Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 498.
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[1] From: Naomi Wells <naomi.wells@sas.ac.uk>
Subject: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, 2-4 April 2025 (61)
[2] From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: 2nd CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24) + AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task (123)
[3] From: marijn Koolen <marijn.koolen@gmail.com>
Subject: CfP Computational Humanities Research 2024 - 4-6 December, Aarhus, Denmark (118)
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Date: 2024-03-20 06:40:35+00:00
From: Naomi Wells <naomi.wells@sas.ac.uk>
Subject: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, 2-4 April 2025
The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study,
University of London, invites submissions for the inaugural Born-Digital
Collections, Archives and Memory conference, to be hosted at the
University of London from 2-4 April 2025 in collaboration with
colleagues from Aarhus University, the British Library, and the
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum.
Key Information:
* Dates: 2 - 4 April 2025
* Venue: University of London, London, UK & Online
* CFP Deadline: 15 May 2024
* Notification of acceptance: late July 2024
* Submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/borndigital2025
Digital research in the arts and humanities has traditionally focused on
digitised objects and archives. However, born-digital cultural materials
that originate and circulate across a range of formats and platforms are
rapidly expanding and raising new opportunities and challenges for
research, archiving and collecting communities. Collecting, accessing
and sharing born-digital objects and data presents a range of complex
technical, legal and ethical challenges that, if unaddressed, threaten
the archival and research futures of these vital cultural materials and
records of the 21st century. Moreover, the environments, contexts and
formats through which born-digital records are mediated necessitate
reconceptualising the materials and practices we associate with cultural
heritage and memory.
Research and practitioner communities working with born-digital
materials are growing and their interests are varied, from digital
cultures and intangible cultural heritage to web archives, electronic
literatures and social media. This international conference seeks to
further an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral discussion on how the
born-digital transforms what and how we research in the humanities.
We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners involved in
any way in accessing or developing born-digital collections and
archives, and interested in exploring the novel and transformative
effects of born-digital cultural heritage. More details can be found at
the conference website<https://www.sas.ac.uk/borndigital2025> and the
full CFP and submission portal is available here:
https://easychair.org/cfp/borndigital2025
If you have any questions, please contact the Organising Committee at
borndigital@sas.ac.uk<mailto:borndigital@sas.ac.uk>.
Dr Naomi Wells
Senior Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities
Acting Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub/Associate
Director of the Doctoral Centre
Digital Humanities Research
Hub<https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities>/Institute of Languages,
Cultures and Societies<https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/>
School of Advanced Study | University of London
Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK
Email: naomi.wells@sas.ac.uk<mailto:naomi.wells@sas.ac.uk>
Research profile:
https://research.london.ac.uk/search/staff/1164/dr-naomi-wells/
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Date: 2024-03-19 22:03:33+00:00
From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: 2nd CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24) + AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task
[Da: Syrielle Montariol via Corpora <corpora@list.elra.info>]
Second Call for Papers:
5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical
Language Change (LChange’24)
We will organize a full-day workshop co-located with the ACL conference on
Aug 15, 2024 in Bangkok and online. We hope to make this fifth edition
another resounding success!
This year, we are happy to host a *shared task* within LChange: the
*AXOLOTL-24* Shared Task on Explainable Semantic Change Modeling.
Workshop: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-acl-lchange/
Shared task: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/.
Contact email: lchange@changeiskey.org
Workshop description
The LChange workshop targets all aspects of computational modeling of
language change, historical as well as synchronic change. It is running in
its fifth iteration following successful workshops in 2019
<https://languagechange.org/events/2019-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2021
<https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2022
<https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/>, and 2023
<https://languagechange.org/events/2023-emnlp-lchange/>, and will be
co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok (Thailand), as a hybrid event. The
workshop will take place on Thursday 15 August 2024.
The main topics of the workshop remain the same: all aspects around
computational approaches to language change with a focus on digital text
corpora. LChange explores state-of-the-art computational methodologies,
theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of
human language.
The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work on
computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modeling of language
change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language
change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on
evaluating computational methodologies for uncovering language change.
We’ll also be offering mentorship to students, to discuss their research
topic with a member of the field, regardless of whether they are submitting
a paper or not.
Important Dates
* May 10, 2024: Paper submission
* June 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance
* June 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
* August 15, 2024: Workshop date
AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task
AXOLOTL-24 stands for “Ascertain and eXplain Overhauls of the Lexicon Over
Time at LChange'24” and is organized by Mariia Fedorova and Andrey Kutuzov
(University of Oslo), Timothee Mickus, Niko Partanen and Janine Siewert
(University of Helsinki), and Elena Spaziani (Sapienza University Rome).
Note that the papers describing the shared task submissions will be
peer-reviewed and published in the LChange proceedings along with the rest
of the workshop papers.
The shared task presents two subtasks:
- Subtask 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18009
Finding the target word usages associated with new, gained senses
- Subtask 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18008
Describing these senses in a way that facilitates understanding and
lexicographical research.
More information, including a timeline and instructions, is available here:
https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/.
Submissions
We accept two types of submissions, long and short papers, consisting of up
to eight (8) and four (4) pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited
references; final versions will be given one additional page of content so
that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
We also welcome papers focusing on releasing a dataset or a model; these
papers fall into the short paper category.
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including
but not limited to:
- Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical
replacement
- Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language
change
- Computational theories and generative models of language change
- Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis
- Diachronic word sense disambiguation
- Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages
- Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization
- Novel applications and implications of language change detection
- Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change
- Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language
change
- Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language
Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the
workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted
anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review
process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by
the workshop organizers. If you have published in the field previously, and
are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers,
please send us an email!
Workshop organizers
Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg
Syrielle Montariol, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo
Simon Hengchen, iguanodon.ai and Université de Genève
David Alfter, University of Gothenburg
Francesco Periti, University of Milan
Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg
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Date: 2024-03-19 16:05:38+00:00
From: marijn Koolen <marijn.koolen@gmail.com>
Subject: CfP Computational Humanities Research 2024 - 4-6 December, Aarhus, Denmark
Conference: Computational Humanities Research 2024
Dates: 4-6 December 2024
Location: Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University
Website: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org
Call for Papers: https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
Submission deadline: July 8, 2024
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In the arts and humanities, the use of computational, statistical, and
mathematical approaches has considerably increased in recent years. This
research is characterized by the use of formal methods and the construction
of explicit, computational models. This includes quantitative, statistical
approaches, but also more generally computational methods for processing
and analyzing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches.
Despite the undeniable growth of this research area, many scholars still
struggle to find suitable research-oriented venues to present and publish
computational work that does not lose sight of traditional modes of inquiry
in the arts and humanities. This is the scholarly niche that the CHR
conference aims to fill. More precisely, the conference aims at
1. Building a community of scholars working on humanities research questions
relying on a wide range of computational and quantitative approaches to
humanities data in all its forms. We consider this community to be
complementary to the digital humanities landscape.
2. Promoting good practices through sharing “research stories”. Such good
practices may include, for instance, the publication of code and data in
order to support transparency and replication of studies; pre-registering
research design to present theoretical justification, hypotheses, and
proposed statistical analysis; or a redesign of the reviewing process for
interdisciplinary studies that rely on computational approaches to answer
questions relevant to the humanities.
### Topics of interest
We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including
-- but not limited to -- the following:
- Applications of statistical methods and machine learning to process,
enrich and analyse humanities data, including new media and cultural
heritage data;
- Hypothesis-driven humanities research, simulations and generative models;
- Development of new quantitative and empirical methods for humanities
research;
- Modeling bias, uncertainty, and conflicting interpretation in the
humanities;
- Evaluation methods, evaluation data sets and development of standards;
- Formal, statistical or quantitative evaluation of categorization /
periodization;
- Theoretical frameworks and epistemology for quantitative methods and
computational humanities approaches;
- Translation and transfer of methods from other disciplines, approaches to
bridge humanistic and statistical interpretations;
- Visualisation, dissemination (incl. Open science) and teaching in
computational humanities.
- Potential and challenges of AI applications to humanities research.
### Venue
The 2024 edition of the Computational Humanities Research conference will
be hosted by the Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University (
https://chc.au.dk/). The conference will be a hybrid event with an option
to attend in person in Aarhus, virtually, or a combination of the two. More
details will follow soon.
### Important dates
- Submission deadline: July 8, 2024
- Notification to authors: September, 2024
- Final papers ready: October, 2024
- Conference: December 4 - December 6, 2024
- Pre-Conference workshops: December 3, 2024
### Submission types
Long Papers: up to 5000 words (ca. 10 pages, references, abstract
and tables/illustrations excluded). Long papers report on completed, original
andunpublished results. Brevity of argument is preferred. We welcome the
use of appendices or other supplementary information.
Short Papers: up to 3000 words (ca. 6 pages, references, abstract
and tables/illustrations excluded). Short papers report on focused contributions,
and may present work in progress. Short papers are presented either as short
oral presentations or posters.
Lightning Talks: Submit an abstract of up to 750 words (excluding
references, tables and illustrations) to give a 5 minute presentation during a
lightning talks session. This format can be well suited for reporting work in
progress, introducing ideas, preliminary results, or focused question-answer
research.
Workshops: up to 1500 words. Workshops should be organised to be
more interactive than the main conference. The workshops will take place
before the conference, on 3 December. Workshop proposals should describe:
- the aims and set up of the workshop,
- the academic background for the work,
- proposed length (e.g. half day or full day),
- an outline of the day, including the types of activities,
- the expected key outcomes,
- a short bio of each organiser or presenter, including their name,
affiliation, email address
- a plan for promoting the workshop to draw participants.
### Submission Details
See the full Call for Papers:
https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
### Questions?
Contact the organizers: info@computational-humanities-research.org
CHR community on discourse:
https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org
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