LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009


 * Call for Papers :::

EACL workshop 'LaTeCH - SHELT&R 2009': Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education

http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech09

Co-located with The 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 30 (31) March 2009 Athens, Greece

Scope and Topics

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the application of language technology tools and resources to text-based research in Social sciences, Humanities and Education (SHE). Likewise, large scale digitisation projects are currently underway to make collections of cultural heritage (CH) stored in museums, archives, and libraries around the world more accessible, where it is desirable to develop powerful tools that enable annotating, structuring, enriching, searching, linking, and mining the digitised data. Language technology has an important role to play in these processes, even for collections which are primarily non-textual, since text is the pervasive medium used for metadata.

At the same time, the CH and SHE domains pose special challenges for the NLP community, such as the use of historic or non-standard language (ellipsis, OCR or transcription errors, linguistic variation, and the mixed use of languages), the interplay between textual form and content, as well as the necessity to deal with data from various media. Textual data from CH and SHE are typically multifunctional, which allows for transdisciplinary research, promoting the development of automatic creation and extension of controlled vocabularies and information exchange standards. The CH and SHE domains therefore constitute an interesting and challenging testbed for the robustness of existing language technology.

The workshop, a continuation of LaTeCH-07 (Prague, Czech Republic) and LaTeCH-08 (Marrakech, Morocco) aims to foster interaction between researchers working on all aspects of language technology applied to CH and SHE domains, and experts from institutions who are testing deployed technologies and formulating improved use cases.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Adapting existing NLP tools to the CH and SHE domains: machine learning and semantic web technologies * Automatic error detection and cleaning * Complex annotation tools and interfaces * Dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or non-contemporary use of language * Knowledge discovery from CH and SHE data * Knowledge representation in CH and SHE * Linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains * Ontologies, data models, taxonomies: automatic induction and standardisation * Representing CH and SHE data to different audiences: personalisation, text simplification, text summarisation, (hyper)text generation * Transdisciplinary research on CH and SHE data * User scenarios and use cases.

Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of the workshop. Papers should present completed work, not exceeding 8 pages. All submissions are to be formatted using the EACL 2009 stylefiles.

Papers should be submitted electronically, no later than Friday 19 December, 2008. The submission website is soon to be announced. The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF.

The reviewing process will be blind; thus papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web sites, project names etc. revealing the authors' identity. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Important dates

19 December, 2008 - Deadline for paper submission 30 January, 2009 - Notification of acceptance 12 February, 2009 - Camera-ready copies due 30 or 31 March, 2009 - LaTeCH-SHELT&R 2009 workshop held at EACL-09 (exact date to be announced)

Programme Committee

Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia David Bamman, Perseus, USA Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, Netherlands Andrea Bozzi, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany Kate Byrne, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Claire Cardie, Cornell University, USA Paul Clough, Sheffield University, UK Milena P. Dobreva, HATII, University of Glasgow, Scotland Mick O'Donnell, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Matthew James Driscoll, Copenhagen University, Denmark Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, Netherlands Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Madrid, Spain Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Ben Hachey, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada Christer Johansson, University of Bergen, Norway Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Piroska Lendvai, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Christina Lioma, University of Leuven, Belgium Veronique Malaisé, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Steven van der Mije, Trezorix, The Netherlands John Nerbonne, Groningen University, The Netherlands Marco Pennacchiotti, Saarland University/Yahoo! Research, Germany Georg Rehm, Tübingen University, Germany Martin Reynaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta Maria Simi, University of Pisa, Italy Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Andreas Witt, Tübingen University, Germany Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Svitlana Zinger, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Organising Committee

Piroska Lendvai (Co-chair), Tilburg University, The Netherlands Lars Borin (Co-chair), University of Gothenburg, Sweden Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Martin Reynaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany

Contact

Piroska Lendvai Dept. of Communication and Information Sciences Tilburg University The Netherlands p.lendvai (at) uvt.nl

Lars Borin Språkbanken • Språkdata Department of Swedish Language University of Gothenburg Sweden lars.borin (at) svenska.gu.se

Workshop website

http://ilk.uvt.nl/latech09 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP