[All] Reminder: Exploring Historical Sources with Language Technology

[Martin Wynne]

Apologies for forgetting to include the dates of the meeting in the 
recent announcement. The workshop will take place *8-9 December 2014* in 
the  Hague. Here are the key dates:

- Wednesday 3 September 2014:  deadline for applications to attend and 
to present papers
- Monday 15 September 2014:  notification of acceptance of attendees and 
presentations
- Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 December 2014: workshop dates

Full details at 
http://clarin.eu/event/2014/exploring-historical-sources-language-technology-results-and-perspectives


On 27/08/14 10:04, Martin Wynne wrote:
> An international workshop will take place at the Huygens Institute for 
> the History of the Netherlands, and is the joint effort of two major 
> Europe-wide initiatives: CLARIN (Common Language Resource and Tools 
> Infrastructure) and NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts 
> and Humanities). Applications are invited from those you would like to 
> attend, and from those who would like to present a paper.
>
> The goal of the workshop is to demonstrate how the application of 
> language technology has produced a new understanding of texts in 
> different fields of Humanities. The proliferation of digital resources 
> in the Humanities is leading to the elaboration of new methods, 
> concepts, and theories by means of which researchers can query and 
> interpret large-scale textual collections. The workshop will bring 
> together researchers who already apply language technology, and those 
> who would like to learn about the current state of art in this new and 
> evolving area. The organizers invite researchers (especially early 
> career scholars) who plan to apply language technology but do not 
> already have the necessary skills and technical background. The second 
> main goal of the workshop is to enhance exchange of experiences, 
> disseminate know-how, and to explore potential future collaborations.
>
> /Keynote speaker/: Professor*Tony McEnery*(ESRC Centre for Corpus 
> Approaches to Social Science <http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/>, Lancaster 
> University). Other speakers to be confirmed.
>
> If you would like to participate, you have until 3 September 2014 to 
> apply for a place. Please complete this simple online form 
> (http://bit.ly/explorehistory), where you are asked for some details 
> and a short statement of the reasons for your interest in 
> participating. Thanks to generous funding from NeDiMAH and CLARIN, 
> participation will be free of charge, and funds will be available to 
> reimburse travel and accommodation expenses for a number of 
> participants. NeDiMAH is funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
>
> If you would like to submit a proposal to give a presentation at the 
> workshop on your research results, please send it by email 
> toexploringhistory at clarin.eu <mailto:exploringhistory at clarin.eu>by 
> 17:00 CET on Wednesday 3rd September 2014. Proposals for presentations 
> should be 400-500 words in length. This is not essential for 
> participation, and if you do not submit a presentation, you will still 
> have a chance to give a short presentation of your work, or to ask 
> questions. Proposals should focus on research results, not 
> descriptions of projects, resources or methods.
>
> Please get in touch if you have any questions about the event.
> -- 
> Martin Wynne
> IT Services, University of Oxford
> Oxford e-Research Centre
> Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
> Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC

-- 
Martin Wynne
IT Services, University of Oxford
Oxford e-Research Centre
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC

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