Language Technologies & Digital Humanities 2016

Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
September 29th – October 1st, 2016

www.sdjt.si/jtdh-2016/en/

The 10th Conference on Language Technologies widened its scope to the field of Digital Humanities. Digital humanities is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, radically changing the accepted practices in humanities research but has so far lacked a national or regional event to present its results and encourage discussion. Therefore the Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana (CJVT) and the research infrastructures CLARIN.SI and DARIAH-SI organised the conference “Language Technologies and Digital Humanities” which took place at the end of September 2016.

Conference Proceedings

Videorecordings of the invited lectures

Conference schedule

Photo Gallery

Invited Lectures

  • Laurent Romary, Inria, team Alpage; DARIAH EU infrastructure:
    The Text Encoding Initiative: 30 years of accumulated wisdom and its potential for a bright future
  • Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague:
    Universal Dependencies for Slavic Languages
  • Niels-Oliver Walkowski, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and DARIAH-DE:
    The Landscape of Digital Annotations and its Meaning
  • Oliver Čulo, FTSK University of Mainz:
    Contrasting post-editing and human translation along the dimension of term translation
  • Peter Juel Henrichsen, Copenhagen Business School:
    Speech is Golden – on ASR at the service of the Danish public sector

Apart from the invited and regular talks the conference also included a round table on Slovene terminology and a student session.


Important dates

  • 07. 03. 2016 deadline for submission of extended abstract
  • 04. 04. 2016 notification of acceptance
  • 10. 06. 2016 (optional submission of full paper – extended deadline)
  • 22. 07. 2016 notification of acceptance
  • 25. 08. 2016 registration deadline
  • 01. 09. 2016 submission of final paper or abstract
  • 29. 09.–01. 10. 2016 CONFERENCE

Instructions for authors

The authors first submit extended abstracts, which, on acceptance, can be extended to full papers. These will undergo another round of reviewing, with the final version being published in the conference proceedings. Alternatively, the authors can submit the final version of the extended abstract, which will be published in the book of abstracts. We leave it up to the authors whether to submit their contribution anonymised or not.

The official languages of the conference are English, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin and Macedonian.

The extended abstracts should be at most three pages long and the full papers 4–8 pages. The camera ready papers and abstracts should be formatted according to the conference guidelines:

The contributions are collected using EasyChair by clicking on this link.

The authors of the contributions should indicate if it is a student contribution, where all the authors should be students. These papers will have a separate section at the conference, with the best student paper award.

The abstract booklet and conference proceedings will be available on the Web in time for the conference.

Registration and fees

  • Registration form: click here
  • Registration fee:
    • regular participants: 80 EUR
    • students, co-authors and participants without a paper: free of charge
  • Registration deadline: August 15th 2016

The condition for including the paper in the proceedings is that at least one registration fee is paid for each paper. Students, co-authors and participants without a paper can attend the conference free of charge but must register so that we can organize sufficient lecture rooms, cofee breaks and lunches. The registration fee will be collected by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The deadline for registration is August 15th 2016. After this deadline we will issue an invoice which will need to be paid by September 5th 2016. In case of questions or problems with payment, please contact  andrej.prosen@ff.uni-lj.si.

Accommodation and travel

  • a list of nearby hostels and hotels is available here
  • travel and transfer options to Ljubljana are explained here
  • Ljubljana public transport is explained here

Organisation

Organising committee

  • Darja Fišer (president, SDJT, FF)
  • Jerneja Fridl (DARIAH-SI, ZRC SAZU)
  • Vojko Gorjanc (CJVT, FF)
  • Simon Krek (CJVT, CLARIN.SI, IJS)
  • Mojca Šorn (DARIAH-SI, INZ)
  • Kaja Dobrovoljc (student section, SDJT)

Programme committee

Steering committee

  • Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute (CLARIN.SI, president)
  • Darja Fišer, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (SDJT)
  • Vojko Gorjanc, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (CJVT)
  • Andrej Pančur, Institute of Contemporary History (DARIAH-SI)

Area chairs

  • Speech technologies: Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon d.o.o.
  • Language technologies: Tomaž Erjavec, “Jožef Stefan” Institute
  • Translation studies: Špela Vintar, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • Lexicology and lexicography: Simon Krek, Jožef Stefan Institute / Center for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana
  • Language standardisation: Helena Dobrovoljc, Fran Ramovš Institute of Slovenian Language, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
  • Didactics and literacy pedagogy: Špela Arhar Holdt, Trojina / Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • Education: Karmen Pižorn, Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana
  • Literary studies: Miran Hladnik, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • History studies: Andrej Pančur, Institute of Contemporary History
  • Technology solutions for research and presentation of cultural heritage: Jerneja Fridl, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
  • Digital arts and practices: Jurij Hadalin, Institute of Contemporary History
  • Dissemination and archiving of digital resources: Mojca Šorn, Institute of Contemporary History

Members

  • Zoran Bosnić, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
  • Narvika Bovcon, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
  • Václav Cvrček, Czech National Corpus Institute, Charles University in Prague
  • Vlado Delić, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
  • Simon Dobrišek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
  • Polona Gantar, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • Tatjana Hajtnik, Archive of the Republic of Slovenia
  • Mario Hibert, Faculty of Arts, University of Sarajevo
  • Ivo Ipšić, Technical Faculty, University of Rijeka
  • Mateja Jemec Tomazin, Fran Ramovš Institute of Slovenian Language, ZRC SAZU
  • Zdravko Kačič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor
  • Iztok Kosem, Trojina and Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • Žiga Kokalj, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, ZRC SAZU
  • Mojca Kotar, University of Ljubljana
  • Cvetana Krstev, Faculty of Arts, University of Beograd
  • Drago Kunej, Institute of Ethnomusicology, ZRC SAZU
  • Nikola Ljubešić, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, University of Zagreb
  • Nataša Logar, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
  • Matija Marolt, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
  • France Mihelič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
  • Maja Miličević, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
  • Dunja Mladenić, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Matija Ogrin, Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, ZRC SAZU
  • Miha Peče, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU
  • Dan Podjed, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, ZRC SAZU
  • Marko Robnik-Šikonja, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
  • Tanja Samardžić, University of Zurich
  • Miha Seručnik, Milko Kos Historical Institute, ZRC SAZU
  • Franc Solina, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
  • Marko Stabej, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • Jan Šnajder, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Zagreb
  • Janez Štebe, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
  • Benjamin Štular, Institute of Archaeology, ZRC SAZU
  • Darinka Verdonik, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor
  • Aleš Vaupotič, Research Centre for Humanities, University of Nova Gorica