Exploring Historical Sources with Language Technology: Results and Perspectives

This international workshop is the joint effort of two major Europe-wide initiatives:  CLARIN (Common Language Resource and Tools Infrastructure) and NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities). The proliferation of digital resources in the Humanities urges both the development of new technologies and the elaboration of new methods, concepts, and theories by means of which researchers can query and interpret large-scale textual collections. In the discovery of digital resources language technology are certainly playing a pivotal role. The goal of the workshop is to demonstrate how the application of language technology has produced a new understanding of texts in different fields of Humanities.

The workshop will bring together researchers who already apply language technology, and those who would like to learn about the current state of art in this new and evolving area. The organizers invite researchers (especially early career scholars) who plan to apply language technology but do not already have the necessary skills and technical background. The second main goal of the workshop is to enhance exchange of experiences, disseminate know-how, and to explore potential future collaborations.

Thanks to generous funding from NeDiMAH and Clarin, participation will be free of charge, and funds will be available to reimburse travel and accommodation expenses for a number of participants. NeDiMAH is funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

To apply for a place, please complete this simple online form (http://bit.ly/explorehistory), where you are asked for some details and a short statement of the reasons for your interest in participating. 

Important dates

Organizing Committee

Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Huygens ING (home page)

Gabor Mihaly Toth, University of Passau (home page)

Martin Wynne, CLARIN ERIC (home page)

If you have any questions, please contact one of the organizers or martin@clarin.eu.