Call for Papers: 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and
Computer Science
DHCS Colloquium, November 1 – 3, 2008
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2008
The goal of the annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and
Computer Science (DHCS) is to bring together researchers and scholars
in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of
digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify
and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. The
first DHCS Colloquium in 2006 (http://dhcs2006.uchicago.edu/) examined
the challenges and opportunities posed by the “million books”
digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 (http://dhcs.northwestern.edu/
) focused on searching and querying as both tools and methodologies.
The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Making Sense” – an
exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the
transition from the digital to the analog.
We invite submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that
intersect current theory and practice in the humanities and computer
science.
Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computation Institute, NSIT
Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of
Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and
Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Website:
Location:
The University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Keynote Speakers:
* Oren Etzioni is director of the Turing Center and professor of
computer science at the University of Washington where his current
research interests (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/index.html
) include fundamental problems in the study of artificial
intelligence, web search, machine reading, and machine learning.
Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, a company that utilizes data
mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations, and the
KnowItAll project, which is is building domain-independent systems to
extract information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner.
Etzioni has published extensively in his field and served as an
associate editor of the ACM Transactions on the Web and on the
editorial board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,
amongst others.
* Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and new media artist whose
work focuses on the visual explorations of culturally significant data
(http://www.bewitched.com/). He is the founding manager of IBM’s
Visual Communication Lab, which researches new forms of visualization
and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab’s latest project
is Many Eyes (http://www.many-eyes.com/), an experiment in open public
data visualization and analysis. Wattenberg is also known for his
visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited at the London
Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the New York Museum of Modern Art.
* Stephen Downie is associate professor in the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. His research interests (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=jdownie
) include the design and evaluation of IR systems, including
multimedia music information retrieval, the political economy of inter-
networked communication systems, database design and web-based
technologies. Downie is the principal investigator of the
International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation
Laboratory (IMIRSEL) which is working on producing a large, secure
corpus of audio and symbolic music data accessible to the music
information retrieval (MIR) community.
Program Committee:
* Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science department, Illinois Institute of
Technology
* Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* John Goldsmith, Department of Linguistics, Computer Science,
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
* Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near
East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library
* Robert Morrissey, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
* Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern
University
* Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of
Chicago
* Anne Rogers, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
* Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, Computation Institute,
University of Chicago
* Kotoka Suzuki, Department of Music, Visual Arts, University of Chicago
* Gary Tubb, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations,
University of Chicago
Call for Participation:
Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions
for:
* Paper presentations (20 minute maximum)
* Poster sessions
* Software demonstrations
* Performances
* Pre-conference tutorials/workshops
* Pre-conference ‘birds of a feather’ meetings
Preliminary Colloquium Schedule:
DHCS will begin with a half-day, pre-conference on Saturday, November
1 offering introductory tutorials on topics such as text analysis/data-
mining and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the
humanities. We also encourage colloquium attendees to use the pre-
conference period for informal “birds of a feather” meetings on topics
of common interest (e.g. “digital archaeology”).
The formal DHCS colloquium program runs from Sunday, November 2 to
Monday, November 3 and will consist of four, 1-1/2 hour paper panels
and two, two-hour poster sessions as well as three keynotes. Generous
time has been set aside for questions and follow-up discussions after
each panel and in the schedule breaks. There are no parallel sessions.
For further details, please see the preliminary colloquium schedule (http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs2008/schedule/
).
Suggested Submission Topics:
* Computing Cinematic Syntax
* Statistical Analyses and Literary Meaning
* Visualizing Humanist Data: Lessons from Industry & Big Science
* Sound, Video & Image based Information Retrieval
* Genetic Algorithms and Computational Intelligence
* Web Services for Humanist Scholarship
* Serious Gaming / Meaningful Play
* Cartography and the Digital Traveler / GIS Applications for the
Humanities
* Representing Reading Time
* Computer-mediated Interaction
* Gestural & Haptic Control for Music Composition
* Deconstructing Machine Learning
* Recognizing and Modeling Objects, Scenes & Events in 2D, 3D and Video
* Contemporary Art / Creative Technologies
* Historicizing Machine Learning Ontologies
* Cyberinfrastructure and High-Performance Computing for the Humanities
* Programming Algorithmic Art
* Virtual Acoustic Space and Aural Architecture
* Eye Tracking & Scene Perception in the Cinema
* Future Interactive Fictions
* Semantic Search / Semantic Web
* Automatic Extraction and Analysis of Natural Language Style Elements
* Music Perception and Cognition
* Social Scholarship / Socialized Search
* Multi-agent Systems for Modeling Language Change
* Empirical Philosophy / Affective Computing / Augmented Vision
Submission Format:
Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or
MS Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu.
Graduate Student Travel Fund:
A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate
students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and
accommodation expenses. No separate application form is required.
Current graduate students whose proposals have been accepted will be
contacted by the organizers with more details.
Important Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 31
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 15
Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 22
Registration: Monday, September 22 – Friday, October 24
Colloquium: Saturday, November 1 – Monday, November 3
Contact Info:
Please email dhcs-conference@listhost.uchicago.edu or tweet dhcs2008 (http://twitter.com/dhcs2008
).
Organizing Committee:
* Arno Bosse, Senior Director for Technology, Humanities Division,
University of Chicago.
* Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near
East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library.
* Mark Olsen, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
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