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Dear colleagues and friends,
On Thursday 27 June 2024, we are organising a workshop on Data-driven Approaches to Ancient Languages (DAAL) in Ghent, Belgium.
This workshop will follow immediately after the conference "Paratexts in Premodern Writing Cultures" organised by the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Please find our call for papers below as well as attached to this message. Feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested in submitting a paper.
More information can be found on our website.
Kind regards,
Colin Swaelens, Els Lefever & Ilse De Vos
- - - - - Call for Papers - - - - -
Date: June 27th, 2024
Place: Mercator A104, Abdisstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Premodern or historically attested languages are invaluable resources of both the study of diachronic linguistics and their contemporary culture. Although these languages might be from various language families or have a different script, researchers face common challenges, among which illegible or lost text (parts), inexistent gold standards and, very important these days, scarcity of data. Luckily, more and more texts become available, but the language of those texts might be so different from their modern pendant — should that modern pendant exist — that it considerably impacts the performance of existing tools. This workshop aims to provide a platform to a broad field of researchers engaged in digital approaches to pre-modern languages.
*** Keynote speaker ***
dr. Barbara McGillivray
Dpt. of Digital Humanities
King’s College London
*** Submissions ***
Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Transcription
Transliteration
Unicode
Tokenisation
Morphological analysis & Part-of-Speech Tagging
Syntactic or semantic analysis of textual data
Lemmatisation
Data-driven approaches to ancient languages
Uncertain readings & ambiguity
Language variation (diachronic, synchronic, …)
Data Quality & Data Veracity
Data science approaches for text analysis
Multilingual code-switching
Creation and annotation of digital resources
Machine Learning for Lower-Resourced Languages
Machine learning approaches for text analysis
Evaluation of NLP tools
Editorial choices (word and sentence splitting)
Inclusion of apparatus
Incomplete or damaged texts
We welcome two types of submissions:
Long papers: description of original and unpublished work in any topic area of the workshop. A long paper is limited to 8 pages for content, with unlimited number of pages for references.
Short papers: description of either work in progress or a focussed contribution (point that can be made in a few pages with sufficient level of detail). Short papers can also be in the style of a position paper that surveys and criticizes existing literature. Submissions of this type are limited to 4 pages for content, with unlimited number of pages for references.
Templates of the papers are to be found on the webpage.
*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
Paper submission due: 01/03/2024
Notification of acceptance: 19/04/2024
Final paper due: 01/06/2023
Workshop date: 27/06/2024
All deadlines are 11:59PM GMT.
*** SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE***
Luna De Bruyne (Antwerp University)
Katrien De Graef (Ghent University)
Guy De Tré (Ghent University)
Veronique Hoste (Ghent University)
Els Lefever (Ghent University)
Andreas Rhoby (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Claudia Sode (Cologne University)
Toon Van Hal (Leuven University)
website: https://www.dbbe2024.ugent.be/workshop/
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