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Toward Computational Models
of Literary Analysis
May 22nd, 2006, Genova (Italy)
jointly held with the International
Conference on
Language Resources
and Evaluation, LREC 2006
May 22nd-28th, 2006
Workshop
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PROGRAM
Motivations and Aims
It has been often noticed that computer based literary
critics is still relying on studies of concordances as traditionally intended
since the 13th century. All the intermediate digital representations
(storage, indexes, data structures or records) are not capitalized although
they can play the role of a new literary "monster" (like the
Cheiron centaur) as a new meaningful, artistic and hermeneutic macro
unit. It is indeed true that the digital representation, its metadata and its
digital derivatives (e.g. indexes, parse trees, semantic references to
external dictionaries) are new and more complex forms of
"concordances" and should be used by the literary scholar in
cooperation with the original content. New processes of narrative analysis
should thus take all of this into account by exploiting the fruitful
interactions among the parts of the monster within suitable software
architectures (that are thus more complex than digital archives/catalogs).
In the Natural Language Processing research community,
a wide range of computational methods have been successfully applied to
information and document management, ranging from text categorization and
information extraction, to ontology leaning, text mining and automatic
semantic mark-up. Although these methods are mostly applied to technical
texts in application-driven contexts, their use could be expanded to
encompass a larger typology of texts, thereby gaining new powerful insights
for the analysis of literary text content and paving the way for new
experiments and forms of text hermeneutics. The development of language
resources in this area is also rather limited and more interdisciplinary
research is needed to open the field to realistic and effective applications.
Objectives
The long term research enterprise in this field should
aim to design novel paradigms for literary studies that are:
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more information-centered, as they work at a
higher level of abstraction
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interactive with the scholar, as the software is
proactive with respect to the literary work
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multifunctional and integrated
as they support incremental refinement of internal knowledge of the opera
along with more interaction with the expert takes place.
This workshop aims to gather studies, achievements and
experiences from scholars belonging to different schools (literary studies,
linguistics, computing technologies, artificial intelligence, human-computer
interaction) in order to survey, compare and assess currently independent
research enterprises whose focus is narrative and literary text analysis.
The aim is to discuss at which extent the textual
evidences currently observable through digital technologies can support the
computational treatment of narrative and literary phenomena. Results in these
area have an invaluable impact on the technological side (as a novel
challenge for computational models of language and narrative) as well as on
the cultural side (as new perspectives for human-computer interaction and
modern literary analysis). Moreover, the enormous potentials offered to
cultural heritage preservation and dissemination are evident.
Topics
The
topics addressed by the workshop are not exhaustively listed as follows:
- Narrative
Models for Human-Computer Interaction
- Text Mining
for Analysis of narrative and literary texts
- Machine Learning
and Knowledge Acquisition from literary texts
- Literary
Corpora and Resources
- Ontologies of
narrative phenomena
- Cognitive
Models of aesthetics
- Semantic
annotations of literary corpora
Workshop format.
The
workshop will be a half-day event with position statements from invited
speakers with remaining time for presentations of scientific papers.
Submissions are intended to present works in progress and more completed
works which fall within the scope defined by the topics listed above. A
final 1 hour open discussion among all the workshop participants will be
moderated by the organizers.
Submission
Position
papers (orientative length: 1000 words) are invited about studies,
achievements and experiences from scholars from different areas (narrative
analysis, literary studies, linguistics, computing technologies, artificial
intelligence) aiming to survey, compare and assess currently independent
research enterprises whose focus is narrative and literary text analysis.
Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact
author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers.
Submissions must be sent electronically in PDF to the following address:
Roberto Basili, basili@info.uniroma2.it
Organizing Committe
Roberto Basili
(University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) (co-chair)
Simonetta
Bassi (University of Pisa & SIGNUM, SNS, Italy)
Marc
Cavazza (University of Teeside, UK)
Richard
Coyne (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Pierantonio
Frare (University of Milan, Italy)
Andrea
Gareffi (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy)
Graeme
Hirst, (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jerry Hobbs
(ISI, University of Southern California, USA)
Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Alessandro Lenci (University
of Pisa, Italy) (co-chair)
Marco Pennacchiotti (University of Roma,
Tor Vergata, Italy)
Mirko
Tavoni (University of Pisa, Italy)
Yorick
Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Submission
Position
papers (orientative length: 1000 words) are invited about studies,
achievements and experiences from scholars from different areas (narrative
analysis, literary studies, linguistics, computing technologies, artificial
intelligence) aiming to survey, compare and assess currently independent
research enterprises whose focus is narrative and literary text analysis.
Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact
author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers.
Submissions must be sent electronically in PDF to the following address:
Roberto Basili: basili@info.uniroma2.it
Important dates
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Paper due
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February
24th, 2006
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Notification of acceptance
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March
10th, 2006
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Preliminary Program
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March
25th, 2006
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Camera-ready
papers due
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April
5th, 2006
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Workshop
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May
22nd, 2006
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Further Information
Roberto Basili
e-mail: basili@info.uniroma2.it
Deptartment of Computer Science, Systems and
Management
University of Roma, Tor
Vergata
Via del Politecnico,
00133 Roma (ITALY)
tel: +39 06 72597391
fax: +39 06 72597460
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