Fwd: Second CfP: Second AMICUS Workshop on Motifs in Cultural and Scientific Narratives @ IC-ININFO, Greece - deadline extended to June 30, 2011

A really interesting topic! -Jodi

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From: A.P.J. van den Bosch <Antal.vdnBosch@uvt.nl>
Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Subject: Second CfP: Second AMICUS Workshop on Motifs in Cultural and
Scientific Narratives @ IC-ININFO, Greece - deadline extended to June
30, 2011
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Second AMICUS Workshop: "Motifs in Cultural and Scientific Narratives"
http://amicus.uvt.nl/amicus_ws2011.htm

http://amicus.uvt.nl/amicus_ws2011.htm

Paper submission deadline:  June 30, 2011 (NEW!!!)

Keynote speaker: Thierry Declerck (ICLTT, Austria / DFKI, Germany)

The 2nd AMICUS Workshop investigates the potential of a motif - as a
metaphor for formulaic knowledge structures, and a complex expression
of semantic content - applied to narrative discourse in literature,
fairy tales, and scientific text. There is a wealth of on-going
research aimed at creating knowledge schemes to encode higher-order
content agglomerates which are semantically interpretable both by
humans and machines. Without a doubt, advanced subject access in
digital repositories would greatly benefit from the isolation and
application of indexing expressions above the term level.

Reaching advanced semantic indexing and content representation
requires methodological, structural, and conceptual
cross-fertilization from several disciplines. In particular,
cross-domain fertilization between narrative study applied in the
humanities and in scientific discourse analysis might lead to
significant advances in both application areas. To this end, a broad
community of scholars including curators, developers, and users of
digital repositories working at the intersection of the Digital
Libraries, Digital Humanities, and Human Language Technology fields
are invited to investigate motifs in cultural and scientific
narratives, including, but not limited to, rhetorical and
discipline-based perspectives on discourse analysis and narrative and
rhetorical structures.

Venue and date

The 2nd AMICUS Workshop will be held on September 30 (Friday), 2011 as
a one-day event at the International Conference on Integrated
Information, IC-ININFO 2011 (September 29 - October 3, 2011), on the
island of Kos, Greece. IC-ININFO 2011 will bring together leading
academics and practitioners in the emergent field of Integrated
Information.

Please check the conference website http://www.icininfo.net

Background

The AMICUS ("Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage and
Scientific Communication Texts") network, which runs from 2009 to
2012, aims to gather a research community to test computational
approaches that connect, cross-fertilize, and resolve these issues,
starting with the identification of Proppian functions in folk tale
corpora and adapting methodological means and solutions to functional
counterparts of these in other genres. The project links the domains
of cultural heritage (CH) and scientific communication (SC, i.e.
scholarly publishing) by focusing on their common need of processing
texts for automated, large-scale higher-order text analytics, rising
to an advanced level of text understanding, and enabling the
extraction of structured knowledge from weakly structured text.

Objectives, audience and outcomes

This year's AMICUS workshop aims to reach a broader community of
scholars working at the intersection of fields of Digital Libraries,
Digital Humanities, and Human Language Technology, including curators,
developers and users of digital repositories. By investigating how the
combination of morpho-syntactic and semantic elements convey motifs in
texts from the CH and SC domains, several important technological
aspects of this complex issue will be exposed with the aim to be
worked out.

Topics of interest include:

• Sublanguages expressing narrative knowledge structures/motifs,
• Detection and representation of narrative components and networks,
• Knowledge structures/motifs in cultural and scientific texts,
• Development of narrative ontologies and schemes,
• Narrative metadata as sublanguage components,
• Computational models and sublanguages for cultural and scientific texts,
• User studies, technical development, and curation issues pertaining
to all of the above.

Program committee

• Sophia Ananiadou, NaCTeM, UK
• Gully Burns, ISI/USC, USA
• Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado, USA
• Tim Clark, Harvard/MGH, USA
• June Lee, TSPS, Taiwan
• Elena Maceviciute, SSLIS, University of Borĺs, Sweden
• Pierre Maranda, Department of Anthropology, Université Laval, Canada
• Vivien Petras, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Germany
• Ágnes Sándor, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble
• Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, USA
• Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University, Germany
• Mariët Theune, University of Twente, the Netherlands
• Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary
• Tom Wilson, SSLIS, University of Borĺs, Sweden

Organizing committee

• Sándor Darányi, University of Borĺs and Göteborg University, Sweden
• Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs, USA
• Piroska Lendvai, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary
• Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

We are inviting two types of submissions:

• Research papers by participants who are currently conducting text
analysis and/or resource development pertaining to motifs,
sublanguages, or similar knowledge structures will be invited to
present their work, augmented by a clear motivation for enhanced
indexing and modelling of, or access to, cultural heritage or
scientific texts.
• Vision papers, by participants who wish to either compare, contrast,
or port existing efforts to specific user goals or domains.

Submissions will be evaluated by the Program Committee in a
double-blind reviewing process. Paper templates and online submission
details are available from the IC-ININFO website
http://www.icininfo.net ;
Select the AMICUS session and upload your paper.

Important Dates

June 30, 2011:  Paper submission deadline (NEW!!!)
July 21, 2011:  Acceptance notification (NEW!!!)
July 31, 2011:  Early registration deadline, special accommodation
prices can be obtained until this date (NEW!!!)

For further details please check
http://amicus.uvt.nl/amicus_ws2011.htm or contact the organizers

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