The Workshop on "Corpus-based Research in the Humanities" (CRH) brings together those areas of Computational Linguistics and the Humanities that share an interest in the building, managing and analysis of text corpora. The edition of this year has a specific focus on time and space annotation in textual data, backed by a keynote speaker with special interest in this aspect of corpus management.
 
The second edition of CRH will be held in Vienna (Austria) on January 25th-26th 2018 and will be hosted Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna and Technische Universitaet Wien.
 
The series of the CRH workshops continues that of the workshop on "Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities" (ACRH), the three editions of which were held respectively in 2011 (Heidelberg, Germany), 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal) and 2013 (Sofia, Bulgaria). The first CRH was held in Warsaw (Poland) in 2015. 

The CRH workshop aims at building a tighter collaboration between people working in various areas of the Humanities (such as literature, philology, history, translational studies etc.) and the research community involved in developing, using and making accessible different kinds of corpora. A gap exists between computational linguists (who sometimes do not involve humanists in developing and exploiting corpora for the Humanities) and humanists (who sometimes just aren't aware that such corpora do exist and that automatic methods and standards to build and use them are today available).
Over the past few years a number of historical annotated corpora have been started, among which are treebanks for Middle, Early Modern and Old English, Early New High German, Medieval Portuguese, Ugaritic, Latin, Ancient Greek and several translations of the New Testament into Indo-European languages. The experience of these ever-growing set of projects can provide many suggestions on the methodology as well as on the practice of interaction between literary studies, philology and corpus linguistics.

Topics    

• Specific issues related to the annotation of corpora for research in the Humanities (annotation schemes and principles), with special interest in space and time annotations
  
• Corpora as a basis for research in the Humanities
  
• Diachronic, historical and literary corpora
  
• Use of corpora for stylometrics and authorship attribution
  
• Philological issues, like different readings, textual variants, apparatus, non-standard orthography and spelling variation
  
• Adaptation of NLP tools for older language varieties
  
• Integration of corpora for the Humanities into language resources infrastructures
  
• Tools for building and accessing corpora for the Humanities
  
• Examples of fruitful collaboration between Computational Linguistics and Humanities in building and exploiting corpora
  
• Theoretical aspects of the use of empirical evidence provided by corpora in the Humanities
  
  

Submission Deadline    : October 08, 2017 Authors Notification      : November 05, 2017 Final Manuscript Due     : December 03, 2017

 

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