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Directory 1. Peter Wittenburg, e-Humanities – an Emerging Discipline 2. Adam Rambousek, Eleventh International Conference on TSD 2008 Message 1: e-Humanities – an Emerging Discipline
Date: 20-Jul-2008 From: Peter Wittenburg <Peter.Wittenburgmpi.nl> Subject: e-Humanities – an Emerging Discipline E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: e-Humanities - an Emerging Discipline Date: 07-Dec-2008 - 12-Dec-2008 Location: Indianapolis, USA Contact Person: CLARIN CLARIN Meeting Email: clarinclarin.eu Web Site: http://www.clarin.eu/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics, Language Documentation, Discipline of Linguistics Call Deadline: 22-Aug-2008 Meeting Description: e-Humanities - an emerging discipline Workshop at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Indianapolis, USA December 7-12, 2008 2nd Call for Papers Aim of the workshop In the Humanities the availability of new digital technology and increasing amounts of digitized data has triggered the development of several novel research methods. The capability of creating and using large digital collections of structured and unstructured resources and the emergence of powerful algorithms for processing the data from multiple perspectives is already affecting all Humanities disciplines. However, to reap the full benefit of e-Science approaches, a number of issues that are specific for the Humanities must be addressed. It is the aim of this workshop to do just this. In the past many resources have been made available in digital form. These include texts, multimedia documents, but also a wide range of meta-data, from annotations of documents, via lexicons and taxonomies to grammatical descriptions of many natural languages. Since these resources have been created independently, in the absence of standards for character encoding, file formats, annotation systems, access rights and IPR, these resources do not interoperate. Yet, the full benefits of e-Humanities can only be had if independently created resources can be combined, as if they formed one large resource. Therefore, substantial work remains to be done to reach a situation in which each scholar can peruse the combined resources with the same ease as if they formed one homogeneous resource. So far only a fraction of the existing documents that are of interest to the Humanities has been digitized. The same holds for knowledge sources such as lexicons and grammars. Thus, we are seeing, and we will be seeing, projects aimed at digitizing additional resources. To avoid the need for expensive repair measures to enable interoperability after the completion of these projects, standards for all levels -from character encoding to the semantics of meta-data- must be developed. Standardization activities are under way, but they are far from completion. The distributed character of the resources, in combination with local expertise that is needed to keep them up-to-date, naturally leads to a Data Grid. The enormous amounts of computations necessary for advanced automatic pattern detection and other machine learning techniques gives rise to the need for using Grid Computing. Both aspects of the Grid-based processing are likely to pose special requirements related to the type of data, the type of questions that scientists ask, and the access rights. The specific questions addressed in the Humanities and the specific types of data that are of interest require the development of dedicated algorithms. Even if these algorithms can be adapted from related disciplines, there is still a large amount of work to be done before the toolbox for e-Humanities research is reasonably complete and before existing tools can easily be combined to workflow chains by the humanities scholar who is not an expert. e-Humanities can only be successful if it is possible to provide computer tools that support scholars in their research, rather than forces them to spend lots of time learning how to use new tools, or even worse, developing new tools. To prepare researchers for using the emerging e-Humanities tools, novel courses must be developed for undergraduate and graduate programs. However, even the best possible education cannot compensate for bad design of the tools. Therefore, the e-Humanities toolbox must come with an excellent user interface. Papers submitted for presentation on the workshop should report original research that has not been published elsewhere. In addition, we invite position papers that make solid contributions to the design of a research roadmap for the e-Humanities. All papers submitted for presentation in the workshop will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Against the background of the general aim of the workshop we invite papers in all areas indicated above. Thus, the following topics will be covered: - advanced e-Humanities research scenarios supported by language resources and technology - advanced collaboration scenarios for geographically distributed collaborative research - text and media integration, interoperability - advanced computational modelling - development of novel tools for Humanities research - flexible knowledge weaving technology - data and compute Grids - advanced user interfaces supporting advanced e-Humanities methods - education and training for e-Humanities researchers - accessibility, legal and ethical issues involved in e-Humanities scenarios -- impact of e-Humanities on the research process and changes of the role of the researcher - other topics that fit in the general goal of the workshop The full-day workshop will comprise two invited lectures, oral and poster presentations. The workshop will conclude with a discussion that should contribute to the roadmap for future research in the field. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. We intend to publish extended versions of the most interesting papers and the result of the panel discussion in the form of a book, or as a special issue of a leading journal in the field. Important dates Deadline for Submission of full papers: 22 August 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 5 September 2008 Final submission of camera-ready papers: 10 October 2008 Final Program published on the Web: 10 October 2008 Conference and Workshop: 7-12 December 2008 Submissions of papers with a maximum length of eight pages must use the conference format instructions and only PDF documents without page numbering will be accepted. Organizers: (CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/) and DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/) will take care of continuity) Peter Wittenburg MPI, Nijmegen (chair) Laurent Romary MPDL, Berlin Sheila Anderson AHDS, London Peter Doorn DANS, Den Haag Tamas Varadi Academy of Science, Budapest Steven Krauwer University Utrecht Program Committee Nicoletta Calzolari CNR, Pisa Martin Wynne OTA, Oxford Gerhard Budin U. Vienna Tamas Varadi Academy of Sciences, Budapest Stelios Piperidis ILSP, Athens Carlos Levinho Museo d'Indio, Rio Sven Strömquist U. Lund Kiril Simov Academy of Sciences, Sofia Bente Maegaard U. Copenhagen Jost Gippert U. Frankfurt Eva Hajicova CU Prague Dan Tufis Academy of Sciences, Bukarest Walter Daelemans U. Antwerp Kee-Sun Choi KAIST, Daejon Helen Aristar-Dry Eastern Michigan U. Gary Simons SIL, Atlanta Sadaoki Furui Tokyo Institute of Technology Marc Kemps-Snijders MPI, Nijmegen Laurent Romary MPDL Berlin Sheila Anderson AHDS, London Steven Krauwer Utrecht University Peter Wittenburg MPI, Nijmegen Chu Ren Huang HK Poly U. HK and Acad. Sinica, Taipei Peter Doorn DANS, Den Haag Sue Ellen Wright Kent State University, Ohio Linda Barwick Paradisec, Sydney University Paul Doorenbosch Dutch Royal Library, Den Haag Heike Neuroth SUB Göttingen Peter Gietz DAASI, Tübingen Fotis Jannidis TU Darmstadt Tony Hey Microsoft Research Message 2: Eleventh International Conference on TSD 2008
Date: 18-Jul-2008 From: Adam Rambousek <xrambousfi.muni.cz> Subject: Eleventh International Conference on TSD 2008 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Eleventh International Conference on TSD 2008 Short Title: TSD 2008 Date: 08-Sep-2008 - 12-Sep-2008 Location: Brno, Czech Republic Contact Person: Dana Hlavackova Meeting Email: tsd2008tsdconference.org Web Site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2008/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2008 Meeting Description: The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. The TSD Series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Call for Papers Submission of Demonstration Abstracts Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission must be made using an online form available at the conference www pages. The accepted demonstrations will be presented during a special Demonstration Session (see the Demo Instructions at www.tsdconference.org). Demonstrators can present their contribution with their own notebook with an Internet connection provided by the organisers or the organisers can prepare a PC computer with multimedia support for demonstrators. Important Dates: July 31 2008: Submission of demonstration abstracts August 7 2008: Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2008: Conference date The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the Proceedings of TSD 2008 but they will be published electronically at the conference website. Topics Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis Papers on processing languages other than English are strongly encouraged. Program Committee: Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Attila Ferencz, Romania Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic Fabio Pianesi, Italy Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Victor Zakharov, Russia Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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