ACL 2011 workshop on:
Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
June 24, 2011 - Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, Oregon, USA
The 5th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities was held in conjunction with the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL/HLT 2011) which took place in June 19-24, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA.
News
- 2 Jul 2011: Presentation slides available for download at the programme page
26 May 2011: Programme change in the first afternoon session22 May 2011: Instructions for presentations22 May 2011: Call for Participation20 May 2011: Workshop programme and registration information30 Mar 2011: Final Call for Papers & submission deadline extension to April 15th, 201126 Feb 2011: Second Call for Papers20 Dec 2010: First Call for Papers
About the Workshop
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.
The workshop is a continuation of 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.