Last Call for Contribution: Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages

[Maria Moritz]

**With apologies for cross-posting**

Call for Contribution: Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of
Intertextuality in Ancient Languages
http://jdmdh.episciences.org/page/call-for-contribution-special-issue

"Europe's future is digital". This was the headline of a speech given at
the Hannover exhibition in April 2015 by Günther Oettinger,
EU-Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. While businesses and
industries have already made major advances in digital ecosystems, the
digital transformation of texts stretching over a period of more than
two millennia is far from complete. On the one hand, mass digitisation
leads to an "information overload" of digitally available data; on the
other, the "information poverty" embodied by the loss of books and the
fragmentary state of ancient texts form an incomplete and biased view of
our past. In a digital ecosystem, this coexistence of data overload and
poverty adds considerable complexity to scholarly research.

With this special issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality
in Ancient Languages, the HiSoMA lab in Lyon, France, and the Göttingen
Centre for Digital Humanities in Germany, aim to create a collection of
papers that discuss the state-of-the-art on intertextuality, linguistic
preprocessing and the preservation of
scholarly research results specifically applied to corpora in ancient
languages and for which few online resources exist (Ancient Greek,
Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Ethiopic, etc.).

Relevant topics include:

* Methods for the detection of intertexts and text reuse, manual (e.g.
crowd-sourcing) or automatic (e.g. algorithms);
* Infrastructure for the preservation of digital texts and quotations
between different text passages;
* Linguistic preprocessing and data normalisation, such as
lemmatisation of historical languages, root stemming, normalisation
of variants, etc.;
* Visualisation of intertextuality and text reuse;
* Creation of, and research on, stemmata.

The special issue will be published by the Journal on Data Mining and
Digital Humanities (http://jdmdh.episciences.org/), an online open
access journal that will release the issue shortly after its submission
in order to elicit feedback from readers while concurrently supervising
the standard peer review process.

Interested authors are asked to:

1) send a title, an author list and a one page (or shorter) abstract
specifying the type of contribution (full paper or project presentation)
to Laurence Mellerin [laurence.mellerin(at)mom(dot)fr] and Marco Büchler
[mbuechler(at)gcdh(dot)de] by October 31st.

2) send a paper (long: up to 40 pages OR short: 2 to 4 pages
illustrating the scope and research of the project), following the
guidelines of JDMDH, which can be found at
http://jdmdh.episciences.org/page/submissions by January 31st 2016.

For further questions, do not hesitate to contact Laurence and Marco.

--
Maria Moritz
Göttingen Center for Digital Humanities
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Georg-August-University Göttingen
Papendiek 16
D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

phone: +49 551 39-20479
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