Second call for papers for the LREC-COLING2024 pre-conference workshop:
Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources
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*Date:21 May 2024 (full day)
Venue:Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin, Italy
Webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
Submission Deadline: 21 February 2024
Submission Portal:https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/htres2024/
*Workshop description*
Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s
darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of
the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that
describe the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal
narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are
captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their
personal experiences and observations from that time period.
Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital
format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the
text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated
Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our
society. These collections empower researchers and historians to
validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant
information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived
from these data. This workshop will investigate a number of ways in
which techniques and tools from natural language processing and corpus
linguistics can contribute to the exploration, analysis, dissemination
and preservation of Holocaust testimonies.
The workshop is supported by CLARIN and the European Holocaust Research
Infrastructure (EHRI).
We expect contributions related to the following topics:
Creation of datasets and development of tools for the study of Holocaust
testimonies:
* Creation of language corpora of Holocaust testimonies
* Digitization and enhancement of oral and written testimonies
(including automatic speech recognition, alignment of text and
speech, format conversion, OCR, handwriting recognition, machine
translation)
* Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, and events
in testimonies
* Standards, representation formats, and guidelines for annotations
and vocabularies relevant to the Holocaust testimonies
* Creation, adaptation and tuning of software applications for the
creation, annotation, enhancement and use of Holocaust testimonies
as language resources
* Research usingand Holocaust testimonies
o Applications of NLP in analysing Holocaust survivor testimonies
o Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction from
survivor narratives.
* Data Visualisation, Knowledge Representation and Information
Extraction:
o Visualising complex data structures from Holocaust testimonies
o Building knowledge graphs and networks to represent historical
relationships
o Interactive data visualisations for education and research
o Extracting biographical and temporal information relevant to the
Holocaust
o Deep learning and large language models
* Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation:
o Methods and tools for digitising and preserving Holocaust
testimonies
o Best practices for metadata standards and cataloguing
o Ensuring long-term accessibility and data integrity
* Ethical Considerations and Privacy
o Ethical challenges in digitising and sharing sensitive testimonies
o Anonymisation and privacy protection in Holocaust data
o Community engagement and consent in digital projects
* User and application aspects
o Development of tools and interfaces for the search, analysis and
exploration of Holocaust testimonies
o Other relevant use cases and application scenarios
All papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic
of 'Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources'.
*Submission & Publication*
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not
currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions:
* Standard research papers (up to 8 pages, plus more pages for
references if needed);
* Short research papers (from 4 to 6 pages, plus more pages for
references if needed).
Submissions must be anonymous and strictly follow theLREC2024 stylesheet
formatting<https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/>guidelines. All
papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main
conference platform viaSTART
<https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/htres2024/>.
*Important Dates*
* *Paper submission deadline:*21 February 2024
* *Notification of acceptance:*20 March 2024
* *Camera-ready paper:*15 April 2024
* *Workshop date:*21 May 2024
*Organising Committee*
* Isuri Anuradha, University of Wolverhampton, UK
* Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton
* Francesca Frontini, CNR-ILC, Italy & CLARIN
* Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK
* Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
* Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
* Alistair Plum, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
*Programme Committee*
* Le An Ha, Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages and
Information Technology, Vietnam
* Federico Boschetti, CNR-Istituto di, Linguistica Computazionale “A.
Zampolli”, Italy
* Estelle Bunout, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
* Martin Bulin, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
* Tim Cole, University of Bristol, UK
* Angelo Mario Del Grosso, CNR-Istituto di, Linguistica Computazionale
“A. Zampolli”, Italy
* Maria Dermentzi, King’s College London, UK
* Robert Ehrenreich, USHMM, USA
* Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, UK
* Ian Gregory, Lancaster University, UK
* Wolf Gruner, Shoah Foundation, USA
* Arjan van Hessen, Radboud University
* Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University & CLARIN ERIC
* Renana Keydar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
* William J.B. Mattingly, USHMM, USA
* Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Lancaster, University, UK
* Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer, Science, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Poland
* Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
* Rachel Pistol, King’s College London, UK
* Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton, UK
* Jan Svec, University of West Bohemia
* Gabor Toth, University of Luxembourg,Luxembourg
* Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
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Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
[email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530
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