https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2013Q3_Reports:_SIGHUM&feed=atom&action=history2013Q3 Reports: SIGHUM - Revision history2024-03-29T08:51:47ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2013Q3_Reports:_SIGHUM&diff=1914&oldid=prevKalliopizervanou: New page: <p>The SIG currently has 85 members and is still managed by the founding officers:<br/> Kalliopi Zervanou (acting contact person), Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Piroska Lendv...2013-07-09T12:43:41Z<p>New page: <p>The SIG currently has 85 members and is still managed by the founding officers:<br/> Kalliopi Zervanou (acting contact person), Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Piroska Lendv...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><p>The SIG currently has 85 members and is still managed by the founding officers:<br/><br />
Kalliopi Zervanou (acting contact person),<br />
Caroline Sporleder, Antal van den Bosch and Piroska Lendvai.</p><br />
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== Events: ==<br />
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<p>The main event for the SIGHUM community has been the organisation<br />
of the upcoming [http://sighum.science.ru.nl/latech2013/index.html LaTeCH workshop] (Language Technology for Cultural Heritage,<br />
Social Sciences, and Humanities).</p><br />
<p>This 7th edition of LaTeCH, now associated with SIGHUM,<br />
received a record number of submissions (27) on topics covering diverse aspects of<br />
humanities, cultural heritage and social sciences research in NLP, such as<br />
creation of historical corpora and lexical resources, spelling normalisation and correction,<br />
cultural heritage access and retrieval applications, information extraction and text mining applications<br />
in folktales, social media, public policy and social sciences.</p><br />
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<p><b>Other events organised include:</b></p><br />
<ul><br />
<li> The [http://www.ru.nl/ehumanities/workshop-2013/home/ Soeterbeeck eHumanities Workshop]<br />
(June 13-14, 2013 Soeterbeeck Study Centre, the Netherlands) which aimed<br />
at bringing together traditional humanties researchers with e-humanities researchers<br />
and language technologists and combined research presentations with hands-on tutorials<br />
on practical e-humanties applications.</li><br />
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<li> The [http://www.ru.nl/ehumanities/spring-school-2013/home/ Nijmegen Spring School in eHumanities]<br />
(April 3–5, 2013, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands) which was an intensive three-day<br />
spring school aiming at equipping junior and senior humanities and social sciences scholars with basic<br />
IT skills for digital humanities research purposes. Training sessions focused in programming in Python,<br />
statistics in R and network analysis with Gephi.</li><br />
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<li> The [http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/crpc/acrh2/ Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities] (ACRH-2) <br />
(November 29th, 2013, University of Lisbon, Portugal, held in conjunction with TLT 11).<br />
The ARCH workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making annotated corpora accessible.</li><br />
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==Plans:==<br />
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<ul><br />
<li> SIGHUM Nominations and Elections</li><br />
<li> Organisation of LaTeCH 2014 </li><br />
<li> Setting up a repository of resources (or links to resources) on [http://sighum.science.ru.nl/ SIGHUM website]</li><br />
<li> Encouraging information exchange among SIGHUM members using the [https://lists.uvt.nl/mailman/listinfo/sighum SIGHUM mailing list]</li><br />
</ul></div>Kalliopizervanou