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The 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2014)

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26 April 2014 - Events

The 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2014)

Special Theme: "Linked data in the Humanities"

The workshop will be held in conjunction with EACL 2014 on April 26 2014 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Organized by SIGHUM: http://sighum.science.ru.nl/latech2014/

The 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014) which will take place in April 26-30, 2014, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

This edition of the LaTeCH workshop will have as special topic the theme of "Linked data in the Humanities" and in particular:

• Semantic linking of objects in digital libraries and

• Deep annotation of documents in the humanties

We are also looking for contributions on other topics related to language technology research for the domains of cultural heritage, social sciences, and the humanities, such as:

• Adapting NLP tools to cultural heritage, social sciences, and the humanities domains

• Modelling of information and knowledge

• Automatic creation of semantic resources

• Automatic error detection and cleaning

• Complex annotation tools and interfaces

• Dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language

• Discourse and narrative analysis

• Linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains

• Research infrastructure and standardization efforts

• Sentiment analysis

• Text mining and text analytics

• User modelling, recommendation, personalisation