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***4th Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics2017) -
November 6, 2017, Singapore***
Held in conjunction with the 26th ACM International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), 6-10 November,
Singapore.
http://histoinformatics2017.adaptcentre.ie/
The HistoInformatics workshop series brings together researchers in the
historical disciplines, computer science and associated disciplines as
well as the cultural heritage sector. Historians, like other humanists
show keen interests in computational approaches to the study and
processing of digitized sources (usually text, images, audio). In
computer science, experimental tools and methods stand the challenge to
be validated regarding their relevance for real-world questions and
applications. The HistoInformatics workshop series is designed to bring
researchers in both fields together, to discuss best practices as well
as possible future collaborations.
Traditionally, historical research is based on the hermeneutic
investigation of preserved records and artefacts to provide a reliable
account of the past and to discuss different hypotheses. Alongside this
hermeneutic approach historians have always been interested to translate
primary sources into data and used methods, often borrowed from the
social sciences, to analyze them. A new wealth of digitized historical
documents have however opened up completely new challenges for the
computer-assisted analysis of e.g. large text or image
corpora. Historians can greatly benefit from the advances of computer
and information sciences which are dedicated to the processing,
organization and analysis of such data. New computational techniques can
be applied to help verify and validate historical assumptions. We call
this approach HistoInformatics, analogous to Bioinformatics and
ChemoInformatics which have respectively proposed new research trends in
biology and chemistry. The main topics of the workshop are :(1) support
for historical research and analysis in general through the application
of Computer Science theories or technologies, (2) analysis and re-use of
historical texts, (3) analysis of collective memories, (4)
visualizations of historical data, (4) access to large wealth of
accumulated historical knowledge.
HistoInformatics workshops took place thrice in the past. The first one
( http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/histoinformatics2013/) was held in
conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics
in Kyoto, Japan in 2013. The second workshop
(http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u. ac.jp/histoinformatics2014/) took place at
the same conference in the following year in Barcelona. The third
workshop (http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u. ac.jp/histoinformatics2016/) was
held on July 2016 in Krakow, Poland in conjunction with ADHO’s 2016
Digital Humanities conference.
For Histoinformatics2017, we are interested in a wide range of topics
which are of relevance for history, the cultural heritage sector and the
humanities in general. Topics of interest include (but are not limited
to) :
- Natural language processing and text analytics applied to historical
documents
- Analysis of longitudinal document collections
- Search and retrieval in document archives and historical collections,
associative search
- Causal relationship discovery based on historical resources
- Named entity recognition and disambiguation
- Entity relationship extraction, detecting and resolving historical
references in text
- Finding analogical entities over time
- Computational linguistics for old texts
- Analysis of language change over time
- Digitizing and archiving
- Modeling evolution of entities and relationships over time
- Automatic multimedia document dating
- Applications of Artificial Intelligence techniques to History
- Simulating and recreating the past course of actions, social
relations, motivations, figurations
- Handling uncertain and fragmentary text and image data
- Automatic biography generation
- Mining Wikipedia for historical data
- OCR and transcription of old texts
- Effective interfaces for searching, browsing or visualizing historical
data collections
- Studies on collective memory
- Studying and modeling forgetting and remembering processes
- Estimating credibility of historical findings
- Probing the limits of Histoinformatics
- Epistemologies in the Humanities and Computer Science
**Practical matters**
Paper submission deadline : July 15, 2017 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance : August 12, 2017
Camera ready copy deadline : August 19, 2017
Workshop date : November 6, 2017
Submissions need to be :
- formatted according to ACM camera-ready template (http://www.acm.org/
publications/proceedings-template).
- submitted in English in PDF format at the workshops Easychair page (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=histoinformatics2017)
Full paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed
and unpublished work, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not
currently under review elsewhere. Long papers may consist of up to eight
(8) pages of content including references and figures. Short paper
submissions must describe small and focused contribution. Short papers
may consist of up to four (4) pages (including references and
figures). Accepted papers will be published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(http://ceur-ws.org/).
**Organizing committee**
- Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, ADAPT Centre : The Global Centre of Excellence
for Digital Content and Media Innovation, Ireland
- Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan
- Gäel Dias, University of Caen Normandie, France
- Marten Düring, Luxembourg Centre for Digital and Contemporary History
(C2DH), Luxemburg
- Antal van Den Bosch, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
**Program committee (to be added)**
- Sharon Webb, University of Sussex, UK
- Robert Allen, Yonsei University, South Korea
- Frederick Clavert, Paris Sorbonne University, France
- Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle, France
- Adam Kosto, Columbia University, USA
- Serge Ter Braake, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
- James Baker, University of Sussex, UK
- Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK
- Pim Huijnen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Marc iol, University of Caen Normandie, France
- Andrea Nanetti, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Ching-man Au Yeung, Zwoop, Hong Kong
- Christian Gudehus, University of Bochum, Germany
- Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, LIAAD / INESC TEC, Portugal
- Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Patrice Bellot, Polytech Marseille - Aix-Marseille Université, France
- Max Kemman, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Nattiya Kanhabua, NTENT, Spain
For any inquiries, please contact the organizing committee at
mohammed.hasanuzzaman@adaptcentre.ie/histoinformatics2017@easychair.org