ACL 2007 Workshop on
Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007)
June 28, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
Submission deadline: 26 March 2007
The Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage
Data will be held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, which will take place June 23-30, 2007, in Prague, Czech Republic.
Scope and Topics
Museums, archives, and libraries around the world maintain large
collections of cultural heritage objects, such as archaeological
artefacts, sound recordings, historic manuscripts, or preserved animal
specimens. Large scale digitisation projects are currently underway to
make these collections more accessible. Of equal importance, however,
is the development of powerful tools to search, link, enrich, and mine
the digitised data. Language technology has an important role to play
in this, even for collections which are primarily non-textual, since
text is the pervasive medium used for metadata. At the same time, the
cultural heritage domain poses special challenges for the NLP
community, including the use of historic or non-standard language, the
presence of OCR or transcription errors in the data, and the necessity to deal
with data from various media.
Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- enriching cultural heritage data by inducing metadata
- dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or
non-contemporary use of language
- automatic error detection and cleaning
- adapting existing NLP tools for the cultural heritage domain
- linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and
languages
- representing cultural heritage data to different audiences (personalisation,
text simplification, text summarisation, text generation from
databases, hypertext generation)
- knowledge discovery in cultural heritage data
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished
work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should be
formatted using the ACL 2007 stylefiles, which are available at available at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/, and should not exceed 8 pages.
The reviewing of the papers will be blind and the papers should not
include the authors' names and affiliations. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Papers should be submitted as PDF no later than March 26, 2007, via the
following website: http://www.softconf.com/acl07/ACL07-WS4/submit.html
Important Dates
- March 26 - Deadline for workshop papers
- April 23 - Notification of acceptance
- May 6 - Camera-ready papers due
- June 28 - Workshop held at ACL 2007
Registration
Information on registration and registration fees will be provided at
the ACL conference web page: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/.
Organising Committee
Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Caroline Sporleder (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Programme Committee
Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), co-chair
Kate Byrne (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia)
Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)
Mick O'Donnell (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Bassilis Gatos (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
Julio Gonzalo (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain)
Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh, UK), co-chair
Jiyin He (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Marti Hearst (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
Neil Ireson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Christer Johansson (University of Bergen, Norway)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
Piroska Lendvai (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Ruli Manurung (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)
Maria Milosavljevic (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Marie-Francine Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
John Nerbonne (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Hans Paijmans (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Martin Reynaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Caroline Sporleder (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), co-chair
Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Arjen de Vries (CWI, The Netherlands)
Frans Wiering (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Contact
Caroline Sporleder
Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
Germany
csporled (at) coli.uni-sb.de
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