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The TEI2022 Program Committee is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the 22th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI), which will be held 13-16 September 2022 (Tue-Fri) at Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom with pre-conference workshops 12-13 September 2022 (Mon-Tue).
https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tei2022/
This year’s theme is:
The past decade has seen a huge increase of data produced by (social)media platforms, digital literary outputs, and various mass digitization efforts of cultural heritage and administrative records. Though these vast data collections hold enormous potential for diverse research, collecting and analyzing text-based data also presents unique challenges that need to be addressed. The increasing quantity of the textual data coincides with its improved availability and accessibility, but also the continuously progressing development of data models, tools, text-mining, and machine-learning techniques. The TEI community is working at the intersection of many of these areas.
If we want the computer to “understand” a text we must either mark textual phenomena or instruct a computer to identify them. In their acclaimed work “The Shape of Data in the Digital Humanities” from 2018, Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis refer to this as “a choice between an algorithmic approach […] or what we might call a “metatextual” approach, in which information is added to the text in some explicit form that enables it to be processed intelligently”.
This call invites contributions dealing with text-related tasks in all aspects of the research process: discovery, analysis, representation, visualization, prediction, causal inference, etc.
Possible topics related to this theme include:
but submissions in other areas are also welcome.
Each submission should include a title, an abstract, up to five keywords, and a brief biography for each of the authors. (Each biography should be no more than 500 characters, and should include current affiliation, research interests, and projects).
The following word counts apply to the text of the abstract excluding titles, bibliography, keywords, and biographies.
The proposals must be submitted in English. The conference language is English.
Speakers will be given 15 minutes each: 10 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion. This type of presentation is suited for the introduction of tools, raising of new ideas, and experimental topics. Proposals should not exceed 300 words.
Speakers will be given 30 minutes each: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals should not exceed 500 words. This presentation type is suitable for substantial research, theoretical or critical discussions.
Proposed sessions will be given 90 minutes, which can be used flexibly to include, for example, 3 individual papers followed by questions, or a roundtable discussion. This type of presentation is suited to coordinated approaches or discussions relating to a single theme. Proposals for a session must include a list of speakers and their biographies. Proposals for a session should not exceed 800 words in total.
A “poster slam” session will be dedicated to poster presentations of 1 minute each. Subsequently, poster presenters will have the chance to tell interested parties more about their project during the poster exhibition, where the audience can browse freely. This type of presentation is suited to introducing new work, projects, or software. Proposals for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words. Accepted poster presenters will be eligible to present in the Virtual Poster session as well and do not need to submit a separate proposal for this.
A Virtual Poster session will be held in https://gather.town/ on the Thursday after the conference (September 22, 2022) to enable people to participate who are not able to physically attend the conference. Accepted poster presenters from the conference will automatically be eligible to present in the Virtual Poster session as well. Scheduling of the Virtual Poster Session(s) will be based on timezones of presenters. Proposals for virtual poster presentations should not exceed 300 words.
A dedicated demonstration session will provide presenters of tools or software outputs with an opportunity to show the software they are working on and with. Demonstrators will be given 10 minutes: 8 minutes each for presentation with 2 minutes for quick follow-up questions. Proposals for demonstrations should not exceed 300 words.
Workshops will be held before the conference, September 12–13, 2022 (Mon-Tue). They provide an opportunity for participants to work together on TEI-related topics. Proposals for workshops should not exceed 800 words (excl. bibliography, biography etc.) and must include:
A list of proposed workshop leader(s) with a brief biography of each one is required too. Each biography should be no more than 500 characters, and should include current affiliation, research interests, and projects.
Registration to the workshops is handled via the conference registration. The conference organisers will not charge for the workshops. Any fees considered by the workshop organisers will have to be managed by themselves.
If you are interested in holding a SIG meeting during the conference, please contact the local hosts to book a room: tei2022@ncl.ac.uk.