Dear members of the list,

this workshop organized by colleagues at the Université de Lausanne might be of interest for some of you.

Best wishes,

Elena Spadini

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It is often said that the digital humanities are “situated at the

intersection of computer science and the humanities,” but what does this

mean? We believe that the point of using computers in the humanities is

not just to automatically analyze larger amounts of data or to

accelerate research. We therefore prefer to understand digital

humanities as (1) the study of means and methods of constructing formal

models in the humanities and (2) as the application of these means and

methods for the construction of concrete models in particular humanities

disciplines. The central research questions are thus correspondingly (1)

which computational methods are most appropriate for dealing with the

particular challenges posed by humanities research, e.g., uncertainty,

vagueness, incompleteness, but also with different positions (points of

view, values, criteria, perspectives, approaches, readings, etc.)? And

(2) how can such computational methods be applied to concrete research

questions in the humanities?

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers involved with

computational approaches in the humanities with the objective of

stimulating the research and exchange around innovative,

methodologically explicit approaches, to encourage discussion among

researchers and developers from different communities, and to help

bridging the divide that still exists between the different disciplines

involved in this field.

The program will consist of invited and contributed talks on

computational methods for and in the humanities. The official language

of the workshop is English. Contributions can be submitted in English or

French.

The workshop is organized by the Department of Language and Information

Sciences at the University of Lausanne, with the support of the Faculty

of Arts. The workshop underlines the commitment of the Department of

Language and Information Sciences to the computational dimension of the

digital humanities, including formal and mathematical methods.

Topics

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  The topics of the workshop encompass formal and computational aspects

  related to the development and use of computational methods in the

  humanities (in particular the disciplines represented in the Faculty

  of Arts of UNIL - such as literature, linguistics, history, history of

  art, cinema studies, game studies).

  Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Theoretical issues of formal modeling in the humanities

  • Knowledge representation in the humanities

  • Data structures addressing specific problems in the humanities

    (including text and markup)

  • Quantitative methods in the humanities

  • Computer vision and image analysis in the humanities

  • Spatial analysis in the humanities

  • Network analysis in the humanities

Submissions

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  We invite researchers to submit abstracts of 500 to 1000 words (1–2

  pages, excluding references). Abstracts will be reviewed double-blind

  by the members of the program committee, and all submissions will

  receive several independent reviews. Abstracts submitted at review

  stage must not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any

  information that may disclose the authors’ identity.

  Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their

  research at the workshop as a talk, and the abstracts will be

  published in the book of abstracts of the workshop.

  The abstracts must use the ACL 2017 format. Please strictly follow the

  guidelines that will be published on the workshop Web site. Abstracts

  must be submitted electronically in PDF format. For abstracts

  submissions we use EasyChair:

  [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comhum2018]. For details

  please consult the workshop Web site at

  [http://www.unil.ch/llist/events/comhum2018].

  Authors of accepted contributions will be invited, after the

  conference, to submit a full paper version (6–16 pages), which, after

  peer-review, will be published in an open-access, electronic

  conference volume endowed with persistent identifiers (to be confirmed

  soon).

Invited Speakers

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  • Manfred Thaller

  • (more to be confirmed)

Important Dates

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  Deadline for submission of abstracts

        April 16, 2018

  Notification of acceptance

        April 30, 2018

  Workshop

        June 4–5, 2018

Program Committee

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  • François Bavaud

  • Raphaël Ceré

  • Barbara McGillivray

  • Cerstin Mahlow

  • Isaac Pante

  • Davide Picca

  • Michael Piotrowski (chair)

  • Yannick Rochat

  • Elena Spadini

  • Sabine Süsstrunk

  • Aris Xanthos

Further Information

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  [http://www.unil.ch/llist/event/comhum2018] llist@unil.ch