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Humanist Archives: Dec. 5, 2024, 7:58 a.m. Humanist 38.266 - events: DH Benelux 2025 (Amsterdam); Computational Linguistics (Albuquerque)

				
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    [1]    From: marijn Koolen <marijn.koolen@gmail.com>
           Subject: 2nd Call for Abstracts DH Benelux 2025 - 3-6 June, Amsterdam, Netherlands (30)

    [2]    From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak44@gmail.com>
           Subject: Second Call for Papers: The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (151)


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        Date: 2024-12-05 07:19:02+00:00
        From: marijn Koolen <marijn.koolen@gmail.com>
        Subject: 2nd Call for Abstracts DH Benelux 2025 - 3-6 June, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Conference: DH Benelux 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2024 (23:59 CET)
Conference Dates: 4-6 June 2025 (main conference), 3 June 2025
(pre-conference workshops)
Location: Vrije Universiteit (VU) – Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Website: https://2025.dhbenelux.org/
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We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the DH Benelux 2025
Conference, which will take place between 3-6 June 2025 at the Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam. This annual conference serves as a platform for
the community of Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and
discuss their latest research findings. We invite researchers,
practitioners, scholars, and students to submit their original research,
case studies, and demos in Digital Humanities. We welcome interdisciplinary
perspectives and encourage submissions from various disciplines within the
Digital Humanities. We aim for a programme covering topics that reflect
current trends and emerging debates in Digital Humanities, providing
opportunities for diverse interdisciplinary discussions


Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2024 (23:59 CET)
Notification of acceptance: February 2025
Conference Schedule: 4-6 June 2025 (main conference), 3 June 2025
(pre-conference workshops)
Location: Vrije Universiteit (VU) – Amsterdam (Netherlands)

For more information, see https://2025.dhbenelux.org/call-for-papers/

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        Date: 2024-12-03 19:16:28+00:00
        From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak44@gmail.com>
        Subject: Second Call for Papers: The 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature

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/>

Second 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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