ACL 2011 workshop on:
Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
June 24, 2011 - Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, Oregon, USA
Call for Papers
** Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2011 **
The 5th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL/HLT 2011) which will take place in June 19-24, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA. The workshop is a follow-up to LaTeCH 2007 held at ACL, in Prague, Czech Republic, LaTeCH 2008, at LREC, in Marrakech, Morocco, LaTeCH 2009 at EACL, in Athens, Greece, and LaTeCH 2010 at ECAI, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Scope and Topics
The LaTeCH workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on developing novel information technology for improved information access to data from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage.
Recent developments in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage draw an increasing interest from researchers in NLP in developing methods for data cleaning, semantic annotation, intelligent querying, linking, discovery and visualisation of interesting trends. Language technology has an important role to play in these processes, even for collections which are primarily non-textual, since text is the pervasive medium used for metadata. These fairly novel domains of application entail new challenges to NLP research, such as noisy text (e.g., due to OCR problems), non-standard, or archaic language varieties (e.g., historic language, dialects, mixed use of languages, ellipsis, transcription errors), the necessity to link data of diverse formats (e.g., text, database, video, speech) and languages, and the lack of available resources, such as dictionaries. Furthermore, often neither annotated domain data is available, nor the required funds to manually create it, thus forcing researchers to investigate (semi-) automatic resource development and domain adaptation approaches involving the least possible manual effort.
Authors are invited to submit long or short papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop, including (but not limited to) the following:
- Adapting existing NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities domains
- Automatic error detection and cleaning
- Complex annotation tools and interfaces
- Dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or non-contemporary use of language
- Knowledge discovery and text mining from Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities data
- Knowledge representation in Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains
- Ontologies, data models, taxonomies: automatic induction and standardisation
- Natural language generation for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities data
- User and audience modeling, recommendation, personalisation
- Transdisciplinary research on Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities data
- User scenarios and use cases
Information for authors
Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers presenting completed work, we also invite short papers and system descriptions (demos):
- Long papers should present completed work and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references.
- Short papers/demos can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) additional pages of references.
All submissions should be formatted using the ACL formatting style.
The reviewing process will be blind; the papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations, or any references to web sites, project names, etc., revealing the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, via the ACL/LaTeCH 2011 submission website.
Important Dates
Short & long paper submission deadline: April 15, 2011 (extended)
Notification of acceptance:
April 25, 2011
Camera-ready papers due:
May 06, 2011
LaTeCH full-day workshop:
June 24, 2011