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Dear Global DH Colleagues,
Hello! I hope this email finds you well with all things considered. I am writing to share that our next DH Asia Webinar session is on April 1 (Mon), 10:30am GMT5:30+. If you happen to be available, please join us by registering from the following link: https://sutd-edu-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuf-2rrT8oGtOHG5kJ_9AcVc2ewP…
Our speaker is Dr. Maya Dodd, the Director of the FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her talk is titled “Locating Digital Archives for An Indian Digital Commons,” and you can check out its synopsis in the attached flier. The session will be moderated by Dr. Nirmala Menon, Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of English, IIT Indore.
Looking forward to seeing many of you!
Sincerely,
Setsuko on behalf of the DH Asia Webinar planning team
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EXTENDED DEADLINE (28 February 2024)
The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024
https://bit.ly/rail2024
New: extended deadline
Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024
Workshop date: 25 May 2024
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy)
The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024
LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/
Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/
The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre,
Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary
platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools,
etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In
particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as
computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to
indigenous languages found in Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are
somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting
properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from
most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these
languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of
Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in
these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the
problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African
languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages.
Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop
provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on
issues of language resource development and learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as
its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of
African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be
accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:
Digital representations of linguistic structures
Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous
language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4)
pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of
references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are
allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that
reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted
according to the LREC-COLING style sheet
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the
LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is
double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not
provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the
amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The
RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account
(https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will
be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 28 February 2024 (AoE)
Date of notification: 15 March 2024
Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024
RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
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South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024
https://bit.ly/rail2024
Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024
Workshop date: 25 May 2024
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy)
The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024
LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/
Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/
The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre,
Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary
platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools,
etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In
particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as
computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to
indigenous languages found in Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are
somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting
properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from
most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these
languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of
Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in
these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the
problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African
languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages.
Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop
provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on
issues of language resource development and learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as
its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of
African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be
accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4)
pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of
references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are
allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that
reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted
according to the LREC-COLING style sheet
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the
LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is
double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not
provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the
amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The
RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account
(https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will
be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 23 February 2024
Date of notification: 15 March 2024
Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024
RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
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Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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Are you a researcher or programmer interested in working with HathiTrust Digital Library data? Do you have experience in working with text analysis or data visualization? The HathiTrust Research Center’s “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction” (TORCHLITE) project can help!
HTRC is pleased to announce a call for applications to participate in our TORCHLITE Hackathon, taking place May 21-23, 2024 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois. Those selected to participate will receive up to $1000 in travel and accommodation reimbursement.
The TORCHLITE project leverages HTRC’s new Extracted Features API. The Extracted Features API allows programmatic access to metadata and annotated token data (aggregated at the page level) for more than 17 million volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library collection, including in-copyright material.
We’re looking for both programmers and subject matter experts in the humanities, social sciences, and other disciplines. Please read the full call for applications (https://htrc.github.io/torchlite-hackathon/cfp) for more information and to apply (https://forms.gle/XgVj4nUsBWYnQmqEA) by March 1st.
The “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction (TORCHLITE)” project is generously funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant no. HAA-284850-22.
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Colleagues,
We are proud to announce the 4th annual African Digital Humanities Symposium. Organized by the University of Ghana and the University of Kansas, the event (previously online only) will be held in person at the University of Ghana in Accra on February 15-16, and streamed on Zoom.
Morning sessions are devoted to workshops and are for in-person attendees. Afternoon sessions will feature panels and presentations and will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing.
See Zoom registration details and full program at https://africandh.ku.edu/symposium/2024
The program includes the following panels and speakers:
Featured Speakers
* Menno van Zaanen
Professor of Digital Humanities, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR<https://sadilar.org/>), South Africa
Building a Digital Humanities community of practice, the case of Escalator
* Randa El Khatib
Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship, INKE & Co-director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Building Bridges: The Journey of Digital Humanities Institute Beirut
Panel 1: Digital Collections
* Fu’ad Lawal, Founder and Project Lead, Archivi.ng<https://archivi.ng/>
We’re On The Brink Of An Irreparable Loss: Digitizing Nigeria’s Historical Newspapers
* Siaka Fadera
Assistant Director, Research and Documentation Division, National Centre for Arts and Culture, The Gambia
Digitization of the NCA/RDD Oral Archive of The Gambia: Experiences, Challenges, Outlook
* Judith Opoku-Boateng, Director, J.H. Kwabena Nketia Audio-Visual Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Preserving Audio and Video of Ghanian traditional drumming and dance
Panel 2: Languages
* Augustin Ndione, Director, Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar (CLAD), Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), Senegal
Digitizing a didactic method for applications in local language teaching
* Emmanuel Ngue Um, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Digital Humanities, Higher Teacher Training College, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon
Language as Software : A Digital Humanities Perspective to Revealing the Rhizome of African Language Spaces.
* Alex Gil, Senior Lecturer II & Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Yale University
Mother Tongue DH: Reflections on the Computational Limits of Any Language
Panel 3: Digital Culture
* Ashleigh Harris, Professor of English, Uppsala University, Sweden & Director ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata Project
Linked Open Metadata for African Literary Heritage
* Karen Ijumba
Senior Researcher, Open Restitution Africa
Poetry Africa Digital Map: An example of how selective and curated digitisation of ephemeral material in collections can enable new pathways of knowledge production
* Kodjo Atiso, Librarian for Africana and International Studies, University of Kansas
Towards the preservation of flora and fauna: digitization of pre-independence herbarium in Ghana
Panel 4: Artificial Intelligence
* Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ghana
Gibberish and Structure: ChatGPT and the Curious Case of African Literary Criticism
* Oluwaseun Sanwoolu
PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas
Close personal relationships with AI
* Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
Founder, Yoruba Name Project<https://www.yorubaname.com/>
Digitization in Lexicography: AI and the Future of African Languages and Oratures
Panel 5: DH Infrastructure
* Tunde Ope-Davies
Chair & Principal Investigator, Center for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos (CEDHUL)
Digital Humanities as Platform for Redefining and Retooling the Human Sciences: A Case Study
* Brian Rosenblum
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas
Building a Digital Humanities Community at a Public Research University
* Roundtable discussion DH Centers & Libraries
With gratitude to all of our sponsors:
Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas
https://idrh.ku.edu
School of Information and Communication Studies, University of Ghana
https://sics.ug.edu.gh/
ALMEDA: African Literary Metadata
A project funded by the European Research Council
https://almedaresearch.org/
Kansas African Studies Center
https://kasc.ku.edu
University of Kansas Libraries
https://lib.ku.edu
Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics, University of Kansas
https://i2s-research.ku.edu/center-cyber-social-dynamics-ccsd
Project on the History of Black Writing
https://hbw.ku.edu/
Department of African & African-American Studies, University of Kansas
https://afs.ku.edu/
Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana
https://www.ug.edu.gh/infostudies/
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Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
Digital Humanities Librarian
University of Kansas Libraries
Watson 450, 1425 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045
http://idrh.ku.edu
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The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024
https://bit.ly/rail2024
New: deadline and article submission type
Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024
Workshop date: 25 May 2024
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy)
The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024
LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/
Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/
The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages
* Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4) pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 23 February 2024
Date of notification: 15 March 2024
Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024
RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
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Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org<https://www.sadilar.org/>
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Dear Global DH Community,
Hello & Happy New Year! Please mark your calendar & register for the next DH Asia Webinar session on January 26th at 2pm (Singapore Time): https://sutd-edu-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtf-6qrTssGNwUSa0EIW-sItXiGg…
The next DH Asia Webinar session features Dr. Miguel Escobar Varela, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore :- ) Dr. Varela's talk is titled "Computational Methods and Intangible Cultural Heritage." The session will be moderated by Dr. Alastair Gornall, Associate Professor in History and Religion at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
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What is the DH Asia Webinar series? The year 2023 marks DHARTI & KADH’s joining the ADHO! To celebrate this occasion and to keep the momentum of the growing DH Asia community, we* decided to launch a monthly webinar series. This series is specially designed for DH researchers based in Asia as well as DH scholars whose works concern Asia. By musing on the intersection of DH and Asia, the series aims to recognize a variety of endeavors that have informed DH in the region and to nurture emerging DH efforts that are shaping the future of DH Asia.
More on the DH Asia Webinar series rationale when the official website launches. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing you at Dr. Varela’s talk on January 26. Please make sure to register in order to receive the Zoom link!
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*We, the planners:
* Chen Jing, Nanjing University, China
* Hsiung-ming Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Jae-Yon Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
* Jinho Park, Seoul National University, Korea
* Kiyonori Nagasaki, International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan
* Lik Hang Tsui, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Lyndsey Twining, Academy of Korean Studies, Korea
* Miguel Escobar Varela, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Nirmala Menon, Indian Institutes of Technology, Indore, India
* Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
* Setsuko Yokoyama Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
* Xingkun Liang, Peking University, China
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Dear colleagues,
The Global Digital Humanities Symposium (msuglobaldh.org<https://msuglobaldh.org/>) Planning Committee is pleased to share the program<https://msuglobaldh.org/schedule/> and to encourage free registration<https://msuglobaldh.org/register/> for the 9th annual Symposium, which will take place as a virtual event, March 18-20, 2024 and an in-person event at Michigan State University, March 22-23, 2024. The registration deadline is Monday, March 11.
During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English, as well as live captions for presentations in English.
Virtual
* Monday, March 18, 3:00 - 7:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240318T190000&p…>)
* Tuesday, March 19, 12:00 - 4:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240319T163000&p…>)
* Wednesday, March 20, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240320T130000&p…>)
In-Person (at Michigan State University)
* Friday, March 22 (Symposium), 8:30am-6:30pm EDT (converted to more time zones<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240322T130000&p…>)
* Saturday, March 23 (Unconference), 10:30am-2:00pm
In particular, we would like to point out virtual keynote presentations from Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Rachel Adams, with a response and discussion, led by Alex Gil. We are also looking forward to a keynote presentation from Bill Hart-Davidson on the in-person day on Friday.
Sincerely,
Global Digital Humanities Symposium Planning Committee
Explore the program below and find abstracts on the website.
Monday, March 18 (Virtual)
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3:00 – 3:30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks
*
3:30 – 4:30 pm – Keynote: “Uncertain Intelligences? anti-colonial and queer identity formations in the socio-technical imaginary” – Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
*
4:35 – 5:35 pm – Transnational Borderlands Thinking and Knowledge-Making through Feminist Data Mapping – Sylvia Fernandez, Niloufar Esmaeili, Kiri Avelar
*
5:45 – 6:45 pm – Artificial Intelligence: Praxis, Problems, and Play
*
Generative AI and Linguistic (In)justice – Laura Hensch
*
AI in Visual Art Education: Inspirations from Contemporary Artists – Borim Song, Ahran Koo
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Who wrote it better? Analyzing human and generative AI journalistic reporting – Abby Cole
Tuesday, March 19 (Virtual)
*
12:00 – 12:15 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks
*
12:15 – 1:15 pm – Humanidades digitales latinas y decolonialismo – Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Montse Feu, Paloma Vargas Montes
*
1:20 – 2:00 pm – Womanhood, Art, and Labor
*
Analysing the Depiction of Motherhood through Multimodal Networks: a Comparative Study about socially engaged engravers producing in Brazil in the 20th century – Barbara Romero Ferron, Luana Medina Fortes
*
Intersectional Play: Representation in Storytelling, Decolonization in Digital Games, and Black Women’s Cultural Labor Production – Diamond Beverly-Porter
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Chronicling Harriett: Afrofuturist Museology through Immersive Technology – Synatra Smith
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2:10 – 3:10 pm – Digital Storytelling
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Mexico City From Above: Mapping Archival Aerial Imagery for Bilingual Digital Storytelling – Jessica Mack
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Transcending Boundaries via Digital Storytelling: A Case Study of Ghayath Almadhoun’s Poetry Films – Tianrui Ma
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Exploring Vernacular Arab Architecture in Educational Immersive Virtual Environments: The case of Sheikh Isa House in Bahrain. – Eiman Elgewely
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3:15 – 4:15 pm – Keynote: “Empire of AI: How AI is Widening Global Inequality” – Rachel Adams
Wednesday, March 20 (Virtual)
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9:00 – 9:10 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:10 – 10:25 am – Text Analysis: Languages of Power & Resistance
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Unleashing Diverse Voices of Colonialism: Topic Modeling Translated and Original Adventure Fiction in Semi-colonial China (1898-1919) – Xuezhao Li
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Entre la censura, el vigilantismo, y la resistencia: Activismo K-Pop y Derechos Humanos en Colombia. – Andrés Lombana-Bermúdez, Sergio Rodríguez Gómez
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The Language of Colonialism: A Study of the Speeches of the Viceroys of India – Gauri Jhangiani
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Computational Political Propaganda Detection on Twitter during Russia-Ukraine War: A Critical Discourse Analysis based Theoretical Framework – Husnain Raza
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10:30 – 11:00 am – Project Showcase (Concurrent sessions in breakout rooms)
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Visualizing 400 Years of History of the Indigenous Native American -The Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia – Babiha Bakshi
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VideoDreams and the Transmedia Novel+: Blurring the edges between literature, video games, music, programming, and digital archaeology – Fernando Montes Vera
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‘Singing the Song of the Land You Are In’ – Digital Humanities and Post-Colonial Study of the Kyrgyz Manas – Anguelina Popova, James Plumtree
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Discovering Sukhareva: Neurodiversity, Minimal Computing, and the History of Autism – Ian Goodale
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Digital Humanities as Memory Work: Memory Eternal as a Virtual Site of Mourning – Monique Tschofen, Armstrong Jolene, Fisher Caitlin, Maaren Kari, Siobhan O’Flynn, Pruska-Oldenhof Izabella, Egan Kelly, Angela Joosse, Lai-Tze Fan
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Conservation Narratives Reimagined: Harnessing Digital Storytelling for Environmental Protection in the Global South – Olarotimi Ogungbemi
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A Voice of Distress: A Computational Linguistic Exploration of “Political Depression” During COVID-19 Pandemic – Qilin Liu
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The Blackspeare Project: Developing Post-Secondary Teaching Resources for Shakespeare Scholars – Hannah Bowling
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11:10 – 12:10 pm – Multilingual Praxis in DH
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Adaptability is traditional: incorporating a digital toolkit in Anishinaabe language and cultural revitalization – Ellie Mitchell
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Characterizing similarities between TenTen family corpora: revealing a hierarchy in multilingual digital tools – David Bordonaba-Plou, Laila M. Jreis-Navarro
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Bridging the Gap for Digitally Disadvantaged Languages – Quinn Dombrowski
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11:15 – 1:15 pm – A Discussion Among Keynote Presenters Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Rachel Adams, with a response by Alex Gil
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1:15 – 1:30 pm – Closing Remarks
Friday, March 22 (In-person & Livestreamed)
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9:00 – 9:15 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:15 – 10:15 am – Keynote: Mixing and Mastering Genre Signals: Generative AI, Writing, and the Near Future of Writing Technologies – Bill Hart-Davidson
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10:30 – 11:30 am – Lightning Talks
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10:30 – 11:10 – Power and Advocacy on the Internet
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#AdiosStarbucks: The Impact of Cross-Border Political Discourses within an Online Community and Their Influence on Consumer Behaviors Amidst Political Uncertainty. – AGARZELIM ALVAREZ-MILÁN
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Security Issues, Migration and the Japa-Syndrome in Nigeria: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study of Social Media Posts – Ayo Osisanwo
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Digital Intersectional Gender Responsive Approach to the Issue of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Global Pandemic – Farinaz Basmechi
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#nativetiktok: Indigenous Comedy and Survivance in the Age of Social Media – Aaron Whitestar
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A Corpus-based study of the Internet Fraud Language of the Afropolitan Nigerian youth – Victor Abonyi
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11:10 – 11:30 – Decolonization in practice
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Decolonial Art Practices: Virtual Exhibition as a Teaching Tool – Alla Myzelev, Ilene Sova
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Digitizing Colonized Heritage: Strategies and Challenges – Caroline T. Schroeder
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12:30 -1:30 pm – Lightning Talks
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12:30 – 1:00 pm – Humans & Algorithms: Discontents & Infrastructures
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Misogyny Goes Viral: Understanding TikTok’s Algorithmic Influence on Andrew Tate’s Content – Sunday Ayodabo
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Advances in Open Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Scholarly Information Retrieval in Digital Humanities Research – John Adebayo
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From “Hello World” to “Hello Mom”: The Transition of Human-AI Relationship – Nini Zhou
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1:00 – 1:30 pm – Navigating Femininity Across Space and Time
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The Travels of Lady Nijo: Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism in 13th and 14th Century Japan – Daniel Fandino
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Uncovering and Showcasing the Work of a 19th Century Botanist and Educator using Digital Humanities Tools – India Smith, Erin Lane, Katie Sagal
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“Reclaiming the Female Narrative: Recovering Women’s Voices in Global South Cold War Politics.” – Adelina Tratarou
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1:45 – 2:45 pm – Equity and Inclusion in Digital Access: Panel of Perspectives from North American College Professors in a Collaborative Online International Learning Community (Mexico, Canada and the U.S.) – Christina Acosta
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3:00 – 4:00 pm – Rhetoric of Empire: Semantic Networks and Colonial Legacy in User Reviews of Themed Hotels in Las Vegas – Ayodele James Akinola
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4:15 – 5:15 pm – Poster Session
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World Scripts Explorer: one stop to explore, learn and write any world script – Vyshantha Simha
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Digital Activism among Dalit-Bahujan Communities in India: Anti-Caste Discourses in Relations and Conflict – Tereza Menšíkov
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A Digital Critical Disability Studies “Care Web”: Imagining a Disability Studies Collective Archive – Griffin Zimmerman
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Tailoring Strategies to Navigate Censorship in Russian Political Landscape: Archival Activism and Technology – Ilia Venyavkin, Ilya Utekhin, Anna Nemzer
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Translation Networks – Ali Bolcakan
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Pandemic Storytelling across Cultural Contexts: Comparing Covid Self-Portraits from Korea, Singapore, Columbia, and the U.S. in Digital Archives – Natalie Phillips, Soohyun Cho, Sydney Logsdon
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“Abortion Access Has Everything to Do with Access to Information”: A Digital Collection of Abortion Memories – April Urban
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Digital Rights in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Perception of Privacy Literacy Among Selected Bipoc Graduate Students in the United States – John Adebayo
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OCR for Coptic Literature: Digitizing an Under-resourced Historical Language Corpus – Lydia Bremer-McCollum, Caroline Schroeder
Saturday, March 23 (In-Person)
During a half-day unconference (10:30am - 2:00pm), attendees will have the opportunity to share and learn from each other through discussions, presentations, and workshop sessions. The program for this day will be created at the beginning of the unconference. No submission process or preparation is involved to participate.
Kristen Mapes
Assistant Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI
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The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024
https://bit.ly/rail2024
Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024
Workshop date: 25 May 2024
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy)
The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024
LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/
Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/
The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre,
Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary
platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools,
etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In
particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as
computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to
indigenous languages found in Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are
somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting
properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from
most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these
languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of
Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in
these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the
problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African
languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages.
Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop
provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on
issues of language resource development and learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as
its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of
African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be
accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The
final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one
additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback
can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-
COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which
is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make
sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names,
affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations
(anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows
the LREC-COLING submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account
(https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will
be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 16 February 2024
Date of notification: 15 March 2024
Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024
RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
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Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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