Semantic technologies for research in the humanities and social sciences (STRiX)

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The workshop on semantic technologies for research in the humanities and social sciences (STRiX) will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, on November 24-25, 2014.

Venue

The workshop will take place at the main humanities building (Renströmsgatan 6) of the University of Gothenburg, in the room Lilla hörsalen.

Program

Monday, Nov. 24Tuesday, Nov. 25
08:50-09:00Workshop opens 
09:00-10:00Invited talk by Graeme Hirst:
Automatically Identifying
Ideology, Argumentation Schemes,
and Discourse Structure in
Parliamentary Text		Invited talk by Gregory Crane:
Defining our research agenda
and our research culture
in a digital age
10:00-10:30Coffee breakCoffee break
10:30-11:00Dill, Hennicke, Tschumpel,
Morbidoni, Pichler, Thoden:
Reasoning with Reasoning:
Practices of Digital Humanists 		Dickinson and Razo:
Corpus Development and Network
Extraction for Comparative
Analysis of Networks
11:00-11:30Dellert:
Evaluating Cross-Linguistic
Polysemies as a Model of Semantic
Change for Cognate Finding		van Bree and Kessels:
Building Temporally Aware
Knowledge Bases in nodegoat
11:30-12:00Mora-McGinity, Ogilvie, Fazekas:
Semantically Linking Humanities
Research Articles and Music Artists		  
12:00-13:00LunchWorkshop ends
13:00-14:00Invited talk by Caroline Sporleder:
Beyond Word N-Grams: Two
and A Half Case Studies of
Structural Models for Text
Classification and Analysis
14:00-14:30Borin and Tahmasebi:
CLARIN, SWE-CLARIN, and
semantic technologies for
HSS research
14:30-15:00Sandberg, Bunyik, Bjereld,
Forsberg, Johansson:
The agenda setting power of
political tweets: A study of
political topics on Twitter during
party leader debates in Sweden
15:00-15:30Coffee break
15:30-16:00Müller and Reiter:
Automatic Expression Attribution
in Non-Standard Texts
16:00-16:30Klang and Nugues:
A Platform for Named Entity
Disambiguation
16:30-17:00Alghamdi, Bonin, Ekbal, Saha,
Cavulli, Tonelli, Poesio, Kruschwitz:
Active Expert Learning for the
Digital Humanities
19:00-22:00Dinner

Topics

The workshop aims to bring together researchers, developers and end users of applications where semantic technologies could make a difference in research areas in the humanities such as cultural heritage, history and literature studies, as well as in the social and political sciences.

The last few years have seen great progress in semantic technologies that make use of knowledge sources such as ontologies or of meaning representations derived by automatic means, such as topic models. There is an increasing interest in reaping the fruits of these advances by applying the technologies in research areas that use digitized material as an important primary research data source.

We are particularly interested in content extraction from material such as digitized text and audio recordings, images and video recordings, as well as multimodal approaches. Historical data are often very challenging for extraction methods such as natural language processing, because high-quality digitization is costly and because of the diversity in language varieties and the disparity between modern and historical varieties, and we welcome any proposals for dealing with these difficulties. However, we accept contributions describing not only content extraction but all sides of these applications. Examples include retrieval and search methods, generation of text, audio, or images, and visualization and presentation questions in general.

Authors are invited to submit papers in the topic areas of the workshop, including (but not limited to) examples such as:

Accepted submissions

Important dates

Invited speakers

Organizing committee

Contact

strix2014 - at - svenska.gu.se