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Call for Papers
GRAPHOLINGUISTICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY—FROM GRAPHEMES TO KNOWLEDGE
Venice, Italy, October 23-25, 2024
<https://grafematik2024.sciencesconf.org>
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G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, also called /gʁafematik/)
is a biennial conference bringing together disciplines concerned with
grapholinguistics and, more generally, the study of writing systems and
their representation in written communication. The conference aims to
reflect on the current state of research in the area and on the role
that writing and writing systems play in neighboring disciplines like
computer science and information technology, communication, typography,
psychology, and pedagogy. In particular, it aims to study the effect of
the growing importance of Unicode with regard to the future of reading
and writing in human societies. Reflecting the richness of perspectives
on writing systems, G21C is actively interdisciplinary and welcomes
proposals from researchers from the fields of computer science and
information technology, linguistics, communication, pedagogy,
psychology, history, and the social sciences.
G21C aims to create a space for the discussion of the range of
approaches to writing systems, and specifically to bridge approaches in
linguistics, informatics, and other fields. It provides a forum for
explorations in terminology, methodology, and theoretical approaches
relating to the delineation of an emerging interdisciplinary area of
research that intersects with intense activity in practical
implementations of writing systems.
The Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century Conference is kindly endorsed
by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) and by ATypI
(Association Typographique Internationale).
Previous editions of G21C were held in Brest, France (June 14-15, 2018),
online (June 17-19, 2020), and in Palaiseau, France (June 8-10, 2022).
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MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We welcome proposals from all disciplines concerned with the study of
written language, writing systems, and their implementation in
information systems. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to:
* Epistemology of grapholinguistics: history, onomastics, topics, interaction with other disciplines
* Foundations of grapholinguistics, graphemics and graphetics
* History and typology of writing systems, comparative graphemics/graphetics
* Semiotics of writing and of writing systems
* Computational/formal graphemics/graphetics
* Grapholinguistic theory of Unicode encoding
* Orthographic reforms, theory, and practice
* Graphemics/graphetics and multiliteracy
* Writing and art / Writing in art
* Sinographemics, sinographetics
* Typographemics, typographetics
* Texting, latinization, new forms of written language
* ASCII art, emoticons, and other pictorial uses of graphemes
* Linguistic landscape
* Gender-neutral and non-binary writing, graphemic and graphetic methods
* The future of writing, of writing systems and styles
* Graphemics/graphetics of science-fiction and astrolinguistics
* Graphemics/graphetics and font technologies
* Graphemics/graphetics in steganography and computer security (phishing, typosquatting, etc.)
* Graphemics/graphetics in art, media and communication / Aesthetics of writing in the digital era
* Graphemics/graphetics in experimental psychology and cognitive sciences
* Teaching graphemics/graphetics, the five Ws and one H
* Grapholinguistic applications in natural language processing and text mining
* Grapholinguistic applications in optical character recognition and information technologies
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Vlad Atanasiu, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Kristian Berg, Universität Bonn, Germany
Peter Bilak, Typothèque, The Hague, The Netherlands
Florian Coulmas, Universität Duisburg, Germany
Jacques David, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
Mark Davis, Unicode Consortium & Google Inc., Switzerland
Joseph Dichy, Canadian University Dubai
Christa Dürscheid, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Martin Dürst, Aoyama Gakuin University & W3C, Sagamihara, Japan
Martin Evertz, Universität Köln, Germany
Amalia Gnanadesikan, University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA
Claude Gruaz, formerly at CNRS, Rouen, France
Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique & CNRS Lab-STICC, Brest, France
Daniel Harbour, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Keisuke Honda, Imperial College London and University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Dejan Ivković, York University, Toronto, Canada
Jean-Pierre Jaffré, formerly at Université Paris 5, France
Terry Joyce, Tama University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
George Kiraz, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Marc W. Küster, Office de traduction de l'Union européenne, Luxembourg
Frédéric Landragin, CNRS - Laboratoire Lattice, Montrouge, France
Christophe Lemey, URCI Mental Health Department, CHU, Brest, France
Gerry Leonidas, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Kamal Mansour, Monotype Imaging, Los Altos, California, USA
Klimis Mastoridis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Dimitrios Meletis, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Tomi S. Melka, formerly at Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois, USA
Ghassan Mourad, Université Libanaise, Beirut, Lebanon
James Myers, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Panchanan Mohanty, University of Hyderabad, India
Lisa Moore, Unicode Consortium, USA
Shigeki Moro, Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan
Sonali Nag, University of Oxford, UK
J.R. Osborn, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Jean-Christophe Pellat, Université de Strasbourg, France
Miquel Peyró, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Christian Puech, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, France
François Rastier, formerly at CNRS, Paris, France
Cornelia Schindelin, Universität Mainz, Germany
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, SIIT, Thammasat University, Phatum Thani, Thailand
Jürgen Spitzmüller, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Richard Sproat, Google Research, Tokyo, Japan
Susanne Wehde, MRC Managing Research GmbH, München, Germany
Kenneth Whistler, Unicode Consortium, Berkeley, California, USA
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ORGANIZERS
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Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique & CNRS Lab-STICC, Brest, France
Sveva Elti di Rodeano, Dipartimento di Studi umanistici, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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- Annick Payne (Università Ca' Foscari): Classifiers in the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Script
- Camille Circlude (École de recherche graphique, Brussels): Post-binary typography for a debinarised future
- Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University): The Grapholinguistic Model of TeX / An “All Questions Answered” Session
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LOCATION
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The conference will be held in hybrid mode: participants can present and interact in videoconference mode or assist physically. The physical location will be Aula Geymonat at Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Calle Contarini, Dorsoduro 3484/D, 30123 Venezia, Italy.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: June 15th, 2024
Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2024
Conference: October 23-25, 2024
Submission of paper for Proceedings: February 28th, 2025
For more information on the conference, please visit
https://grafematik2024.sciencesconf.org
and follow
https://twitter.com/grafematik_conf
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SUBMISSION DETAILS
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To submit a presentation proposal, please connect to <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/G21C2024> and
provide an extended ANONYMOUS abstract of at least 500 and at most 1,000
words, followed by at least 10 (ten) bibliographical references in the
form of a PDF file.
Proposals that do not respect these constraints will not be considered.
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REGISTRATION FEE
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To be established later.
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PROCEEDINGS
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The Proceedings will be published by Fluxus Editions publishing house
(Brest, France) as a volume of the Grapholinguistics and Its
Applications Series. Articles in the Proceedings can be 12-60 pages long
(LaTeX article style) and can be written in English, French or German.
Instructions can be found here. The submission deadline is February
28th, 2025.
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