Automated Motif Discovery
in Cultural Heritage and Scientific
Communication Texts
First International AMICUS
Workshop
Satellite event of the
CLARIN/DARIAH conference
October 21, 2010
Vienna
In
cultural heritage objects, digitized or not, content indicators occurring on
higher than word level are often called motifs or their equivalent. Their
recognition for document classification and retrieval is largely unresolved.
Work on identifying rhetorical, narrative and persuasive elements in scientific
texts has been progressing, in several, but largely unconnected tracks. The AMICUS project (2009-2012) set out to
test a possible way to resolve these issues, starting with the identification of
Proppian functions in folk tale corpora and adapting
the solution to the identification of tale motifs or their functional
counterparts. AMICUS has devoted its first project year to listing the corpora,
tools, methods and contacts available to address these issues.
The 1st AMICUS
workshop is a one-day meeting that will take place on the 21 October in Vienna.
The workshop is an official satellite of the
Supporting the Digital Humanities conference (SDH-2010, on 19-20 October). The AMICUS workshop
aims to overview methods and infrastructure related to motifs, and to
facilitate community interaction and cross-fertilisation
of research.
The
workshop will include invited talks, panel sessions, and a poster session. We invite submissions for the poster session that can demonstrate
current cross-disciplinary research work, corpora, and applications applied to
humanities data and scientific text. All aspects of linguistic, discourse or
computational linguistic studies of motifs, persuasion and argumentation
pertaining to these two types of content are sollicited.
We encourage participation from representatives of academia, industry, and
researchers from the cultural heritage, language technology, scientific
discourse and computer science communities.
Deadline for the submission of
abstracts for the poster session is June 30, 2010.
All
presentations and accepted poster submissions will contribute to the workshop
proceedings. For more details, see the Call for Posters.
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Pierre Maranda
Professor
Emeritus, DŽpartment dÕAnthropologie,
UniversitŽ Laval, QuŽbec
Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada and awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in
the Social Sciences and Humanities
Pierre Maranda
Pierre Maranda is Canada's most revered structural anthropologist and has been a pioneer of computational ethnography over the past forty years. His latest prominent contributions include editing "The Double Twist: From Ethnography to Morphodynamics" (University of Toronto Press, London, 2001), a scholarly volume addressing and developing further Claude Levi-Strauss' methodology of structural analysis of cultural artifacts, as well as the Oceania Website (http://www.oceanie.org/), an online project he created through Laval University in collaboration with the Musee de la Civilisation and the Ministere de la Culture et des Communications du Quebec in 2001. The project presents elements of the histories and cultures of the people of Oceania.
DATES PROGRAM COMMITTEE
SUBMISSIONS
Position papers (limited to one page) and posters (limited to two
pages) for publication must be in the standard ACM conference
paper format. All submissions have to be in PDF.
Please
send your submission to Piroska Lendvai
E-mail: piroska (at)nytud hu
VENUE
The
workshop has the same location as the SDH conference: the Technical
University of Vienna, Auditorium "BOECKLSAAL" (1st floor).
Address:
Karlsplatz 13,
1040 Vienna
REGISTRATION &
ATTENDANCE Attendance
is free of charge, but requires registration. Please
register with Piroska Lendvai, ideally
before 30 September 2010. AMICUS workshop organisers S‡ndor Dar‡nyi,
Digital Humanities Research Group, Swedish School of Library and Information
Science, BorŒs, Sweden Sandor.Daranyi (at) hb.se Piroska Lendvai,
Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary piroska (at) nytud hu
Programme 08:30-09:00
Registration 09:00-09:15
ChairmanÕs opening address 09:15-10:00
Keynote lecture: Pierre Maranda (DŽpartment
dÕAnthropologie, UniversitŽ
Laval, QuŽbec, Canada): Morphology and Morphogenesis of Folktales and Myths 10:00-10:30 Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University,
Netherlands): Beyond Reported History: Strikes That Never Happened 10:30-11:00
Coffee break 11:00-11:25
Sandor Daranyi (Swedish
School of Library Science, Boras, Sweden
): Examples of Formulaity in Narratives and in Scientific Communication
11:25-11:50
Anita de Waard (Elsevier Labs, Burlington, USA & Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands): The Story of Science: A Syntagmatic/Paradigmatic Analysis of Scientific Text 11:50-12:15
Sophia Ananiadou, Paul Thompson, Raheel Nawaz (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK): Improving Search Through Event-based Biomedical Text Mining 12:15-13:30
Walking lunch:
Poster session Miklos Szoets et al. (Applied Logic Laboratory, Hungary): Semantic Processing of a Hungarian Ethnographic Corpus
Mark Finlayson (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, MIT, USA): Learning Narrative Morphologies from Annotated
Folktales
Raheel Nawaz, Paul Thompson, Sophia Ananiadou (School of Computer Science, University of
Manchester, UK): Event Interpretation: A Step towards Event-Centred Text
Mining
Anna Rafaeva (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia): Motives and Characters in Folklore Indices and Russian Folktales
Antonia Scheidel and Thierry Declerck (Language Technology Lab, DFKI, Germany): APftML - Augmented Proppian fairy tale Markup Language
13:30:13:50
Pablo Gerv‡s (Natural Interaction based on Language,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): Corpus Annotation for Narrative Generation Research: A Wish List 13:50-14:10
Thierry Declerck (Language Technology Lab, DFKI,
Germany): An Information Extraction Approach to the Semantic Annotation of Folktales 14:10-14:30
Scott Malec
(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA): AutoPropp: Toward the Automatic Markup, Classification, and Annotation of Russian Magic Tales 14:30-14:50
Anette Frank, Nils Reiter (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany): Harvesting Event Chains in Ritual Descriptions Using Frame Semantics 14:50-15:10 Coffee
break 15:10-15:30
Faith Lawrence (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland), Michael O. Jewell (University of London, London, UK), Paul Rissen (BBC, London, UK): OntoMedia: Telling Stories to Your Computer 15:30-15:50
Laszlo Z Karvalics (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary): Organic Kinship or Incidental Analogy? Similar Meaning Clusters in and Correspondences Between Folklore Texts and Pieces of Poetry 15:50-16:10
Piroska Lendvai (Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary): Granularity Perspectives in Modeling Humanities Concepts
16:10-16:15
5-minute break 16:15-17:15
Panel discussion: Creating an e-Propp test collection
– Showcasing cross-disciplinary utility; Motifs and scientific communication – Narrative means 17:15-17:30
Closing address All questions can be directed to piroska (at) nytud hu
E-mail: piroska (at) nytud hu