[All] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - LREC2014 Workshop - LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROCESSING AND LINKING , HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND ARCHIVES

[Steven Krauwer]

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROCESSING AND LINKING
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND ARCHIVES –LRT4HDA –Deploying Linked Open Data
in Cultural Heritage

Full-day Workshop organised in conjunction with the LREC 2014
Conference (http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/)
26 May 2014 Reykjavík, Iceland

http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LTforHisLangArhives2014
- SPECIAL TRACK on Digital Acquisition and Analysis of Historical
Newspaper Collections -

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MOTIVATION:
Recently, collaboration between the NLP community and specialists
in various areas of the Humanities has become more efficient and
fruitful due to the common aim of exploring and preserving
cultural heritage data. It is worth mentioning the efforts made
during the digitisation campaigns in the last years and within a
series of initiatives in the Digital Humanities, especially in
making old manuscripts available through Digital Libraries.

Given the number of contemporary languages and their historical
variants, it is practically impossible to develop brand new
language resources and tools for processing older texts.
Therefore, the real challenge is to adapt existing language
resources and tools, as well as to provide (where necessary)
training material in the form of corpora or lexicons for a
certain period of time in history.

Another issue regarding historical documents is their usage after
they are stored in digital libraries. Historical documents are
not only browsed but together with adequate tools they may serve
as basis for re-interpretation of historical facts, discovery of
new connections, causal relations between events etc. In order to
be able to make such analysis, historical documents should be
linked among themselves, on the one hand, and with modern
knowledge bases, on the other. Activities in the area of Linked
Open Data (LOD) play a major role in this respect.

A particular type of historical documents are the newspaper
collections and archives. Newspapers reflect what is going on in
society, and constitute a rich data collection for many types of
humanities research, ranging from history, political and social
sciences to linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic, and both
national and cross-national. They represent an important resource
for analysis of changes at all levels which emerged in Europe
with begin of the industrialization period.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working
in the interdisciplinary domain of cultural heritage, specialists
in natural language and speech processing working with
less-resourced languages as well as key players among Linked Open
Data initiatives. They are expected to analyse problems and
brainstorm solutions in the automatic analysis of historical
documents, uni- or multimedia, their deep annotation and
interlinking.

The workshop is organised in collaboration with CLARIN
(http://www.clarin.eu)

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
We are looking for contributions on original, unpublished work in
the topic areas of the workshop, including (but not limited to)
the following:
- Language tools and resources for the analysis of older textual
   material;
- Adaptation of language technology tools developed for modern
   languages to their historical variants; transcription and
   transliteration problems and solutions;
- Named Entity Recognition for historical texts;
- Development of dedicated historical corpora and lexica as
   Linked Open Data;
- (Semi-) automatic extraction of content related metadata;
- Semantic linkage of heterogeneous data within digital
   libraries;
  - Linkage of historical documents with available Linked Open
    Data;
- Word sense disambiguation in old texts;
- Multilingual issues in historical texts;
- Applications concerning less resourced cultural heritage
   languages such as Old Norse, early Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Old
   Church Slavonic, older forms of Balkan languages. A special
   track will be dedicated to the acquisition and analysis of
   historical newspaper archives. Submissions fort his special
   track should address topics related to following aspects:
   Determining if, for a given language and period, digital (or
   digitised) newspapers exist at all. Access rights to digital
   newspaper collection for research purposes, and for publishing
   the results
- OCR solutions and limitations
- Extraction of articles from digitised archives
- Metadata annotation
- Showcases of successful humanities research projects based on
   digital or digitised newspapers
- Publishing, sharing and storing results and by-products
   SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions should be made through the
   system of the main LREC conference. Papers describing completed
   work should be no longer than eight pages. Papers describing
   work in progress should be between four and six pages. We
   encourage in particular the demonstration of prototype systems,
   and papers including reference to an existing prototype will be
   offered the possibility to demonstrate their system in a
   particular session.

Papers should respect the LREC formatting guidelines. Papers will
be reviewed by minimum 3 members of the Programme Committee.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be
asked to provide essential information about resources (in a
broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits,
etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or
are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all
LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services,
etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments,
including evaluation ones.

Submissions for the workshop can be done using the following link

http://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/LRT4HDA/

Papers dealing with processing of newspaper archives should be
submitted to the "Newspaper" track all the other to "main track".



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline  9 February 2014
Notification of acceptance: 9 March 2014
Final papers  due 23 March 2014


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


Kristín Bjarnadóttir (The Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies
Iceland),
Matthew Driscoll (Arnamagnean Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark),
Steven Krauwer (CLARIN ERIC, Netherlands)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athens, Greece),
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Martin Wynne (Oxford, UK)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE


Lars Borin. (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Rafael Carrasco (University of Alicante, Spain)
Paul Doorenbosch (National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands)
Thorhallur Eythorsson (University of Iceland)
Alexander Geyken (BBAW, Germany
Günther Görz (University Erlangen, Germany)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Guillaume Jacquet (JRC, Italy)
Marc Kupietz (IDS, Germany)
Éric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Piroska Lendvai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Thierry Paquet (LITIS, France)
Gábor Prószéky (MorphoLogic, Hungary)
Bente Maegaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Christian Emil Ore (University of Oslo, Norway)
Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, (University of Iceland)
Petya Osenova (IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Manfred Thaller (Cologne University, Germany, Germany)
Tamás Váradi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Matthew Whelpton,  (University of Iceland.)
Kalliopi Zervanou (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands)


CONTACT:
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
cristina DOT vertan AT uni-hamburg.de

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Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL
phone: +31 30 2536050, email: s.krauwer at uu.nl,  http://www-sk.let.uu.nl