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[1] From: Martin Wynne <martin.wynne@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: CfP: HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources at LREC-COLING 2024 (119)
[2] From: Kontino, T. (Thalassia) <t.kontino@uu.nl>
Subject: Call for Papers for ParlaCLARIN IV (115)
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Date: 2023-12-20 11:33:44+00:00
From: Martin Wynne <martin.wynne@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: CfP: HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources at LREC-COLING 2024
Call for Papers: HTRes 2024 –
Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources
Pre-conference workshop at LREC-COLING 2024
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/)
Tuesday, 21st May, 2024 in Torino, Italy
Workshop webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024
Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s
darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of
the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that
describe the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal
narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are
captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their
personal experiences and observations from that time period.
Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital
format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the
text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated
Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our
society. These collections empower researchers and historians to
validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant
information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived
from these data. This workshop will investigate a number of ways in
which techniques and tools from natural language processing and corpus
linguistics can contribute to the exploration, analysis, dissemination
and preservation of Holocaust testimonies.
Topics of interest:
We expect contributions related to the following topics:
* Creation of datasets and development of tools for the study of
Holocaust testimonies:
* Creation of language corpora of Holocaust testimonies
* Digitisation and enhancement of oral and written testimonies
(including automatic speech recognition, alignment of text and
speech, format conversion, OCR, handwriting recognition, machine
translation)
* Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, and events
in testimonies
* Standards, representation formats, and guidelines for annotations
and vocabularies relevant to the Holocaust testimonies
* Creation, adaptation and tuning of software applications for the
creation, annotation, enhancement and use of Holocaust testimonies
as language resources
Research using NLP and Holocaust testimonies
* Applications of NLP in analysing Holocaust survivor testimonies
* Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction from survivor
narratives.
Data Visualisation, Knowledge Representation and Information Extraction:
* Visualising complex data structures from Holocaust testimonies
* Building knowledge graphs and networks to represent historical
relationships
* Interactive data visualisations for education and research
* Extracting biographical and temporal information relevant to the
Holocaust
* Deep learning and large language models
Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation:
* Methods and tools for digitising and preserving Holocaust testimonies
* Best practices for metadata standards and cataloguing
* Ensuring long-term accessibility and data integrity
Ethical Considerations and Privacy
* Ethical challenges in digitising and sharing sensitive testimonies
* Anonymisation and privacy protection in Holocaust data
* Community engagement and consent in digital projects
User and application aspects
* Development of tools and interfaces for the search, analysis and
exploration of Holocaust testimonies
* Other relevant use cases and application scenarios
All papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic
of 'Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources'.
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not
currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions:
Standard research papers (up to 8 pages, plus more pages for references
if needed);
Short research papers (from 4 to 6 pages, plus more pages for references
if needed).
Submissions should strictly follow the LREC2024 stylesheet formatting
guidelines. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format
via the main conference platform via START
(https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/htres2024/)
Important Dates:
Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2024
Camera-ready version submission: 15 April 2024
Workshop date: 21 May 2024
Programme:
Please refer to the website for the details of the programme, plus the
organizing and programme committees: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
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Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
martin.wynne@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530
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Date: 2023-12-20 09:22:55+00:00
From: Kontino, T. (Thalassia) <t.kontino@uu.nl>
Subject: Call for Papers for ParlaCLARIN IV
Call for Papers for ParlaCLARIN IV
Date: to be held at LREC-COLING 2024, Monday 20 May, 2024
Location: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italy)
Webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-IV
Submission Deadline: 19 February 2024
Submission Portal: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/parlaclarin-iv/
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Workshop description
Parliamentary data is an important source of scholarly and socially relevant
content, serving as a verified communication channel between the elected
political representatives and members of the society. The development of
accessible, comprehensive and well-annotated parliamentary corpora is therefore
crucial for the information society, as such corpora help scientists and
investigative journalists to ascertain the accuracy of socio-politically
relevant information, and to inform the citizens about the trends and insights
on the basis of such data explorations. Research-wise, parliamentary corpora are
a quintessential resource for a number of disciplines in digital humanities and
social sciences, such as political science, sociology, history, and
(socio)linguistics.
The distinguishing characteristic of parliamentary data is that it is spoken
language produced in controlled circumstances. Such data has traditionally been
transcribed in a formal way but is now also increasingly transcribed with
speech-to-text software as well as released in the original audio and video
formats, which encourages resource and software development and provides
research opportunities related to structuring, synchronization, visualization,
querying and analysis of parliamentary corpora. Therefore, a harmonized approach
to data curation practices for this type of data can support the advancement of
the field significantly. One of the ways in which the research community is
supported in this line of work is through the conversion of existing corpora and
further development of new cross-national parliamentary corpora into a highly
comparable, harmonized set of multilingual resources. These allow researchers to
share comparative perspectives and to perform multidisciplinary research on
parliamentary data. We envision that the ParlaCLARIN IV workshop, as a venue for
knowledge and experience exchange on the topic, will contribute to the
development and growth of the field of digital parliamentary science.
Objective
This fourth ParlaCLARIN workshop is a continuation of the 2018, 2020 and 2022
editions held at the respective LREC conferences, see references below. On the
one hand, it continues to bring together developers, curators and researchers of
regional, national and international parliamentary debates from across diverse
disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. On the other hand, we
envisage the appearance of new discussion threads, tasks, and challenges that
are partially inspired by or related to the new data releases such as ParlaMint
and data formats such as Parla-CLARIN.
Topics of interests
* We invite unpublished original work focusing on (but not exclusive to)
* Compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of historical or
contemporary parliamentary written or audio records
* Harmonisation of existing multilingual parliamentary resources, containing
either synchronic or diachronic data or both
Linking or comparing parliamentary records with other datasets of political
discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign
debates, and social media posts, and to other sources of structured knowledge,
such as formal ontologies and LOD datasets (in particular for the description of
speakers, political parties, etc.)
* Special themes for this year’s workshop are:
* Enrichment of parliamentary proceedings (with e.g. sentiment annotation,
political profiling of speakers etc.) and research using such data
* Machine translation of parliamentary proceedings and research using such
data
* Argument mining of parliamentary debates
Apart from the dissemination of the results, the workshop also aims to address
the identified obstacles, discuss open issues and coordinate future efforts in
this increasingly trans-national and cross-disciplinary community.
Previous editions for the reference:
* 2022: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-III
* 2020: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-II
* 2018: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN
Submission and Publication
We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4
pages) and demo papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral
presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in
online proceedings.
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide
essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies,
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in
the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all
LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to
enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
Important Dates
* Paper submission deadline: 19 February 2024
* Notification of acceptance: 26 March 2024
* Camera-ready paper: 1 April 2024
* Workshop date: 20 May 2024
Organising Committee
* Darja Fiser, Institute of Contemporary History and CLARIN ERIC
* Maria Eskevich, Huygens Institute, KNAW
* David Bordon, University of Ljubljana
[...]
The workshop is supported by the CLARIN ERIC research infrastructure.
To contact the organisers, please mail
parlaclarin@clarin.eu<mailto:parlaclarin@clarin.eu> (Subject:
[ParlaCLARIN@LREC2024]).
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