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Humanist Archives: Dec. 4, 2019, 5:50 a.m. Humanist 33.451 - events: tagging text; algorithm criticism; Arabic NLP; designing & making

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    [1]    From: Patrick Michel 
           Subject: Textual tagging: challenges for classical languages (36)

    [2]    From: Chris J. Young 
           Subject: Fwd: [DHSI] CFP - Recounting Algorithms: A Workshop on Critical Algorithm Studies in the Library, 7-8 May 2020 at UTM Library (74)

    [3]    From: Wajdi Zaghouani 
           Subject: CFP: The Fifth Arabic NLP Workshop / Shared Task Collocated With COLING 2020 (93)

    [4]    From: Susan Schreibman 
           Subject: CFP: Design Thinking & Maker Culture: Sticky Learning for the 21st Century, 24-26 March 2020, Vienna (114)


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        Date: 2019-12-03 19:29:18+00:00
        From: Patrick Michel 
        Subject: Textual tagging: challenges for classical languages

Dear all,

Please note that the forthcoming event organised by #ASAnumerica will
take place at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) on the 10th December
2019 (Anthropole 1107):

Textual tagging: challenges for classical languages

The session will present several projects with a focus on the following
issues:

--Why to chose an individual way of tagging above another ? Does it
depend on previous knowledge of programming languages ? Is it relevant
to have a grammatical standard for classical languages, even though the
objectives may differ?
--How to manage the tags for a given textual corpus ? Where to preserve
them and in which form ?
--How to tag a diachronic corpus ? How to account for polysemy / textual
ambiguities?
--Is it possible to think of other forms of textual tagging ? (for
instance what is the sense of a pragmatic tagging ?)
--To which extent is it necessary to tag and what is its relevance for a
digital edition ?

For more information, please browse our website (in French):
http://wp.unil.ch/asanumerica/ and for more information, feel free to
contact us.

Best Regards,

for #ASAnumerica

Patrick M. Michel (patrick.michel@unil.ch)
Ariane Jambé (ariane.jambe@unil.ch)
Dylan Bovet (dylan.bovet@unil.ch)


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        Date: 2019-12-03 19:28:07+00:00
        From: Chris J. Young 
        Subject: Fwd: [DHSI] CFP - Recounting Algorithms: A Workshop on Critical Algorithm Studies in the Library, 7-8 May 2020 at UTM Library

Recounting Algorithms: A Workshop on Critical Algorithm Studies in the
Library
University of Toronto Mississauga Library
May 7-8, 2020
https://www.recounting.net/

Call for Proposals

How can libraries and archives best contribute to emerging critical
discourses around algorithms, machine learning, and artificial
intelligence? Recounting Algorithms is a two-day workshop, supported by
the Council on Library and Information Resources and hosted by the
University of Toronto Mississauga Library, that aims to enrich the
intersections of critical algorithm studies and academic librarianship.

Efforts to historicize, culturally situate, and foreground algorithmic
systems as manifestations of bias and power have flourished recently.
Work in this area has contributed important insights into the often
oppressive operational conditions of systems used to automate tasks such
as hiring, criminal risk assessment, supply chain management, web page
ranking, and surveillance. The robustness of this growing field of
inquiry is demonstrated in the varied institutional backgrounds of those
who have contributed to it—they include journalists, artists, advocates,
and academic researchers from across the disciplinary spectrum.

Librarians and archivists are beginning to incorporate aspects of this
critical discourse through projects that advance algorithmic literacy
and initiatives, like Information Maintainers, that emphasize the
intersection of information technology, data governance, and social
justice. Relatedly, initiatives such as Emulation as a Service and
Collections as Data suggest new services and infrastructures that might
facilitate analysis of algorithmic systems.

We invite proposals for pedagogical resources, creative projects, and
library services that explore how libraries can support and build on
investigations of algorithmic systems (including, machine learning and
AI) and their enabling social conditions. While proposals should be
oriented toward the library as a context for sustaining and supporting
instruction and critical inquiry, we encourage submissions from
non-librarians, particularly from educators, researchers, graduate
students, artists, journalists and advocates. Potential themes include
but are not limited to:

   * Projects to collect, preserve, and curate materials relevant to the
     study of algorithmic systems.
   * Resources for addressing emerging aspects of information and digital
     literacy related to machine learning and artificial intelligence.
   * Projects that reframe core values and practices (such as access and
     literacy) in light of work from critical algorithm studies.

Invited workshop participants will present their proposals (in draft or
prototype form) and engage in workshop activities to refine and develop
them using constructive input from the group. Workshopped projects will
be shared as an online resource following the workshop.

Submissions

Submissions should include a project abstract (500-word max) and bio (50
word max) for each presenter. If submitting with co-authors, please
limit the group to no more than three presenters. Please submit all
materials via email recountingalgs@gmail.com by January 17, 2020.
Successful applicants will be notified of acceptance by February 7,
2020. Email recountingalgs@gmail.com 
with additional questions.

Coordinators

Seth Erickson (Penn State University Libraries)
Chris Young (University of Toronto Mississauga Library)
Andrew Meade McGee (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)
Justin Shanks (Montana State University Library)
Wendy Hoi Yan Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong Library)



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        Date: 2019-12-02 17:44:32+00:00
        From: Wajdi Zaghouani 
        Subject: CFP: The Fifth Arabic NLP Workshop / Shared Task Collocated With COLING 2020

The 5th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop/Shared Task (WANLP-5
2020 ) will be a full day event
taking place on September 13, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop is
collocated with COLING 2020 .

Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp-2020

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the
following:

-    Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing,
semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc.

-   Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies,
social media, etc.

-    Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the
Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or mixed. Papers
on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers such as
Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script are welcome.
Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other
languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome,
but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work.

Shared Task

Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic dialect
identification (https://sites.google.com/view/nadi-shared-task). This
shared task targets province-level dialects, and as such will be the first
to focus on naturally-occurring fine-grained dialect at the sub-country
level.

Shared Task URL: https://sites.google.com/view/nadi-shared-task

Important Dates

   - May 20, 2020: Workshop Paper Due Date
   - Jun 24, 2020: Notification of Acceptance
   - Jul 11, 2020: Camera-ready Papers Due
   - Sep 13: Workshop Date


Submission Details

Submissions are expected to be up to 8 pages long plus any number of pages
for references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional
page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken
into account. Submissions will be done via softconf.

Submission Link: https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/WANLP2020/



*Advisory Committee:* Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Ahmed Ali, Hend Alkhalifa,
Houda Bouamor, Fethi Bougares, Khalid Choukri, Kareem Darwish, Mona Diab,
Mahmoud El-Haj, Samhaa El-Beltagy, Wassim El Hajj, Nizar Habash, Lamia
Hadrich Belguith, Hazem Hajj, Walid Magdy, Khaled Shaalan, Kamel Smaili,
Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi Zaghouani, Imed Zitouni



For questions or comments regarding  WANLP-5 you may contact Wajdi
Zaghouani: wzaghouani@hbku.edu.qa

----

Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.

PhD Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar
tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992

wzaghouani@hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

WANLP 2019 Organizing Committee

General Chair: Imed Zitouni
Ex-General Chair Advisor: Wassim El Hajj
Program Chairs: Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Houda Bouamor, Fethi Bougares,
Mahmoud El-Haj
Publication Chair:  Nadi Tomeh
Publicity Chair: Wajdi Zaghouani
Shared Tasks: Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, Nizar Habash and Houda
Bouamor


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        Date: 2019-12-02 07:18:32+00:00
        From: Susan Schreibman 
        Subject: CFP: Design Thinking & Maker Culture: Sticky Learning for the 21st Century, 24-26 March 2020, Vienna

The IGNITE project is delighted to announce a conference (25-26 March
2020) and workshop (24 March 2020) in Vienna, Austria around the twin
concepts of design thinking and maker culture in teaching and learning.

Conference

What: Design Thinking & Maker Culture: Sticky Learning for the 21st
Century. Where: University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AustriaHow:To apply,
please register your interest via the Google Form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BLIV6c7_DR8Atqhcrh1TFdTIvQhPeWA2xTyxl5iOgFQ/ed
it)When:
Applications will be accepted to 18 December 2019

Sticky learning is a fairly new concept that promotes methods for
teaching/training so that it is retained more effectively afterwards  --
hence the stickiness. This is clearly the goal of all learning
activities, but with recent technology development and with the concept
of Industry 4.0, stickiness has also become a concept for learning
outcomes with user-oriented design. User-centred design is key to not
only improving efficiency, but also citizen engagement. It also provides
new ways to co-create across sectors and on a larger scale, and ways for
those in the humanities and heritage to take on and create solutions for
global challenges. We know that such solutions will include new
technologies, but also that they will rest on human and humanities
knowledge for a sustainable (digital) transition of society.

This conference seeks to explore these themes within the wider areas of
education within the digital humanities, cultural studies, and the
creative and cultural industries, both as part traditional educational
curricula as well as lifelong learning. We welcome abstracts for long
papers (20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions); short papers (10 minutes)
and posters which address themes related to the conference more
generally, but which especially address:

  * Sticky learning in teaching technology within a humanities setting

  * Digital innovation in teaching and learning in the humanities

  * Flipped classroom teaching

  * Lifelong learning in the digital transformation for the heritage sector

  * Design thinking for the humanities and heritage

  * Maker Culture as new forms of meaning-making and knowledge creation

  * Novel ways to teach technology at Masters level, including 3D
    modelling, augmented and virtual reality, digital storytelling, game
    jamming

  * How do we prepare humanities students for a new labour market in the
    creative and cultural industries


There is no fee for the conference or workshop. They are underwritten by
the Creative Media Europe Directorate of the European Union and the
IGNITE project. There are a limited number of bursaries for presenters
from EU Member States who plan on attending both events.



Workshop


What: Online, blended, & flipped classrooms for teaching new
technologies to humanities studies and heritage professionalsWhere:
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AustriaHow:To apply, please register
your interest via the Google Form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BLIV6c7_DR8Atqhcrh1TFdTIvQhPeWA2xTyxl5iOgFQ/ed
it)When:
Applications will be accepted to 18 December 2020

This workshop will explore how we can integrate new modalities of
teaching (online, blended and flipped classrooms) and enhance and
empower students to apply critical thinking through design and making.
There are a myriad of new forms of knowledge creation engendered by the
digital transition.  It is crucial that students are able to participate
in the knowledge economy, not just by learning today’s technologies, but
by being prepared to create new knowledge, processes, services, and
products in formats and media that have yet to be invented.


This workshop will focus on ways to integrate alternative modalities ofÂ
knowledge creation (team, project-and problem-based learning) to better
prepare graduates for a wide variety of roles both in and supporting the
creative and cultural sector, from publishing, to GLAM institutions, to
grant management.


The workshop will be co-designed by participants and will centre around
the challenges that participants bring, including:


  * Integrating design thinking and making into the curriculum

  * The challenges of teaching with online, blended, and flipped classrooms

  * The institutional challenges of embedding alternative forms of
    knowledge creation into the curriculum

  * Preparing humanities students for a new labour market in the
    creative and cultural industries

  * Further directions for the IGNITE curriculum in meeting these challenges

--
Prof. dr. Susan Schreibman
Professor of Digital Art and Culture
Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands

Email: s.schreibman@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Phone: +31 (0)43 388 32 82


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