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WG: Release of MLNA: A New Python Package for MultiLingual Network Analysis
by Wagner, Cosima 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Zur Information weitergeleitet! Mit herzlichen Grüßen Cosima Wagner Von: multilingual-dh <multilingual-dh-bounces(a)lists.stanford.edu> Im Auftrag von Golnaz Sarkar Farshi Gesendet: Montag, 18. November 2024 15:11 An: multilingual-dh(a)lists.stanford.edu Betreff: [multilingual-dh] Release of MLNA: A New Python Package for MultiLingual Network Analysis Dear Colleagues, I'm thrilled to announce that MLNA, a Python package and app for MultiLingual Network Analysis, is now officially released! Here's the link to MLNA's official website: https://goli-sf.github.io/MLNA/ To help you get started, I've created two detailed video tutorials tailored to different user needs: * For Python Users: To learn how to use MLNA in a Python script, watch this tutorial: https://youtu.be/FuPgneZ5wGU * For Non-Programmers: To discover how to utilize the MLNA app, watch this tutorial: https://youtu.be/3c1C4b4D9BI Both videos provide a comprehensive overview of MLNA's functionality. Additionally, all the essential links and resources are included in the video descriptions. If you give MLNA a try, I'd love to hear your feedback! Warm regards, Golnaz Sarkar Farshi Dr. des. Golnaz Sarkar Farshi (pronouns: she/her) Researcher, Educatoer and Project Developer in HERMES - Humanities Education in Research, Data, and Methods MCDCI - Philipps-University Marburg Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6 H|04 Institutsgebäude<https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/universitaet/service/lageplaene/hans-meerwein…> 35032 Marburg, Germany Work email: golnaz.sarkarfarshi(a)uni-marburg.de<mailto:[email protected]>

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Lecture "Multilingual Digital Humanities Research" with Cecily Raynor
by Ommert, Eva 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Dear colleagues in the DHd-AG Multilingual DH, I would like to draw your attention to an event organized Digital Lab <https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/infrastructure/digital-lab> at the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics: Cecily Raynor (McGill University) Multilingual Digital Humanities Research: A Critical Overview In this talk, I will critically discuss multilingual digital humanities research, with a focus on practical considerations throughout the research process including the selection, assessment, and use of digital tools. We will examine some of the considerations of multilingual data-defining datasets, addressing language-specific concerns, and managing challenges such as encoding, translation, and text normalization. The session will also underscore key factors when choosing multilingual tools, including language compatibility, platform support, and data security. In addition, we will touch on the environmental and social impact of digital tools, exploring topics such as energy consumption, e-waste, and digital inclusion. Attendees will leave with practical guidance for selecting tools relevant to various stages of multilingual research, along with strategies for ensuring linguistic, cultural, and ethical awareness in their projects. 07.11.2024, 17.15-18.45h Online via Zoom: <https://uni-leipzig.zoom.us/j/67983096086?pwd=QkhNbUVpU1NyVFFPazkzRDI2KzVCQ…> https://uni-leipzig.zoom.us/j/67983096086?pwd=QkhNbUVpU1NyVFFPazkzRDI2KzVCQ… Further information: https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/zentrum/details/event/multilingual-di… All best, Eva Ommert ⸺ Eva Ommert | Forschungsdatenmanagement Digital Lab | Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) | Universität Leipzig SFB 1199: „Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen“ NFDI4Memory: „National Research Data Infrastructure for the Historically Oriented Humanities“ +49 341 97 37778 | eva.ommert(a)uni-leipzig.de Nikolaistraße 6–10 | Strohsackpassage, 5. Stock, Raum 5.61 | 04109 Leipzig

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WG: [Wg-multilingualdh] Workflows for SSH Open Marketplace, Transformations, OCR/HTR workshop
by Wagner, Cosima 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Liebe Listenmitglieder, anbei eine Weiterleitung aus der DARIAH Multilingual DH Working Group zu Eurer / Ihrer Information! Viele Grüße Cosima Wagner Von: Wg-multilingualdh <wg-multilingualdh-bounces(a)dariah.eu> Im Auftrag von Alíz Horváth via Wg-multilingualdh Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Oktober 2024 15:45 An: wg-multilingualdh(a)dariah.eu Betreff: [Wg-multilingualdh] Workflows for SSH Open Marketplace, Transformations, OCR/HTR workshop Dear All, I am happy to share the wonderful news that the 4 workflows that our working group produced together with the DARIAH Research Data Management Working Group in Hamburg in August -thanks to a DARIAH grant for working groups- as part of the Creating, Managing, and Archiving Textual Corpora in Under-resourced Languages workshop are now available on the SSH Open Marketplace! You can find the specific links below: Building Textual Corpora for Under-resourced Languages <https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/67KJnp> Managing Textual Corpora in under-resourced languages<https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/fbXfuH> Archiving Textual Corpora<https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/gDzIoY> Preparing minority or endangered language corpora for annotation in SIL FLEx<https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/MRkIZE> We hope that these workflows will help the broader scholarly community set the foundation of their respective DH projects towards a linguistically more inclusive DH community. On another note, I would also like to draw your attention to Transformations, a new overlay journal under the auspices of DARIAH, which has launched a call for submissions for its first issue (Deadline: October 31). You can find more information about the nature and mission of this interesting and, in many ways, non-standard journal here: https://transformations.episciences.org/. I am on the Scientific Committee of this journal, so if you have questions, please let me know. Finally, as discussed during our latest Bimonthly Short meeting, we are currently in the process of applying for funding opportunities to be able to organize a workshop on OCR/HTR techniques in under-resourced languages/scripts. If you are interested in contributing and are aware of any grant that you think would be relevant, please let us know. Wishing you a beautiful fall season from Vienna! Best regards, Alíz & Maroussia

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Einladung: Nächste Community Hour am 4.7.2024 um 13:00 Uhr
by Wagner, Cosima 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

Liebe Mitglieder der DHd-AG-Multilingual-DH, wir möchten Euch hiermit herzlich zur nächsten digitalen Community Hour am 4.7.2024 um 13:00 Uhr einladen. Den Zoom-Meetinglink findet Ihr unten in dieser Mail. Die Community Hour ist ein offenes Format und soll dem Austausch untereinander sowie der Vorstellung von Projekten dienen. Für das nächste Treffen haben wir folgende an TOPs gesammelt, bitte bringt gerne weitere Themen mit: * cfp<https://dhd2025.dig-hum.de/?page_id=13> der DHd 2025: AG-Beitrag: Beteiligung am OER / Datenethik Workshop von Ulrike Wuttke * Call for Participation unserer AG: Online-Formular oder/und auf der DHd 2025 den AG Slot so planen, dass man uns Informationen zu Problemen und Challenges, Fehlern etc. melden kann, die einem im Alltag zu MLDH begegnen. Inkl. möglicher Angabe von Workarounds. Dadurch wollen wir bestenfalls genug Material sammeln, um dann 2026 einen "Smashaton" oder eine "Selbsthilfegruppe Workarounds" anbieten zu können. Zusätzlich können diese Daten auch hilfreich für einen potenziellen nfdi4base Antrag sein. * Anfrage Aliz Horvath, DARIAH Multilingual DH WG: Beteiligung an der Erstellung eines MLDH Manifests * .... (offen für Eure Themen/Anliegen) Wir hoffen, möglichst viele von Euch am Donnerstag (4.7.2024) zu sehen! Meeting Link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/61930774093?pwd=Q3UvdzZjV3cxK2RGb3l4KzVJUXhiQ… Herzliche Grüße Euer Convenor Team (Cosima, Jana, Jonas und Till) _ _ _ Dr. Cosima Wagner Freie Universität Berlin | Universitätsbibliothek Forschungs- und Publikationsservices | Team Forschungsdatenmanagement Campusbibliothek | Team Ostasienstudien | Leitung Garystraße 39 | 14195 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 838-60307 cosima.wagner(a)fu-berlin.de<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/team/wagnerc/index.html

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Webinar-Hinweis zu Normdaten und Originalschrift in den USA [Eastlib] Fwd: [PCCLIST] Evaluation of non-Latin references in NARs Webinar: Registration is open
by Wagner, Cosima 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Liebe Listenmitglieder, über eine Mailingliste von US-Ostasienstudien-Bibliothekar*innen bin ich auf unten genanntes Webinar aufmerksam geworden und leite Ihnen/Euch den Hinweis auf diesem Wege weiter. Thema des Webinars sind Guidelines für Normdaten in nichtlateinischen Schriften im US-Bibliothekssystem der Library of Congress. Man kann sich anmelden und falls die Uhrzeit des Webinars aufgrund der Zeitverschiebung ungünstig ist, erhält man im Nachhinein einen Link zur Aufzeichnung. Ich dachte, da Normdaten samt LOD ein wichtiges Thema in den DH geworden sind, ist es evtl. auch aus internationaler Perspektive interessant zu erfahren, wie das Thema Normdaten in nichtlateinischen Schriften dort diskutiert wird und welchen Einfluss das dann u.U. auf DH-Forschung haben könnte, die Library of Congress Normdaten verwendet/verwenden möchte? Mit herzlichen Grüßen Cosima Wagner -- Dr. Cosima Wagner Forschungs- und Publikationsservices Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin Tel.: 030-838-60307 Email: cosima.wagner(a)fu-berlin.de<mailto:[email protected]> Webseite: https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/team/wagnerc/index.html Von: 'Naomi Shiraishi' via CEAL Eastlib <eastlib(a)googlegroups.com> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2024 23:57 An: eastlib(a)googlegroups.com Betreff: [Eastlib] Fwd: [PCCLIST] Evaluation of non-Latin references in NARs Webinar: Registration is open Dear CEAL members, On behalf of the Task Group, I am forwarding the following announcement. Best, Naomi Naomi Shiraishi, Ph. D. (pronouns: she/they) Japanese Cataloging Librarian C.V.Starr East Asian Library University of California, Berkeley (510) 664-7201 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dagher, Iman <idagher(a)library.ucla.edu<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 2:39 PM Subject: [PCCLIST] Evaluation of non-Latin references in NARs Webinar: Registration is open To: <PCCLIST(a)listserv.loc.gov<mailto:[email protected]>> Dear Colleagues, The PCC SCS Task Group on Evaluation Guidelines for Non-Latin Script References in Name Authority Records <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/scs/documents/tg-eva…> is delighted to invite you to join our webinar: Non-Latin Variants in Name Authority Records: Different Perspectives, New Practices The Task Group will present the results of its recommendations for how non-Latin script references in name authorities will be evaluated, including the coding of preferred non-Latin script variant access points and how they will be used, with examples in various non-Latin languages and scripts. Presenters: Shi Deng, Iman Dagher, Adam Schiff, and Bob Maxwell Date: Thursday, June 20, 2024 Time: 3:00 4:00 pm ET / 2:00-3:00 pm CT / 3:00-4:00 pm MT / 12:00-1:00 pm PT / 9:00-10 am HT Registration link: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dLI5VVVQTNmLhqczZQQaYg#/registrati…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dLI5VVV…> The webinar will be recorded, and the recording will be shared with registered participants Sincerely, Iman Dagher & Shi Deng, PCC-TG Co-Chairs ******************************** Iman Dagher Arabic & Islamic Studies Metadata Librarian UCLA Library. Resource Acquisitions & Metadata Services Email: idagher(a)library.ucla.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: (310) 825-8642 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CEAL Eastlib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to eastlib+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/eastlib/CAOi3PcuqeN%2BufhL2QKzDWYC32QyaJu…<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/eastlib/CAOi3PcuqeN%2BufhL2QKzDWYC32QyaJu…>.

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Einladung: Nächste Community Hour am 13.6.2024 um 13:00 Uhr
by Wagner, Cosima 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Liebe Mitglieder der DHd-AG-Multilingual-DH, wir möchten Euch hiermit herzlich zur nächsten digitalen Community Hour am 13.6.2024 um 13:00 Uhr einladen. Den Zoom-Meetinglink findet Ihr unten in dieser Mail. Die Community Hour ist ein offenes Format und soll dem Austausch untereinander sowie der Vorstellung von Projekten dienen. Für das nächste Treffen haben wir folgende an TOPs gesammelt, bitte bringt gerne weitere Themen mit: * Aktuelles / Blitzlichter von Konferenzen: Bibliocon 2024 (Hamburg), Creating Knowledge 2024 (Helsinki),... * cfp<https://dhd2025.dig-hum.de/?page_id=13> der DHd 2025: AG-Beitrag * .... (offen für Eure Themen/Anliegen) Wir hoffen, möglichst viele von Euch am Donnerstag (13.6.) zu sehen! Meeting Link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/61930774093?pwd=Q3UvdzZjV3cxK2RGb3l4KzVJUXhiQ… Herzliche Grüße Euer Convenor Team (Cosima, Jana, Jonas und Till) _ _ _ Dr. Cosima Wagner Freie Universität Berlin | Universitätsbibliothek Forschungs- und Publikationsservices | Team Forschungsdatenmanagement Campusbibliothek | Team Ostasienstudien | Leitung Garystraße 39 | 14195 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 838-60307 cosima.wagner(a)fu-berlin.de<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/team/wagnerc/index.html

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Invitation to ADHO-DARIAH Multilingual DH Mini-conference at DH2024
by Till Grallert 16 May '24

16 May '24

Liebe Listen-Abonennt:innen, Anbei sende ich Euch einen Call für die Teilnahme an eine hybriden Netzwerkveranstaltung zu multilingual DH im Rahmen von DH2024 in Virginia, die wir als Co-Chairs der SIG Multilingual DH in ADHO und der DARIAH multilingual WG organisieren. Wir würden uns freuen wenn die Eine oder der Andere Lust hätte teilzunehmen und Eure Perspektiven auf das Thema beizutragen. Details finden sich in der angehängten Email, die gerne auch weitergeleitet werden kann. Vielen Dank und mit den besten Grüßen, Till Grallert (für die Organisator:innen) > Begin forwarded message: > > Dear colleagues, > > > > We are writing on behalf of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Special Interest Group Multilingual DH (http://multilingualdh.org/) and the DARIAH Working Group on Multilingual DH (https://multilingual.hypotheses.org/) We are planning a hybrid half-day pre-conference event on global multilingual Digital Humanities in conjunction with DH2024, which will take place from 6--9 August at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Our pre-conference event will take place on Monday August 5, 2024 in the morning Eastern Time. Please note that presenting at DH2024 is NOT a requirement for participation in the SIG event. > > > Supported by ADHO, our SIG aims to connect scholars using digital humanities tools and methods on and in languages other than English. While the human condition is one of multilingualism, the Anglophone-centricity of digital humanities continues to be an impediment to DH scholars who work on, or teach with, materials in other languages---not to speak of the vast majority of scholars whose first language isn?t English or who do not work in English at all. Tools and tutorials are almost all designed to primarily work with English and any interaction with computers will necessitate the use of Latin-script. > > > Against the backdrop of DH2024?s theme of "reinvention & responsibility", we want to to bring practitioners of multilingual DH from ADHO constituent organisations together in order raise the profile of multilinguality and to learn from our respective experiences and approaches to the challenges and joys of multilingual DH in our specific geographic, linguistic and cultural contexts with the aim of making DH and ADHO a more openly multilingual endeavour. > > > > Our event will consist of 3 parts. The first part is actually before the meeting itself. We will ask our presenting participants to sign up using this Google Form (https://forms.gle/LAqFBYy8S7x5HdAx6) and record a short initial intervention of around 5 minutes, to be shared a week before the mini conference with all the mini conference participants. We imagine these short initial interventions to address the issue of multilinguality. We provide a few questions related to the role that the Multilingual SIG can play in our academic lives. We put together the following guiding questions to get the discussion started. You do not have to respond to all of them and please feel free to include your own. > > > What are your main experiences within the domains of digital and computational humanities? What are some of your challenges and successes? How do we build a community that not only supports one another but also pushes our academic agendas forward? What is something that needs to be urgently addressed, institutionally? How do you see ADHO SIG improving your work? How would you like to contribute to the joint effort? > > > Our goal in asking for recordings is to make sure that our communities can join us asynchronously and we can spend more time discussing and conversing among ourselves. We will share more details about this process soon. > > > In the morning of the mini-conference we will kick off with a fishbowl discussion<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_(conversation)_> to identify common tropes and interests which we will then discuss in in-person and online break-out sessions. In the afternoon, we close with a plenary session. > > > Do please let us know if you have any questions at all, and we do hope you will consider sharing your valuable knowledge and expertise at the workshop. > > > > All the best, > > > Merve and Till (for the ADHO SIG) > > Al?z and Maroussia (for the DARIAH WG) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Till Grallert, PhD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5739-8094 Head of Methods Innovation Lab NFDI4Memory Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften Philosophische Fakultät Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin email: till.grallert(a)hu-berlin.de mastodon: @[email protected] Latest publications - "Proper Fun? Struggles over Popular Entertainment in Late Ottoman Damascus (c.1875-1914)." In *The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East*, edited by Hala Auji, Raphael Cormack, and Alaaeldin Mahmoud, 17-38. London: I.B. Tauris, 2023. - ‘Looking at the Iceberg from below the Waterline: Stylometric Answers to Unattributed Texts in Early Arabic Periodicals’. In *Digitale Methoden in Der Geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen Und Ihre Epistemologischen Konsequenzen, Berlin, 23.-26.5.2023*, edited by Melanie Althage, Martin Dröge, Torsten Hiltmann, and Claudia Prinz, 1--15. Berlin, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10159446 (open access). - 'Open Arabic Periodical Editions: A Framework for Bootstrapped Scholarly Editions Outside the Global North'. *Digital Humanities Quarterly* 16, no. 2 (2022). http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html (open access). - 'Catch Me If You Can! Approaching the Arabic Press of the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean through Digital History'. *Geschichte und Gesellschaft* 47, no. 1 (2021): 58–89. https://doi.org/10/gkhrjr (open access).

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Erinnerung: Nächste Community Hour am 2.5.2024 um 13:00 Uhr
by Wagner, Cosima 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Liebe Mitglieder der DHd-AG-Multilingual-DH, wir möchten Euch hiermit an die turnusmäßig anstehende digitale Community Hour am 2.5. 2024 um 13 Uhr erinnern. Den Zoom-Meetinglink findet Ihr unten in dieser Mail. Die Community Hour ist ein offenes Format und soll dem Austausch untereinander sowie der Vorstellung von Projekten dienen. Für das nächste Treffen haben wir folgende an TOPs gesammelt, bitte bringt gerne weitere Themen mit: * Nächste Schritte Planung der gemeinsamen Publikation im Sammelband "From Global to Local? Digitale Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften: ein Triptychon" (Verschriftlichung des DHd 2024 Panels zu "Mehrsprachigkeit und Kleine Fächer in den DH" * Vorbereitung Treffen mit Peter Gietz (DAASI) bezüglich Einbringen des Themas Multilingualität im digitalen Raum in die NFDI via eines "Base4NFDI" Antrags * .... (offen für Eure Themen/Anliegen) Wir hoffen, möglichst viele von Euch am 2.5.2024 zu sehen! Meeting Link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/61930774093?pwd=Q3UvdzZjV3cxK2RGb3l4KzVJUXhiQ… Herzliche Grüße Euer Convenor Team (Cosima, Jana, Jonas und Till) _ _ _ Dr. Cosima Wagner Freie Universität Berlin | Universitätsbibliothek Forschungs- und Publikationsservices | Team Forschungsdatenmanagement Campusbibliothek | Team Ostasienstudien | Leitung Garystraße 39 | 14195 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 838-60307 cosima.wagner(a)fu-berlin.de<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/team/wagnerc/index.html

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Bridging Sociological Studies in the Digital Age
by Andrea Farina 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

DEADLINE EXTENSION The Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to host the international conference Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Bridging Sociological Studies in the Digital Age on 11 June 2024. The conference will be in-person only and will take place in London, at King’s College London Strand Campus (WC2R 2LS), where the Department of Digital Humanities is based. The event aims to foster discussions and collaborations across various disciplines, specifically including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Sciences, and Social Media and Digital Methods in broader research in Digital Humanities. In an era defined by unprecedented connectivity and vast digital datasets, the intersection of NLP, Social Sciences, and Social Media alongside Digital Methods sparks a profound dialogue, reshaping our understanding of human behavior and societal dynamics within vast digital ecosystems. NLP emerges as a transformative force, equipping computers with the ability to comprehend, interpret, and generate human language, bridging the gap between digital data and human insights. This integration with Social Sciences fosters a multidisciplinary framework, enabling nuanced analyses of cultural phenomena, societal trends, and individual behaviors within digital realms. Concurrently, Social Media platforms emerge as dynamic arenas, offering real-time glimpses into human interactions, preferences, and sentiments, thus serving as invaluable sources for both NLP-driven research and social science inquiry. Through this interconnected dialogue, researchers navigate the complexities of the digital landscape, uncovering layers of meaning and driving innovation at the nexus of technology, social sciences, and digital methods. The conference will feature keynote speakers for each of the its main thematic areas: Andrea Nini (Manchester University) for Linguistics and NLP, Chiara Amini (UCL) for Social Sciences, and Tim Highfield (University of Sheffield) for Social Media and Digital Methods. They will offer insights into the latest advancements, challenges, and future directions within their respective fields, enriching the interdisciplinary dialogue and inspiring attendees to explore innovative avenues at the intersection of sociological studies and the digital age. For this conference, we invite submissions of abstracts in English focusing on the intersection of sociological studies and the digital age. Abstracts should be tailored for presentations lasting 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes allotted for questions. We particularly welcome submissions in the following areas or any intersection between them: 1. NLP 2. Social Sciences 3. Social Media and Digital Methods We encourage submissions from researchers, scholars, practitioners, and postgraduate researchers who are exploring innovative approaches, methodologies, and findings within these domains. Submission Guidelines: * Abstracts should not exceed 300 words in length. * Abstracts should include the name of the author(s) and their affiliation(s). * Abstracts should clearly outline the research objectives, methodology, and, possibly, anticipated contributions to the field. * Abstracts must be submitted via email to andrea.farina[at]kcl.ac.uk by 1st May 2024. Please write “ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference” as the object of your email. * Please indicate the preferred topic area for your presentation (NLP, Social Sciences, Social Media and Digital Methods). * Notification of acceptance: 10 May 2024. For inquiries and further information, please contact Andrea Farina at andrea.farina[at]kcl.ac.uk. The organisers: Andrea Farina, Rendan Liu, Chiara Mignani, Zhi Ye Conference Contact: andrea.farina[at]kcl.ac.uk

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Call for abstracts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Bridging Sociological Studies in the Digital Age
by Andrea Farina 14 Mar '24

14 Mar '24

The Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London is pleased to host the international conference Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Bridging Sociological Studies in the Digital Age on 11 June 2024. The conference will be in-person only and will take place in London, at King’s College London Strand Campus (WC2R 2LS), where the Department of Digital Humanities is based. The event aims to foster discussions and collaborations across various disciplines, specifically including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Sciences, and Social Media and Digital Methods in broader research in Digital Humanities. In an era defined by unprecedented connectivity and vast digital datasets, the intersection of NLP, Social Sciences, and Social Media alongside Digital Methods sparks a profound dialogue, reshaping our understanding of human behavior and societal dynamics within vast digital ecosystems. NLP emerges as a transformative force, equipping computers with the ability to comprehend, interpret, and generate human language, bridging the gap between digital data and human insights. This integration with Social Sciences fosters a multidisciplinary framework, enabling nuanced analyses of cultural phenomena, societal trends, and individual behaviors within digital realms. Concurrently, Social Media platforms emerge as dynamic arenas, offering real-time glimpses into human interactions, preferences, and sentiments, thus serving as invaluable sources for both NLP-driven research and social science inquiry. Through this interconnected dialogue, researchers navigate the complexities of the digital landscape, uncovering layers of meaning and driving innovation at the nexus of technology, social sciences, and digital methods. The conference will feature keynote speakers for each of the its main thematic areas: Andrea Nini (Manchester University) for Linguistics and NLP, Chiara Amini (UCL) for Social Sciences, and Tim Highfield (University of Sheffield) for Social Media and Digital Methods. They will offer insights into the latest advancements, challenges, and future directions within their respective fields, enriching the interdisciplinary dialogue and inspiring attendees to explore innovative avenues at the intersection of sociological studies and the digital age. For this conference, we invite submissions of abstracts in English focusing on the intersection of sociological studies and the digital age. Abstracts should be tailored for presentations lasting 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes allotted for questions. We particularly welcome submissions in the following areas or any intersection between them: 1. NLP 2. Social Sciences 3. Social Media and Digital Methods We encourage submissions from researchers, scholars, practitioners, and postgraduate researchers who are exploring innovative approaches, methodologies, and findings within these domains. Submission Guidelines: * Abstracts should not exceed 300 words in length. * Abstracts should include the name of the author(s) and their affiliation(s). * Abstracts should clearly outline the research objectives, methodology, and, possibly, anticipated contributions to the field. * Abstracts must be submitted via email to andrea.farina[at]kcl.ac.uk by 20 April 2024.Please write “ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference” as the object of your email. * Please indicate the preferred topic area for your presentation (NLP, Social Sciences, Social Media and Digital Methods). * Notification of acceptance: 10 May 2024. For inquiries and further information, please contact Andrea Farina at andrea.farina[at]kcl.ac.uk. The organisers: Andrea Farina, Rendan Liu, Chiara Mignani, Zhi Ye Conference Contact: andrea.farina[at]kcl.ac.uk

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