and possibilities
emerge, including questions such as “Is there a non-Anglo digital humanities
(DH), and if so, what are its characteristics” (Fiormonte 2016: 438). Recent
studies have begun to examine aspects such as OCR for historical text analysis
and data mining (Hill & Hengchen 2019; Goodman et al. 2018), multilingual
computation analysis (Dombrowski 2020), semantic and sentiment analysis (Daems
et al. 2019) and historical linguistics (Evans 2016), among others. We are
particularly interested in the ways researchers have used digital tools to
examine “big data” from the textual past, and how new tools are being
developed to process multilingual texts.

Proposals are invited for 10 minute papers which seek to address the broad
question of digital approaches to multilingual text analysis. We particularly
welcome scholars who are working in language programmes, and from any area of
linguistics or critical approach. Such approaches may include but are not
limited to: 

- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and/or Handwritten Text Recognition
(HTR) for multilingual texts
- Digital mapping using non-English data
- Issues involved in dealing with non-Latin scripts
- Challenges using NLP for multilingual textual corpora
- Multilingual topic modelling, collocations, vector space analysis, authorial
attribution
- Critical and/or theoretical reflections in digital approaches to multlingual
text analysis

The overall aim is to think about different ways to approach multilingual
textual analysis using tools from DH, and what this might mean for a non-Anglo
digital humanities in the future. 

Please send 250 word abstract (excluding references), name, and affiliation
to: joshua.brown at anu.edu.au and katrina.grant at anu.edu.au by September 30.
Notification of accepted papers will be sent out by October 15. The two-day
symposium will run in 2022, January 27-28. 

Format: Please submit your abstract in .pdf format to the conference
organisers with “Multilingual DH” as your email subject. The conference will
be online via Zoom.

If you have any queries, please contact us
Dr Josh Brown (joshua.brown at anu.edu.au)
Dr Katrina Grant (katrina.grant at anu.edu.au) 

References
Auer, Anita, Moragh Gordon & Mike Olson. 2016. English Urban Vernaculars,
1400-1700: Digitizing Text from Manuscript. In María José López-Couso, Belén
Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez (eds.).
Corpus Linguistics on the Move. Exploring and Understanding English through
Corpora. Leiden: Brill. 21-40. 
Daems, Joke, Thomas D'haeninck, Simon Hengchen, Tecle Zere & Christophe
Verbruggen. 2019. 'Workers of the World'? A Digital Approach to Classify the
International Scope of Belgian Socialist Newspapers, 1885-1940. In: Journal of
European Periodical Studies 4.(1). 99-114.
Dombrowski, Quinn. 2020. Preparing Non-English Texts for Computational
Analysis. In: Modern Languages Open 45.(1). 1-9.
Fiormonte, Domenico. 2016. Toward a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities.
In Matthew K Gold & Lauren F Klein (eds.). Debates in Digital Humanities.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 438-458. 
Goodman, Michael Wayne, Ryan Georgi & Fei Xia. 2018. PDF-to-Text Reanalysis
for Linguistic Data Mining. The Eleventh International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation. 723-727. Available online at:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/index.html




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