LaTeCH 2014 - The 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2014)

The 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014) which will take place in April 26-30, 2014, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The workshop is a follow-up to LaTeCH 2007 held at ACL, in Prague, Czech Republic, LaTeCH 2008 at LREC, in Marrakech, Morocco, LaTeCH 2009 at EACL, in Athens, Greece, LaTeCH 2010 at ECAI, in Lisbon, Portugal, LaTeCH 2011 at ACL/HLT, in Portland, Oregon, USA, LaTeCH 2012 at EACL, in Avignon, France, and, LaTeCH 2013 at at ACL, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Scope and Topics
The LaTeCH workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on developing novel information technology for improved information access to data from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage. It is endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM).
In the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities there is increasing interest in and demand for NLP methods for semantic annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning, and visualization of both primary and secondary data, which holds even for collections that are primarily non-textual, as text is also the pervasive medium used for metadata.
These domains of application entail new challenges for NLP research, such as noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, multilingual parts within one document, lack of digital semantic resources, or resource-intensive approaches that call for (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or, as a last resort, intense manual effort. Digital libraries still lack tools for content analysis; documents are linked mostly through metadata, and deep semantic annotation is missing.
This edition of the LaTeCH workshop will have as special topic the theme of Linked data in the Humanities and in particular:
Semantic linking of objects in digital libraries and
Deep annotation of documents in the humanties
We are also looking for contributions on other topics related to language technology research for the domains of cultural heritage, social sciences, and the humanities, such as:
Adapting NLP tools to cultural heritage, social sciences, and humanities domains
Modelling of information and knowledge
Automatic creation of semantic resources
Automatic error detection and cleaning
Complex annotation tools and interfaces
Dealing with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language
Discourse and narrative analysis
Linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains
Research infrastructure and standardisation efforts
Sentiment analysis
Text mining and text analytics
User modeling, recommendation, personalisation
Information for authors
Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers presenting completed work, we also invite short papers and system descriptions (demos):
Long papers should present completed work and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references.
Short papers/demos can present work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, with two (2) additional pages of references.