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Call for chapters : Digital Humanities: Application of Computer to the Arts and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
by Enrico Natale 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for an upcoming book project that focuses on the intersection of technology and the arts within the realm of Digital Humanities. As technology continues to evolve, its impact on various disciplines, including the arts, is becoming increasingly significant. This book aims to explore the diverse ways in which computers and digital tools are applied to enhance and transform the landscape of humanities research, particularly within artistic domains. The book also aims to provide a critical overview of the field to the growing African digital humanities community. Scope of the Book: We invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to contribute original research papers, and reviews that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics: Digital tools and methodologies in art history The DH techniques tools for data analysis The adoption of DH tools for entrepreneurship Computational analysis of literature and literary studies Digital Pedagogy Virtual and augmented reality applications in the arts Digital archives and preservation of cultural heritage Interactive storytelling and digital narratives Computer-generated art and creative coding Machine learning and artificial intelligence in the arts Digital musicology and computational music analysis Digital humanities in film and media studies Ethical considerations in digital humanities research Application of computer technology in historical research methods Scriptwriting and storytelling in the digital age Digital history and its impact on historiography Black Digital Humanities Critical Black Data Studies Collaborations between the arts and other academic disciplines Interdisciplinary approaches to digital humanities projects Ethical considerations in interdisciplinary digital research Case studies highlighting successful interdisciplinary initiatives Innovations in the integration of technology into diverse academic fields Digital Humanities and Environmental History Security and DH Migration, Border studies and DH Digitalising museums, archives, cultural heritages, crafts and artifacts Submission Guidelines: Each potential contributor should submit an abstract of between 250 and 300 words as well as a previously published complete paper electronically to dhprojectng(a)gmail.com. The accepted and corrected paper of not more than 5000 words prepared as Microsoft Word document should include author’s name, title of the paper, institutional affiliation, email address, phone number. Papers should be in British English, Times New Roman, 12 Font Size, 1.5-line spacing and should conform to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style (footnotes and Bibliography). A short bio-data of not more than 100 words should be submitted along with the paper. Each paper/chapter will undergo series of screening and blind peer review. Manuscripts should be original and not previously published. Submissions should be sent to dhprojectng(a)email.com Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 20, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2024 Final Manuscript Due: July 28, 2024 Expected Publication: December 2024 Review Process: All submitted papers will undergo a peer-review process to ensure the quality and relevance of the contributions. The selected papers will be compiled into a comprehensive book volume that provides a valuable resource for researchers, educators, and practitioners in the field of Digital Humanities. Book Editors: Professor Tunde Ope-Davies, Department of English and Linguistics Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos Nigeria Professor Oluranti Ojo, Department of History and Diplomatic Studies University of Abuja, Nigeria Dr. Abayomi Saibu, Department of History and International Studies Anchor University Lagos Nigeria Felix Oke, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities Loyola University Chicago, USA Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Gutenbergstrasse 37 3011 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 Abonnez-vous à la newsletter <https://www.infoclio.ch/fr/newsletter> d’infoclio.ch Follow infoclio.ch on Mastodon <https://fedihum.org/@infoclio>

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Call for Papers: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing - 18th - 19th June 2024
by Dario Del Fante 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Please forward as appropriate. Please note, there is no fee for registration. *Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing - 18th - 19th June 2024 - University of Ferrara* This conference aims to discuss the representation of epidemic remedies in medical writing in England and in France between 1500 and 1920. Prospective presenters are invited to address epidemic remedies across five centuries, bearing three main methodological observations in mind. Firstly, the pivotal role of the plague and the Spanish influenza as opening and closing points to the selected timeframe. Secondly, the working definition of “remedy” as a cure “for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.” (OED, remedy 2). This comprehensive definition intends to allow for historical specification and diachronic terminological variation, which the prospective presenters are invited to explore and specify. Thirdly, the definition of representation as “the process by which members of a culture use language (broadly defined as any system which deploys signs, any signifying system) to produce meaning” (Hall 1997: 61), with particular emphasis on language use at lexical and discourse level, as well as the interaction between semiotic systems (e.g. word and image). The present aim is not only to offer a diachronic perspective on the linguistic and visual representation of remedies, but also to focus on remedies prescribed during epidemics, with a view to better understanding the history of medical and health communication. Potential research questions straddle multiple standpoints - historical linguistics, the analysis of discourse, the analysis of lexis, as well as images - and multiple text types (medical treatises, medical dictionaries, periodical publications, medical advertisements through time). They include but are not limited to: - The lexical description of remedies in medical writing - The metaphorical description of remedies in medical writing - The rhetorical construction of ethos in medical writing dealing with epidemic remedies - The visual representation of remedies in medical writing - The visual representation of remedies in newspapers/magazines - The linguistic-visual construal of remedies in texts containing multiple semiotic systems (i.e. advertisements) - the insurgence of misinformation and disinformation in/about health communication (these categories may be epistemologically relevant in papers dealing with the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries) We invite proposals from a wide range of methodological perspectives. To name but a few: corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, historical lexicography and terminology, new historicism, cultural theory, epistemology, philosophy of science, gender medicine, and gender theory. Please submit a *one-page abstract *(*ca. 200 – 300 words excluding references*). Presentations (*in English or in French*) will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. All research papers should be delivered in person. All abstracts should be submitted to *remediesconference2023(a)unife.it <remediesconference2023(a)unife.it>*. All abstracts should be *anonymised *and include *a title *and up to *five keywords*. *Key dates:* - The call for papers opens on 15 January 2024. - The deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2024. - Notification of acceptance (or rejection) will be sent out by 15 April 2024. - Registration commences on 1 May 2024. - The conference will take place from 18 to 19 June 2024. CfP Attached. Conference Website <https://www.unife.it/it/cla/progetti/epidemic-remedies-in-medical-writing-1…> -- *Dario Del Fante, PhD* Junior Assistant Professor (Rtd-A) English Language and Linguistics *Humanities Department - University of Ferrara* Via Paradiso 12 - 44121 Ferrara E-mail: dario.delfante(a)unife.it

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Fwd: CfP - Plotting Poetry 7 - Metres of Humour
by PlottingPoetryHumour 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, This is a gentle reminder that the deadline is approaching for the upcoming Plotting Poetry “Metres of Humour” conference, to be held in June in Einsiedeln (Switzerland). Please, find below the Call for Papers (CfP). The deadline for abstract submission is March 1, 2024. Best regards, Anne-Sophie, Nils, Petr, Pablo *PLOTTING POETRY 7: Metres of Humour.* 26-27-28 June, 2024 Einsiedeln, Switzerland *Call for Papers* *Plotting Poetry* is a conference series focussed on computational, statistical and other quantitative approaches for the study of poetic texts, and of poeticity more broadly. This quantitative focus, this insistence on the formalization and operationalisation of texts, from simple pen and paper counting and compiling to complex algorithms, provides us with a number of paths to analyze, describe, interpret, attribute, classify, track and generally access the texts. The Plotting Poetry conferences bring together a friendly community of researchers, and articles rooted in the conference papers have given rise to several peer-reviewed collective volumes. The name of the group stems from an effort to translate a (perfectly serious) pun by the French modernist poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who in 1917 wrote that poets should “[machiner] poetry as has been done for the world”, where the verb *machiner* is visibly used for* mechanize*, although it really means *to plot*, as one would *plot* a coup. In this group, we are plotting against our own limitations by trying to plot literature on graphs, devising mechanized approaches to dissect the mechanics of poetry. This year’s conference welcomes a focus on the many forms of humour in verse. Although verse and humour might appear to sit at opposite ends of a literary hierarchy of taste and sophistication, the two have appeared together for as long as verse has been written, sung, played, shared or shouted. Versified humour can be found in popular productions and in highbrow literature, with poets writing lighter pieces alongside their other productions, as well as including humorous passages within their serious works. Both materials - humour and verse - rely on a departure from *bona fide* communication, seeking to harness the shortcomings of language, to create layered meanings and to trigger an additional effort from the recipient trying to make sense of incongruous or opaque utterances. Whilst ambiguity would be an enemy of efficient communication, it is a staple of both humour and poetry. Versification usually provides us with a reassuring sameness, and versified humour sometimes relies on this learned expectation of sameness, taking advantage of our prior knowledge in order to mislead us. This happens when an unexpected approximate rhyme brings to mind the obscene word that would provide a similar yet perfect rhyme. Or when the choice of a specific metre, with its baggage of associated uses and meanings, helps create parody or satire. Or even, very simply, when the stanzaic structure of a poem builds then breaks the monotony of lines, signaling the humorous intent of its punchline. In French, the punchline of a joke and the striking end of a poem are both named *la chute*: the fall. Verse has an ability to leave an impression on our minds and memories, and as such can readily serve persuasion efforts, from slogans or commercials to epic poems and state propaganda. Humour is often a deeply political reality. Despite its affinity with taboo subjects and irreverence, one of humour’s regular uses is to spread and maintain stereotypes, assert domination, and strengthen the feelings of belonging and allegiance through a so-called universality. This humour of the dominant tends to suppress minority voices and singular perspectives, requiring the dominated to laugh along in an effort to fit with the in-group. And yet, it can also be used as a weapon for attacking the order in place, voicing singularities, and questioning the established norms. Examining the powers of those two phenomena, one can wonder: What happens when a versified text is humorous, and what when a humorous text is in verse? Can shared regularities be found in the many verse forms of humorous texts? Can we measure those, and how? Should, or can, the funniness of it be taken into account, or even just its humorous intent, despite the high degree of cultural, linguistic and historical specificity? Papers addressing humour alongside verse or other highly-controlled and rhythmical forms are all welcome, whether written, read, sung or smuggled, from the lowest to the highest registers, from any time period and any language area. This focus on humour in verse is not an exclusive one, and we encourage the submission of papers that use quantitative tools and methods in investigating poetry or poeticity, regardless of their link to humorous poetry. Besides, as has been traditional at Plotting Poetry conferences, works on other genres may also be included, provided that a mechanization or quantification apparatus is being used to explore their poeticity. Some of the topics to consider include but are not limited to: - Verse forms and meters used and misused for lighter pieces - Stanzaic structures and their use in humour - Puns and their relationship to versification - Versification as a target of humour - Slogans and propaganda - Standup as poetry - Musical forms of humour (song, rap…) - … For this 7th Plotting Poetry conference, we will be convening in the Swiss village of Einsiedeln, in the canton of Schwyz. In order to secure a better deal and to make this event affordable for everyone, we will be handling and largely funding the conference hotel ourselves, and the participants will be charged a reasonable fee. Please, submit your abstracts (max. 1600 characters including spaces) via this form <https://forms.gle/SoU9RWCmMLEvgchF8> until March 1, 2024. Should you have *any* further questions, you can get in touch at: plottingpoetryhumour(a)gmail.com *Timeline:* Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March, 2024 Notification of acceptance: 15 March, 2024 Confirmation of participation: 1 May, 2024 *Organizers & programme committee:* Anne-Sophie Bories, Nils Couturier, Petr Plecháč, Pablo Ruiz Fabo *Webpage:* https://www.plottingpoetry.org/conference/2024einsiedeln/cfp

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[CfP] ISWC 2024 Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers: deadline May 2nd, 2024
by Sebastián Ferrada 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024 http://iswc2024.semanticweb.org Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers: https://bit.ly/iswc2024DC Submissions due: May 2nd, 2024 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2024 ISWC is the premier venue for presenting state of the art research and innovative systems related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both academia and industry. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for representing, accessing, interpreting, and using information on the Web in a more effective way. == Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers == The ISWC Doctoral Consortium will provide PhD students an opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas in a supportive, formative and yet critical environment, receive feedback from mentors, typically senior members of the Semantic Web research community, and peers, explore career pathways available after completing a PhD degree, and to network and build collaborations with other members of the community. The event is intended for students who have articulated a reasonably detailed research proposal, preferably supported by some preliminary results. The aim is to support the students in refining their proposal and suggest possible ways to improve their research plan and achieve results with prospective greater impact. While doctoral degrees can vary in format and conduct, we aim this Call for Papers to PhD candidates who will have already partially investigated some specific problems. Students will be required to submit a paper to the doctoral consortium, structured like a research proposal. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a careful review process by the International Programme Committee, who will provide detailed and constructive feedback and select those submissions to be presented at the Doctoral Consortium. If accepted, students will have to register and attend the event, which will include a range of interactive activities. Track Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann - Mines Saint-Étienne, France Kerry Taylor - Australian National University, Australia Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024DC For any question or request, please contact the Doctoral Consortium Chairs at iswc2024-doctoral-consortium(a)easychair.org.

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ADHO’s Roberto Busa Prize 2024: Susan Brown
by Fabio Ciotti 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce that Susan Brown, Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship at the University of Guelph, has been awarded ADHO’s Roberto Busa Prize. My warmest congratulations to Susan. I have been working with her for the last ten years in the ADHO governing bodies, and she has been a marvellous colleague and an excellent scholar. This achievement is well-deserved. Fabio Ciotti Chair EADH Exec -- Professor Fabio Ciotti Dept. "Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte" University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) Editor-in-Chief, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti @fabiociotti@fedihum.org f.ciotti(a)pec.it

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LT4HALA 2024 -- deadline extension -- Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages @ LREC COLING 2024
by Rachele Sprugnoli 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

LT4HALA 2024 -- deadline extension -- Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages @ LREC COLING 2024 The Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA 2024) will be held on May 25th in Torino (Italy), co-located with LREC-COLING 2024. This one-day workshop seeks to bring together scholars, who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. Submission deadline: 26th February 2024 **NEW DEADLINE: 1st March 2024** Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/ <https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/> Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/lt4hala2024/ <https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/lt4hala2024/>

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CFP SRDH-Doctoral Symposium Unige e Unito 2024
by Andrea Marra 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

CON INVITO A DIFFONDERE CALL FOR PAPERS (S)oggetto della ricerca Prospettive critiche e intersezioni nelle Digital Humanities DH DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM UNIGE-UNITO 2024 20-21 Maggio 2024 (Genova, Italia) - English below - Le dottorande e i dottorandi del Dottorato in Digital Humanities del Consorzio UniGe-UniTo invitano a presentare contributi in occasione del DH Doctoral Symposium 2024 che si terrà il 20 e il 21 Maggio: (S)oggetto della Ricerca. Prospettive Critiche e Intersezioni nelle Digital Humanities. Il convegno interdisciplinare intende esplorare più in dettaglio il concetto di “lack of cultural criticism” (Fiormonte 2012) e di “situated knowledge” (Haraway 1988), nelle loro molteplici declinazioni nell’ambito delle DH: in particolare, il ruolo attivo e incarnato del ricercatore, le opportunità derivanti dall’applicazione delle tecnologie informatiche agli studi umanistici e le sfide legate all’impiego di strumenti tecnologici, solitamente considerati neutrali, ma che influenzano profondamente le epistemologie e le pratiche degli studi umanistici. Accogliamo prospettive provenienti dall’analisi storica e filologica qualitativa e quantitativa, dalla critica culturale e dalle discipline sociologiche, letterarie, artistiche e linguistiche supportate da approcci digitali e computazionali. Si presterà attenzione alle egemonie linguistiche, geografiche e culturali delle DH, ai grandi temi della comunicazione e dell’informatica del dominio, ai bias introdotti dall’uso esteso dei Large Language Models e alle complesse interazioni tra intelligenza artificiale, pratiche e beni artistici e culturali, anche in ottica di una didattica delle DH e/o attraverso i suoi strumenti. ———————— Studios* interessat* potranno sottoporre a revisione abstract anonimizzati e originali di massimo 500 parole (bibliografia esclusa) in formato pdf tramite la piattaforma easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srdh2024 entro e non oltre il 26 marzo 2024. Si richiede ai candidati di fornire un titolo del contributo, un massimo di 5 keywords e una breve biobibliografia. Sono ammessi contributi in lingua inglese, francese o italiana. La durata massima per ciascun intervento sarà di 15 minuti. La partecipazione al convegno è gratuita. I contributi accettati saranno raccolti e pubblicati successivamente alla conferenza in un volume edito dalla Genova University Press. ——————— Keynote speakers: Chris Biemann (Hamburg University) Paola Ciandrini (Chiesi. R&D Project Management - Archives Management & Systems) Fabio Ciotti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) Luigi Di Caro (Università degli Studi di Torino) Matteo Di Cristofaro (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Laura Moretti (University of St. Andrews) Nuria Rodríguez Ortega (UMA, Universidad de Málaga) Francesca Tomasi (Università degli Studi di Bologna) _________________________________________________________________________ WITH A REQUEST FOR DISSEMINATION CALL FOR PAPERS Subjects of Research Critical Perspectives and Intersections in the Digital Humanities DH DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM UNIGE-UNITO 2024 20-21 May 2024 (Genoa, Italy) PhD students enrolled in the Digital Humanities PhD course at the Universities of Genoa and Turin invite you to send in your contributions to participate in the DH Doctoral Symposium 2024, which will be held on 20-21 May 2024: Subjects of Research. Critical Perspectives and Intersections in the Digital Humanities. The interdisciplinary symposium aims to further explore the concepts of “lack of cultural criticism” (Fiormonte 2012) and “situated knowledge” (Haraway 1988), which have been conjugated in their multiple facets in the field of DH. In particular, it will focus on the active and embodied role of the researcher, on the opportunities created by the application of Information Technology to the Humanities, and on the challenges presented by the use of technological tools, that are usually considered neutral, but which deeply influence the epistemologies and practices of the Humanities themselves. We encourage perspectives drawn from qualitative and quantitative historical and philological analysis, cultural criticism, and sociological, literary, artistic and linguistic disciplines, supported by digital and computational approaches. Attention will be paid to the linguistic, geographical and cultural hegemonies of DH, to the major issues of communication and the so-called “informatics of domination”, to the bias introduced by the extended use of Large Language Models, and to the complexity of interactions between Artificial Intelligence and artistic and cultural heritages and practices. This last topic will also be considered from the didactic perspective of DH and/or through its tools. Interested scholars are invited to submit anonymised abstracts of a maximum of 500 words (excluding bibliography) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srdh2024 by 26 March 2024 in PDF format. Candidates will be asked to provide title, a maximum of 5 keywords and a short bio-bibliography. Papers can be written in English, French or Italian. The maximum duration of each presentation will be 15 minutes. The attendance at the conference is free of charge. Accepted papers will be included after the conference in a volume published by Genova University Press. ——————— Keynote speakers: Chris Biemann (Hamburg University) Paola Ciandrini (Chiesi. R&D Project Management - Archives Management & Systems) Fabio Ciotti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) Luigi Di Caro (Università degli Studi di Torino) Matteo Di Cristofaro (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Laura Moretti (University of St. Andrews) Nuria Rodríguez Ortega (UMA, Universidad de Málaga) Francesca Tomasi (Università degli Studi di Bologna) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrea Marra (he/they) *PhD Student in Digital Humanities * *(Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Onomastics) University of Turin / University of Genoa*

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[CfP] 2nd Call for Contributions to WISDOMS : Ethics, Values, and Knowledge Graphs
by wisdoms.publicity＠gmail.com 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

[Apologies for potential crossposting] Only two weeks to the final deadline to WISDOMS 2024! The workshop focusing on the integration of data semantics, ontologies, moral values, and their societal impact About the Workshop: The growing influence of AI in our daily lives has transformed both the digital landscape and the way we generate, extract and represent information. The surge in using Large Language Models (LLMs) not only in academia and industry but among the public, has made it increasingly important to address the alignment of AI tools to moral and cultural human values. Despite ongoing governmental work on developing ethical guidelines and practical requirements for AI, for academic and industrial applications there is a particular importance to ensure that the research respective practical methods follow ethical practices and that the outcomes do not conflict with moral values. As hybridizing knowledge structures and semantic data with generative AI has a high impact potential for the development of increasingly more complex and intelligent systems, it becomes of the utmost important that such innovation adheres to the EU’s objective of realizing AI applications that are dependable, robust, explicable, ethically guided, and therefore trustworthy. The first edition of WISDOMS, the Workshop on Integrating the Semantics of Data, Ontologies, Moral and cultural values and their Societal impact, aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and those curious enough to explore the convergence of ethics, socio-behavioral norms, moral and cultural values, with hybrid neuro-symbolic knowledge structures and generative AI. Join us in discussing the socio-ethical boundaries of AI innovation! Important Dates: • Submission Deadline: March 7, 2024 • Author Notification: April 4, 2024 • Final Version Due: April 18, 2024 • Workshop Dates: May 26/27, 2024 List of Topics: WISDOMS invite paper contributions related (but not restricted to) the following areas: • Ethical dilemmas in value knowledge representation • Development of value-centric vocabularies and ontologies • Moral reasoning in AI • Societal impact of (non-)ethical AI • Value-driven system design and explainability • Value-sensitive autonomous agents • Neuro-symbolic and hybrid semantic web tools for moral reasoning Type of Contributions: We welcome diverse contributions including research papers, case studies, and theoretical explorations that align with the workshop's themes. We accept four types of contributes: • Full Papers (10-12 pages excluding references) • Short Papers (5-8 pages excluding references) • Position Papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) • Extended Abstract of recently published papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) Submissions must be sent via Easychair and should be formatted in CEUR 1-column format (template available on workshop website). For inclusion in the workshop, at least one of the authors of accepted papers needs to register at ESWC 2024 and participate on-site at WISDOMS. Location: WISDOMS is co-located with ESWC 2024 held on the beautiful island city Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. This year, ESWC has the timely theme on Fabrics of Knowledge: Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI. Join us at WISDOMS to add a flair of ethics to the main conference! We look forward to your valuable contributions to a fruitful and thought-provoking discussion on these critical issues. Best regards, Stefano De Giorgis Luana Bulla Maria Hedblom Luc Steels

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Extended Deadline [March 04, 2024]: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI)
by Silvie Cinkova 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

From: "Silvie Cinkova" <cinkova(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz> To: "ufal-l" <ufal-l(a)mff.cuni.cz> Sent: Friday, 23 February, 2024 11:05:47 Subject: Extended Deadline [March 04, 2024]: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) Apologies for cross-posting *2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024* Date: 20-25 May, 2024 Paper submissions due March 04th, 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia) Main website: [ https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ | https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ ] LREC-COLING 2024 website: [ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ | https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ ] Submission website: [ https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ | https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ ] —————————————————————————————————— *Workshop overview and objectives* This workshop will focus on the development of language technology resources and tools for indigenous, endangered and lesser-resourced languages on the Eurasian continent. In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use this technology to continue to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the hope of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and under-represented languages in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for the benefit of endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists (e.g. automating analysis and validation processes), field linguists (facilitating data collection and analysis processes), and computational linguists (developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages). The main objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics: - identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions - creation of language resources and applications, e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing - standardization for endangered languages - automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties - adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers - reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g. machine translation, and POS tagging - machine translation between closely related languages - evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families - corpora, resources, and tools for closely related languages - linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia - digitalization of endangered languages - challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistic perspectives (which includes any perspective formal theory) *Submissions* We are seeking submissions in the following categories: - Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited references - Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited references - Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students): 4 pages+unlimited references - Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet ( [ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ | https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ ] ), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website ( [ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ | https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ ] ). Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account ( [ https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ | https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ ] ). For further information on this initiative, please refer to [ https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ | https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ ] . *Important Dates* March 04, 2024: Paper submissions due [extended deadline] March 22, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance May 25, 2024: Workshop *Workshop Chairs* Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, Fairfax VA (USA) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Silvie Cinková, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) *Programme Committee (to be updated)* Abigail Walsh, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland) Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República - Uruguay, Montevideo (Uruguay) Aryaman Arora, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) Alina Karakanta, University of Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands) Alina Wróblewska, Institute of Computer Science, Jana Kazimierza, Warszawa (Poland) Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua, Delhi (India) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) & Panlingua, (India) Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany) Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) Chihiro Taguchi, the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (USA) Daan van Esch, Google, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Deepak Alok, IIT-Delhi, Delhi (India) Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trøndelag (Norway) Esha Banerjee, J.P. Morgan, Bengaluru (India) Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia) George Rehm, GmbH, Berlin (Germany) Hiwa Asadpour, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany) Jamal Abdul Nasir, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, (Sweden) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, (Ireland) John E. Ortega, New York University (USA) Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore (USA) Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Pairs (France) Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris (France) Luke D. Gessler, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) Maitrey Mehta, University of Utah, Utah (USA) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvainCollège Léon Durpiez, (Belgium) Mayank Jobanputra, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Olesea Caftanatov, Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chişinău (Moldova) Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia) Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland) Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, Agra (India) Rute Costa, the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Saliha Muradoglu, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, (USA) Stella Markantonatou, Athena RC, Athens (Greece) Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Valentin Malykh, MTS AI / ITMO University Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest (Romania) Victoria Bobicev, University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova) Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens (Greece)

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CFP: LCS Digital Humanities Symposium. ‘Consuming fiction in a convergence culture’, University of Leeds, 5 June 2024
by Simone Rebora 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, I forward a CfP of a conference in Leeds. They also offer small bursaries for young researchers.... Kind regards, Simone === LCS Digital Humanities Symposium. ‘Consuming fiction in a convergence culture’ School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds 5 June 2024 Call for papers This symposium is open to all scholars of languages, literature, film, media, game and narrative studies who are using digital methods in their research (or are studying digital media) and are interested in the themes of reception, reader and audience response, and cultural consumption more broadly. *Theme*: *C**onsuming fiction in a convergence culture* *When: 5 June 2024, University of Leeds* With this one-day Symposium we invite an interdisciplinary discussion on the reception and consumption of narrative fiction across different media and artforms. The event is open to all scholars of languages, literature, film, media, game and narrative studies who are using the frame of digital humanities and want to share their works and exchange ideas. At the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Leeds we have been working on a project entitled ‘Audience engagement with Elena Ferrante’s storyworld. Consuming fiction in a convergence culture’. Using digital humanities methods, we are collecting and analysing social media data and metadata in order to investigate how ordinary readers and TV audiences respond to and engage with the storyworld created by Italian writer Elena Ferrante. By hosting the Symposium at Leeds, we hope to take stock of what is happening in the field, exchange ideas and methodologies arising from our individual case studies and promote discussions, networks and even collaboration among scholars who, in different disciplines, are working on cultural consumption and digital humanities. The day will involve keynote talks, research project presentations (10-15 minutes), and a round-table discussion. Please submit your paper proposal (around 200-250 words) as one Word file, containing your name, affiliation and a short biography to Olivia Santovetti (O.Santovetti(a)leeds.ac.uk), Laura Lucia Rossi (L.L.Rossi(a)leeds.ac.uk) and Alessio Baldini ( A.Baldini(a)leeds.ac.uk) by *Wednesday 27 March 2024*. Small travel bursaries are available to assist participant with travel costs. Priority will be given to PhD student and Early Career Researchers who have no access to funds to cover their travel expenses. If you are interested in applying for a bursary, please include a statement in your proposal explaining the relevance of your proposal to the theme of the Symposium.

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