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Date: 9 Aug 1996 15:04:58 -0700
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Forwarded: ACH-ALLC97 CfP
From: barker@qucis.queensu.ca (Nancy Barker)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 16:14:38 -0400
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Call For Papers
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING
JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97
June 3-7, 1997
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97
ACH-ALLC97 invites submissions of between 1000 and 2000 words on any
aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as the point of
intersection between computing methodologies and problems, both
traditional and new, in humanities research and teaching.
Appropriate areas include, but are not limited to, languages and
literature, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, linguistics,
anthropology, archaeology, art history, creative writing, and cultural
studies. We particularly encourage submissions from non-text-based
areas, which have been under-represented in the past.
We are interested in receiving
technical proposals that focus on new computational tools and
approaches to research in humanities disciplines;
proposals that focus on traditional applications of computing in
humanities disciplines, including (but not limited to) text encoding,
hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical
models,
and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis;
proposals which present and discuss applications of computing
methodologies and tools to audio and visual materials;
proposals that focus on significant issues in the creation and
management of digital resources relevant to the humanities, including
design, documentation, storage, representation, discovery and
retrieval;
proposals that either present or evaluate software applications and
uses for humanities-based teaching;
proposals dealing with the role of humanities computing in
undergraduate and graduate training and institutional support for
humanities computing.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those describing
finished research should be submitted as papers. Less advanced
dissertation research or work not fully completed may be submitted
either as a poster or as part of a panel session. See below for
details.
Students and young scholars should also read the note on bursaries
later
in this document.
Proposals may be submitted in either English or French.
The deadline for proposals for papers and sessions is 20 NOVEMBER 1996;
for posters and software demos it is 8 JANUARY 1997.
TYPES OF PROPOSAL
Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software
demonstrations,
and sessions. The type of submission should be specified in the header
of
the proposal.
PAPERS
Proposals for papers (1000-2000 words) should describe completed
research
which has given rise to substantial results. Individual papers will be
allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions.
Proposals should describe original work. Those that concentrate on the
development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the
methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the
humanities,
and should include some critical assessment of the application of those
methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular
application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as
computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some
critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals
should include conclusions and references to important sources.
POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either
stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) are designed
to
give researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results,
significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that
is
best communicated in conversational mode.
By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more
interactive
than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to
exchange
ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail
with
those most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is
provided with about 2 square metres of board space to display their
work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed
information. Posters remain displayed throughout the conference, but a
block of time separate from paper sessions will be assigned when
presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer
questions. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project
demonstrations.
The format for proposals for posters and software demonstrations is
the same as those for regular papers. The deadline for submissions
is 8 JANUARY 1997.
Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indicate the
type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted.
SESSIONS
Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:
Three papers on a related topic. The session organizer should submit a
500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of
1000-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is
willing
to participate in the session. The papers might develop a topic in
depth, or approach it from multiple, even conflicting, viewpoints. Or:
A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit
an abstract of 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be
organized, the names of all the speakers and their contributions, and
an
indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.
The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for
papers (i.e. 20 NOVEMBER 1996.)
FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS
With rare exceptions, submissions must be sent electronically. Please
pay particular attention to the format given below. The files will be
used not only for the referee's reviews, but also for publishing the
booklet of printed abstracts and for placing abstracts on the Web.
Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the
authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very
close to the deadline.
All submissions should begin with the following information:
TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, session or software demonstration.
TITLE: title of paper
KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main
contents of the paper
AUTHOR: name of first author
AFFILIATION: of first author
E-MAIL: of first author
AUTHOR: name of second author  (repeat these three headings as
necessary)
AFFILIATION: of second author
E-MAIL: of second author
CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author
FAX NUMBER: of first author
PHONE NUMBER: of first author
The body of the paper should be in extended ASCII format (i.e.
ISO-8859/1
or Latin-1) with limited html markup:
- - Copy the title (but NOT the author names) within  tags.
- - Embed section headings within 
 .
- - Use  and  and/or  and  where necessary within paragraphs
to mark bold and italic.
- - Terminate paragraphs with 

.
- - Construct simple tables to appear correctly in ASCII, and surround
them with 


 

.

- - For pictures, diagrams, Kanji characters, complicated tables and
  anything else not easily covered by the preceding rules, create .gif
  files. The .gif files should be sent as "attachments" to the
email
  submission. References to .gif files in the text should be links of
  the form  where filename is the name of the
  image file. (Note that, at OUR end, the .gif files will be in the
  same directory as the main text.)

Notes, if needed, should take the form of endnotes rather than
footnotes.

Submissions should be sent to:

                   achallc97-papers@qucis.queensu.ca

with the subject line "