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###2nd CFP: Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA 2022)###
- Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2022
- START submission site: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/LT4HALA/
- Place: co-located with LREC 2022, Marseille, France
- Date: 25 June 2022 (post-conference workshop)
##DESCRIPTION##
LT4HALA 2022 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2022 follows LT4HALA 2020 that was organized in the context of LREC 2020 (proceedings: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2020.lt4hala-1/). Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times.
Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- handling spelling variation;
- detection and correction of OCR errors;
- creation and annotation of digital resources;
- deciphering;
- morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data;
- adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts;
- teaching ancient languages with NLP tools;
- NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics;
- evaluation of NLP tools.
##SHARED TASKS##
LT4HALA 2022 will hosts two shared tasks:
- the second edition of EvaLatin, an evaluation campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. The second edition of EvaLatin will focus on three tasks (i.e. Lemmatization, PoS tagging, and Morphological Feature Identification), each featuring three sub-tasks (i.e. Classical, Cross-Genre, Cross-Time).
- the first edition of EvaHan, the first evaluation campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese. EvaHan first edition has one task (i.e. a joint task of Word Segmentation and POS Tagging).
Training data for both shared tasks are available on the conference website:
- EvaLatin 2022 training data: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2022/EvaLatin#training-data
- EvaHan 2022 training data: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2022/EvaHan#training-data
Test data will be available on the web pages of the two shared tasks at the following URLs:
- EvaLatin 2022 test data (available after March 17th): https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2022/EvaLatin#test-data
- EvaHan 2022 test data (available after March 31st): https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2022/EvaHan#test-data
##SUBMISSIONS##
For the workshop, we invite papers of different types such as experimental papers, reproduction papers, resource papers, position papers, survey papers. Both long and short papers describing original and unpublished work are welcome. Long papers should deal with substantial completed research and/or report on the development of new methodologies. They may consist of up to 8 pages of content plus 2 pages of references. Short papers are instead appropriate for reporting on works in progress or for describing a singular tool or project. They may consist of up to 4 pages of content plus 2 pages of references.
We encourage the authors of papers reporting experimental results to make their results reproducible and the entire process of analysis replicable, by making the data and the tools they used available. The form of the presentation may be oral or poster, whereas in the proceedings there is no difference between the accepted papers. The submission is NOT anonymous. The LREC official format is requested. Each paper will be reviewed but three independent reviewers.
As for EvaLatin and EvaHan, participants will be required to submit a technical report for each task (with all the related sub-tasks) they took part in. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC official format. Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). All participants will have the possibility to present their results at the workshop: we will allocate an oral session and a poster session fully devoted to the shared tasks in the afternoon.
##IMPORTANT DATES##
Workshop
- 8 April 2022: submission due
- 29 April 2022: reviews due
- 3 May 2022: notifications to authors
- 24 May 2022: camera-ready (PDF) due
Shared Tasks - PLEASE NOTE THAT NO EXTENSION IS PLANNED FOR THE SHARED TASKS
EvaLatin
- 20 December 2021: training data available
- Evaluation Window I - Task: Lemmatization
- - 17 March 2022: test data available
- - 23 March 2022 system results due to organizers
- Evaluation Window II - Task: PoS tagging
- - 24 March 2022: test data available
- - 30 March 2022: system results due to organizers
- Evaluation Window III - Task: Features tagging
- - 31 March 2022: test data available
- - 6 April 2022: system results due to organizers
- 26 April 2022: reports due to organizers
- 10 May 2022: short report review deadline
- 24 May 2022: camera ready version of reports due to organizers
EvaHan
- 20 December 2021: training data available
- Evaluation Window
- - 31 March 2022: test data available
- - 6 April 2022: system results due to organizers
- 26 April 2022: reports due to organizers
- 10 May 2022: short report review deadline
- 24 May 2022: camera ready version of reports due to organizers
##Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!##
- Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
- As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2022 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org<http://www.islrn.org>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
##Workshop Organizers##
Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Rachele Sprugnoli, @RSprugnoli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
##Programme Committee##
Marcel Bollmann, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gerlof Bouma, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Flavio M. Cecchini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Harry Diakoff, Alpheios Project, USA
Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Hanne Eckhoff, Oxford University, UK
Margherita Fantoli, University of Leuven, Belgium
Hannes A. Fellner, Universität Wien, Austria
Heidi Jauhiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Neven Jovanovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Timo Korkiakangas, University of Helsinki, Finland
Bin Li, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China
Eleonora Litta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Barbara McGillivray, Turing Institute, UK
Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Saskia Peels, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Sophie Prévost, Laboratoire Lattice, France
Philippe Roelli, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Matteo Romanello, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Halim Sayoud, USTHB University, Algeria
Dongbo Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University, P.R. China
##EvaLatin 2022 Organizers##
Rachele Sprugnoli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Margherita Fantoli, KU Leuven, Belgium
Flavio M. Cecchini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
##EvaHan 2022 Organizers##
Bin Li, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China
Yiguo Yuan, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China
Minxuan Feng, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China
Chao Xu, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China
Dongbo Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University, P.R. China
##Contact##
rachele.sprugnoli[AT]unipr.it<http://unipr.it>
Please, write “LT4HALA” or “EvaLatin” in the subject of your e-mail.
For more information on EvaHan, please write to libin.njnu[AT]gmail.com<http://gmail.com> writing “EvaHan” in the subject of the e-mail.
Follow @ERC_LiLa and the hashtag #LT4HALA2022 on Twitter for updates.
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Textual Heritage and Information Technologies
El’Manuscript-2022
Innsbruck, Austria
5-9 September 2022
https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/elmanuscript2022-slawistik/
We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the
El’Manuscript-2022 international conference on the creation and
development of information systems for storage, description, processing,
analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern hand-written and
printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the
creation or application of these resources —including researchers;
instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and archives; programmers, and
undergraduate and graduate students— is welcome to participate.
El’Manuscript 2022 is the ninth in a series of biennial international
conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies”.
The conferences bring together linguists, specialists in historical
source criticism, IT specialists, and others involved in studying and
publishing our textual heritage. Along with the lectures, a summer
school will be part of the conference, which will allow practitioners to
become familiar with various systems and methods for working with
manuscripts and texts.
The working language of the 2022 conference is English. In the
philological sections talks in Russian are welcome but must be
accompanied by powerpoint slides in English. Accepted abstracts will be
published in print and online before the conference.
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the 2023 volume
of the peer reviewed journal Scripta & e-Scripta and on the
textualheritage.org website.
=== Conference topics ===
1. Science and Philology
- Analysis of writing material (DNA, microbiome, isotopes, etc.)
- Imaging, visualization, and digitisation
- Machine learning and deep learning
- Analysis of water marks, book binding techniques, etc.
- Preservation of written heritage
2. From the Manuscript to the (Digital) Edition
- Handwritten Text Recognition, Optical Character Recognition
- Digital Palaeography
- Textology and textual criticism
- Digital editing and publishing
- Text mark-up formats
- Lemmatisation and morphological mark-up. Databases and Corpora
- Text collections
- Linguistic corpora
- Digital libraries and databases
- Storage formats and long term storage
- Data mining
- Quantitative and statistical analysis
- Navigation and access
- Open access
4. Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Textual Heritage
- Global context and local practices
- Text analysis in DH courses and programs
- Teaching and learning computational linguistics, digital literary
studies, digital editions, etc.
- DH pedagogy: cases, methods, and technologies
=== General Information ===
The conference will be held in a hybrid format. Detailed information
will be announced in due time on the homepage of the conference (see below).
Conference dates: 5–9 September 2022
Venue: Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Innsbruck.
Postal Address: Institut für Slawistik, Universität Innsbruck, Innrain
52, 6020 Innsbruck.
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Viktor A. Baranov, Prof. Dr. Juergen Fuchsbauer,
Prof. Dr. Gernot Howanitz.
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Juergen Fuchsbauer, phone +43 512 507 4226
E-mail: elmanuscript2022-slawistik(a)uibk.ac.at
Conference Website:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/elmanuscript2022-slawistik/
=== Abstract submission ===
Abstracts are limited to 200 words and should be sent in both .DOCX/.ODT
and PDF formats to elmanuscript2022-slawistik(a)uibk.ac.at. The following
information has to be included:
- Paper title;
- 5–10 keywords;
- Author’s / authors’ first and last names;
- Affiliation.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2022.
Reviewing: The abstracts submitted to the conference will be
peer-reviewed. The Programme Committee will reject papers not meeting
the conference themes or quality requirements. The reviewers’ comments
will be transmitted to the authors. Notifications of acceptance will be
sent by email before 15 May 2022. The accepted abstracts will be
published before the conference.
Registration opens 31 May and ends 15 July 2022.
Registration fee: The organisation committee is making every effort to
keep the registration fee for the conference to a minimum. The precise
fee and the preliminary conference programme will be announced by 15 May
2022.
--
Alexei Lavrentiev
Ingénieur de recherche
UMR 5317 IHRIM, CNRS
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Dear Colleagues
Despite the troubled and politically unstable times, the digital medievalist board is discussing specific changes to its organization, and we need your feedback on this matter.
This mail is to inform you that the board is debating changes to the bylaws of our organization. As a subscriber to the dm-list, you are a member of digital medievalist, and we want to hear from you.
The motivation behind the changes to the bylaws are the following:
* We want to stress that digital medievalist is an inclusive and open learned society that holds itself to certain standards and academic rigor.
* For reasons of administration and organization, we propose to alter the terms of the executive board. From our point of view, it is too time-consuming to organize elections every year.
* The excellent subcommittee (formally called postgraduate committee) needs a written foundation; we, therefore, want to add specific bylaws for the committee.
As is laid out in our bylaws, we are obliged to give you a chance to comment on the proposed amendments (and frankly, we are very eager to get your feedback). Feel free to comment directly to the list or send one of the board members a message (https://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/about/executive-board/).
After this call for comments (open for ten days), the executive board will consider the feedback and propose new bylaws. All members of digital medievalist will have a chance to vote on the new bylaws by the end of March/beginning of April (announced through the mailing list).
For your consideration, I attach two PDF documents with
a) a proposition for amendments to the digital medievalist bylaws [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/digital-medievalist-by-laws-9suk]
b) a proposition for new bylaws for the subcommittee [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/bylaws-for-post-graduate-committee-9suk]
Both propositions are also open for comments online (link to a framapad/open document)
I am very much looking forward to your feedback and send best wishes in the name of the executive board,
Tobias
**********************************
Prof. Dr. Tobias Hodel
Universität Bern
Digital Humanities
Walter Benjamin Kolleg
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern
dh.unibe.ch
Neu: tobias.hodel(a)unibe.ch<https://mailto:tobias.hodel@unibe.ch>
Tel. +41 79 804 00 23