Call for papers
Göttingen, 1-2 June, 2017
The DATeCH international conference brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form.
7 January 2017 - Paper submission deadline
28 February 2017 - Decision notification
31 March 2017 - Camera-ready papers due
1-2 June 2017 - Conference
The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas:
Text digitization and OCR.
Digital humanities.
Image and document analysis.
Digital libraries and library science.
Applied computational linguistics.
Crowdsourcing.
Interfaces and human-computer interaction.
Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as:
OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages.
Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results.
Automated quality control for mass OCR data.
Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora.
Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek).
Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities.
Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices.
Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities.
Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora.
Data created with mobile devices.
Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices.
Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources.
The conference will take place in the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Historical Building, in the framework of the Digitisation Days (1-2 June, 2017).
The programme committee is chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Salford University, UK) and Marco Büchler (Georg August University Göttingen, Germany) and integrated by:
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The following criteria will be applied to all papers submitted to DATeCH 2017 (http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/submissions/):
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 6 pages in length.
Only original material will be accepted.
All submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, indexed in a major digital library.
The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied).
For additional information, please visit http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/ or send an email to dat...@digitisation.eu.
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