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[1] From: Harriet Palfreyman <harriet.palfreyman@MANCHESTER.AC.UK>
Subject: Access for all: Are digital museums better? Online event (69)
[2] From: Francesca Frontini <francescafrontini@gmail.com>
Subject: [Humanist] 2nd CFP Workshop - Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources @LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin (Italy) (116)
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Date: 2024-02-12 14:35:05+00:00
From: Harriet Palfreyman <harriet.palfreyman@MANCHESTER.AC.UK>
Subject: Access for all: Are digital museums better? Online event
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please can I draw your attention to this upcoming event hosted by the
Museum of Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester.
Access for all: are digital museums better?
<https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:x2ib-lr7oc1en-mlsjkb/access-for-
all-are-digital-museums-better>
A panel of historians, researchers and digital engagement specialists,
discuss and debate virtual collections and in-person object encounters
in medical museums.
The event marks the launch of the new Instruments of Change
online exhibition on Manchester Digital Exhibitions, showcasing historic
medical objects and equipment that represent innovation, change and
discovery across 200 years of healthcare, research and medical education
in Manchester. The event will consider issues of accessibility within
science-based collections and histories as well as thought around
material culture within research, teaching and public engagement.
<https://www.digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/instruments-of-
change/page/introduction>
Speakers:
Dr Tricia Close-Koenig
/Tricia is a co-advisor in charge of the medical collections in the
historical Pathological Anatomy collection at the University of Strasbourg./
Jane Gallagher
/Jane is the Head of Digital Special Collections and Services in The
University of Manchester’s Library. She leads the Special Collections
Imaging team, developing the collections for digital exploration./
Dr Scott Midson
/Scott is the Programme Director for Liberal Arts at The University of
Manchester. He frequently delivers object-based sessions, using
collections in the Museum of Medicine and Health, as part of his
Humanities in Public lectures./
Chair: Dr Harriet Palfreyman, Academic Lead for the Museum of Medicine
and Health
Register via Eventbrite here: Access for all: are digital museums
better? Tickets, Wed 21 Feb 2024 at 11:00 | Eventbrite
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/access-for-all-are-digital-museums-better-
tickets-781375785007?aff=oddtdtcreator>.
We hope to see many of you join us!
Best wishes,
Harriet
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Dr Harriet Palfreyman (she/her)
Lecturer in Science Communication | Deputy Programme Director MSc
Science and Health Communication
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine | The
University of Manchester | Room 2.26 Simon Building | Oxford Road |
Manchester | M13 9PL | UK
Email: harriet.palfreyman@manchester.ac.uk
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Date: 2024-02-12 09:55:51+00:00
From: Francesca Frontini <francescafrontini@gmail.com>
Subject: [Humanist] 2nd CFP Workshop - Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources @LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin (Italy)
Second call for papers for the LREC-COLING2024 pre-conference workshop:
Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources
Date: 21 May 2024 (full day)
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin, Italy
Webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
Submission Deadline: 21 February 2024
Submission Portal: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/htres2024/
Workshop description
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.
The workshop is supported by CLARIN and the European Holocaust Research
Infrastructure (EHRI).
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
- Digitization 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 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'.
Submission & Publication
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 must be anonymous and strictly follow the LREC2024 stylesheet
formatting guidelines.
All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main
conference platform via START
Important Dates
- *Paper submission deadline:* 21 February 2024
- *Notification of acceptance:* 20 March 2024
- *Camera-ready paper: *15 April 2024
- *Workshop date: *21 May 2024
Organising Committee
- Isuri Anuradha, University of Wolverhampton, UK
- Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton, UK
- Francesca Frontini, CNR-ILC, Italy & CLARIN, Italy
- Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK
- Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
- Alistair Plum, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
[...]
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