Call for Papers: * HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language
Resources *Pre-conference workshop at LREC-COLING 2024
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/)
Tuesday, 21st May, 2024 in Torino, Italy
Workshop webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
** Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024 **
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.
Topics of interest:
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
* Digitisation 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 using NLP and Holocaust testimonies
* Applications of NLP in analysing Holocaust survivor testimonies
* Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction from survivor
narratives.
Data Visualisation, Knowledge Representation and Information Extraction:
* Visualising complex data structures from Holocaust testimonies
* Building knowledge graphs and networks to represent historical
relationships
* Interactive data visualisations for education and research
* Extracting biographical and temporal information relevant to the
Holocaust
* Deep learning and large language models
Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation:
* Methods and tools for digitising and preserving Holocaust testimonies
* Best practices for metadata standards and cataloguing
* Ensuring long-term accessibility and data integrity
Ethical Considerations and Privacy
* Ethical challenges in digitising and sharing sensitive testimonies
* Anonymisation and privacy protection in Holocaust data
* Community engagement and consent in digital projects
User and application aspects
* Development of tools and interfaces for the search, analysis and
exploration of Holocaust testimonies
* 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'.
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 should strictly follow the LREC2024 stylesheet formatting
guidelines. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format
via the main conference platform via START
(https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/htres2024/)
Important Dates:
Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2024
Camera-ready version submission: 15 April 2024
Workshop date: 21 May 2024
Programme:
Please refer to the website for the details of the programme, plus the
organizing and programme committees: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
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Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
martin.wy...@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530
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