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[1] From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak44@gmail.com>
Subject: First Call for Papers: The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (154)
[2] From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: Reminder: CFP: ESTS 2025: Manuscripts in the Age of Print (116)
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Date: 2024-11-07 02:50:03+00:00
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak44@gmail.com>
Subject: First Call for Papers: The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
LaTeCH-CLfL 2025:
The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural
Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
to be held on May 3rd or 4th, 2025 in conjunction with NAACL 2025
<https://2025.naacl.org/>in Albuquerque, NM.
https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2025/
<https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2025/>
First Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting)
Organisers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna
Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz
LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 is the ninth in a series of meetings for NLP
researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts,
humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines
who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long
tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language
Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
(LaTeCH) ran ten times in 2007-2016. The five Workshops on Computational
Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place in 2012-2016. The first
eight joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held in 2017-2024.
Topics and content
In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary
communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP
methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking,
discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and
secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections,
given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such
applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard
textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research
concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital
resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods
require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or
intense manual effort (e.g., annotation).
Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of
creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking
tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a
certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary
devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry.
NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high
performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or
scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results
properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw
performance scores, depending on the context.
More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models
whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is,
therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and
Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get
involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their
fundamental or applied research results. It has already been
demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in
the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but
also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build
richer and more effective tools and models.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences,
Humanities and literature;
• automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data;
• complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces;
• creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources;
• creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters;
• discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature;
• emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature;
• generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry;
• identification and analysis of literary genres;
• interpretability of large language models output for
DH-related tasks (explainable AI);
• linking and retrieving information from different sources,
media, and domains;
• low-resource and historical language processing;
• modelling dialogue literary style for generation;
• modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities,
Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage;
• profiling and authorship attribution;
• search for scientific and/or scholarly literature;
• work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical
use of language.
Information for authors
We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the
workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and
system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers.
• Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to
eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two
if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers
will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that
reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
• A short paper / demo presenting work in progress, or the
description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of
content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon
acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the
proceedings.
• A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed
eight (8) pages including references.
All submissions are to follow the *ACL paper styles (for LaTeX /
Overleaf and MS Word) available at
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Papers should be submitted
electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL 2025 submission website
on the SoftConf pages (we will publish the link as soon as we have it).
Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names
and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names,
acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the
authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable
minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings available
as usual in the ACL Anthology.
Important dates (tentative)
Workshop paper due: January 30, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025
Workshop date: May 3rd or 4th, 2025
More on the organizers
Diego Alves, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
Yuri Bizzoni, Center for Humanities Computing / School for Communication
and Culture, Århus University
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland
University
Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council Canada
Janis Pagel, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Ottawa
Contact
latech-clfl@googlegroups.com <mailto:latech-clfl@googlegroups.com>
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Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, DSc, Emeritus Professor
EECS, Computer Science, University of Ottawa
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Date: 2024-11-05 17:33:39+00:00
From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: Reminder: CFP: ESTS 2025: Manuscripts in the Age of Print
[Da: Elena Pierazzo <pierazzo@gmail.com>]
Dear community,
This is a kind reminder that the deadline to send your proposal for the
next forthcoming ESTS conference is fast approaching (22nd of November). We
have just upgraded our website
(https://cesr-ests2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en),
and we hope to “read” you shortly!
All the best wishes
Elena
On 24 Sep 2024, at 14:46, Elena Pierazzo <pierazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear community,
It's with great pleasure that I invite you to submit your proposals for the
forthcoming 20th conference of the European Society of Textual Scholarship,
which will be held in Tours 28-30 April 2025.
Manuscripts in the Age of Print
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The invention and relatively rapid dissemination of print in 15th- and
16th-century Western Europe did not replace manuscript culture. Whether in
the form of draft manuscripts, letters and journals, note-taking, margin
annotations, manuscript dissemination to escape control, or documentary
records, the two media—print and manuscript—continued to coexist,
intertwining and influencing each other in complex ways across the globe.
In various regions, from Europe to Asia, Africa, and the Americas,
manuscripts remained central to intellectual, cultural, and religious
practices, often complementing or resisting the spread of print. Although
recent scholarship has addressed this dynamic in specific contexts,
manuscript production is still rarely considered as a distinct phenomenon
in the early modern and modern periods across different cultures. This
oversight neglects the profound impact manuscripts had on intellectual and
cultural life worldwide, where they served as vessels for innovation,
subversion, and the preservation of alternative voices. Moreover, it
overlooks the materiality of manuscripts, which developed in specific local
and regional contexts, conveying unique physical characteristics that
shaped both the form and content of the works themselves.
The conference will explore these and other uses of manuscripts, welcoming
contributions that address:
• Manuscript production and circulation during the early modern and modern
periods
• Modern codicology and handwriting studies
• Print-to-manuscript and manuscript-to-print transitions and their
coexistence
• Hybridization of the two media across different periods and regions
• Digital representation and analysis of such documents, including
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and quantitative codicology
• Study and assembling of public and private archives and libraries
• Scholarly editing of manuscripts and hybrid documents
• Textuality of texts transmitted through manuscripts
• Social networks and manuscript production (e.g., how social
relationships, patronage, and collaboration among scribes, authors, and
intellectuals influenced manuscript production and content)
• Cross-cultural manuscript traditions (e.g., interactions between
different manuscript practices and production centers, including trade,
diplomacy, and scholarly exchanges across Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
and other regions)
• Censorship and media circulation
We also welcome contributions that examine the global persistence of
manuscript culture alongside print in the early modern and modern periods,
taking into account the diversity of manuscript traditions worldwide. This
includes exploring how manuscripts remained essential for knowledge
transmission, record-keeping, and resisting dominant discourses, even as
print technologies became increasingly prevalent.
Other topics such as the theory and practice of textual scholarship and
digital textual scholarship will also be welcomed.
Contributions to the ESTS Conference may take the following forms:
Research Papers
Individual scholars are welcome to submit proposals for papers which may
then be selected for panels. 20 minutes in length. Please supply an
abstract of 250 words (max) + bio of 100 words (max).
Panel sessions
We also invite groups of scholars (3 speakers) to submit proposals for
thematically linked research paper panels. 90 minutes in length (3 x 20
minute papers + Q&A). Please supply 3 abstracts of 150 words (max) each +
bios of 100 words (max) for each speaker. The organisers will give
preference to panels that reflect the diversity of our field.
Roundtable
We also invite groups of scholars (up to 6 speakers) to submit proposals
for thematically linked roundtable sessions. 90 minutes in length (10 mins
per speaker + Q&A). Please supply an overall abstract of 350 words (250
words) for the roundtable + bios of 100 words (max) for each speaker.
Poster sessions
We will run a poster session as part of the main conference program. Topics
of interest include all topics listed above. The poster session is an
opportunity for researchers to discuss their early/ongoing work with
attendees. Please provide an abstract of a maximum 250 words.
Submissions and information here:
https://cesr-ests2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
––
Elena PIERAZZO
Professeure en Humanités Numériques
Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance UMR 7323
Université de Tours
59 Rue Néricault Destouches – BP 12050
37020 Tours Cedex 1
ORCID: 0000-0003-1356-3884
ERC PRIMA 'Manuscripts in the Age of Print' (Grant number 101142242)
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