3rd DHandNLP

Short papers consisting of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references (in English)
Full papers consisting of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references (in English)

All papers must be anonymous, original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. They must strictly adhere to the submission templates of the main conference (below).

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Workshop description

Digital humanities (DH) stand at the intersection of computing and the humanities, involving collaborative transdisciplinary research. While current DH practice already shows an impressive array of new digital tools and methods for the study of the humanities, we believe that natural language processing techniques and experience can significantly enhance the field, while DH can also bring new testbeds and problems for the NLP community.

The 3rd DHanNLP workshop, co-located with PROPOR, brings together researchers of both research traditions (humanities and computational linguists), with interests in multi- and cross-lingual approaches, and also those with interests in Portuguese language variants and dialects (including the language varieties of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé, Macau or Galiza). We expect papers stemming from humanities that deal with language, such as philosophy, history, geography, law, philology, linguistics, or literature, and that can benefit from a digital approach or enhanced with computational linguistics methods or techniques, be it by using large sets of (written or spoken) textual data or by developing applications for an increasingly digital world. Also expected are papers that describe and evaluate the use of well-known techniques in new DH applications.

The workshop accepts contributions on methods useful for DH research, or applications using them, including but not limited to:

Digital philology, critical editions production and textual criticism
Lexicometrics, lexicology and lexicography
Visualization or sonification of large textual bodies in specific domains
Computational stylometry, authorship attribution and profiling
Distant reading of literature
Construction of historical thesauri

We also welcome papers that use “traditional” DH tools or techniques, such as topic modelling, and papers that use standard NLP tools that were already applied in different DH contexts, such as named entity recognition, document clustering and classification, sentiment analysis, dialect/language identification and linked data.

Finally, we are especially interested in approaches that deal with historical material, involving not only historical linguistics but historical lexicology, corpus processing and their multilingual analysis.

Organising committee

Maria José Bocorny Finatto Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PPG-LETRAS, Brazil

Leonardo Zilio Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, CCL, Germany

Diana Santos Faculty of Humanities, Linguateca/University of Oslo, Norway

Renata Vieira CIDEHUS, Évora University, Portugal

Valeria de Paiva Topos Institute, USA

Contact person:

Leonardo Zilio (DHandNLP@gmail.com)

Programme Committee

Álvaro Iriarte Sanromán (Minho University, Portugal)

Cassia Trojahn (Toulouse University, France)

Daniel Alves (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)

David Semedo (Nova School of Science and Technology, Portugal)

Denise Nauderer Hogetop (Arquivo Público do RS, Brazil)

Emanoel Pires (State University of Maranhão, Brazil)

Fátima Farrica (Évora University, Portugal)

Fernanda Olival (Évora University, Portugal)

Helena Freire Cameron (Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal)

Idalete da Silva Dias (Minho University, Portugal)

Leandro Krug Wives (UFRGS, Brazil)

Paulo Quaresma (Évora University, Portugal)

Raquel Amaro (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Rebeca Schumacher (Linguateca, Portugal)

Sandro Marengo Drumond (UFS, Brazil)

Suemi Higuchi (Getúlio Vargas Foundation / PUC-Rio, Brazil)