Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis: October 3-7, 2005

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Dear Colleagues and Students:

You are cordially invited to the fourth CASTA Symposium, which will be 
held at the University of Alberta,
October 3rd through 7th, 2005.

Titled "CASTA 2005: Digital Technologies: Tools, Methods, Solutions,"  
the event is being supported by a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities 
Research Council)  grant and will
- bring bring together scholars from diverse disciplines, whose work 
shares common approaches in text encoding, knowledge management, and 
digital approaches to scholarly communication
- be a forum for discussion of best practices, and sharing of insights, 
tools and approaches in these fields
- provide hands-on, practical workshop and discussion activities for 
scholars considering or underway with projects of this type.

The event will consists of five discipline specific workshops, 
seminars, and forums during the week.
The participants are five discipline areas that use text technologies.  
Their respective workshops will be as follows:

October 3: Linguistics - exploitation of XML-encoded linguistic corpora
October 4: Anthropology - qualitative research methods in field work
October 5: Information Science - text encoding and qualitative research 
methods
October 6: Digital Editing: digital tools for editing medieval 
manuscripts
October 7: Slavic disciplines - creating a literary / historical 
digital archive, and publishing it online

Each day the activities will be focused around one invited expert whose 
work has explored the challenges and benefits of digital approaches in 
their field.

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (UofA) will be 
especially represented at the fifth workshop, on October 7.  Our 
Distinguished Visiting Speaker will be the linguist, Professor David 
Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh), who is the leading North American 
expert in the digitization of early Slavic texts. The attendant 
workshops on this last day will be of equal interest to Latinists, 
Polonists, Russianists, and Ukrainianists, be they literary scholars or 
historians.

The CASTA team looks forward to your participation!
Natalia Pylypiuk

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Dr. Natalia Pylypiuk, Associate Professor
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies  http://www.mlcs.ca
200 Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E6
voice mail: (780) 492-3498

Canadian Association of Slavists
http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas

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