Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science
Deadlines:
1 August 2014, abstracts of ~ 750 words and a minimal bio sent to martinmueller@northwestern.edu.
31 August 2014, Deadline for Early Registration Discount.
19 September 2014, Dealing for group rate reservations at the Orrington Hotel.
23-24 October, 2014 Colloquium.
From the call for papers:
The ninth annual meeting of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be hosted by Northwestern University on October 23-24, 2014.
…The DHCS Colloquium has been a lively regional conference (with non-trivial bi-coastal and overseas sprinkling), rotating since 2006 among the University of Chicago (where it began), DePaul, IIT, Loyola, and Northwestern. At the first Colloquium Greg Crane asked his memorable question “What to do with a million books?” Here are some highlights that I remember across the years:
- An NLP programmer at Los Alamos talking about the ways security clearances prevented CIA analysts and technical folks from talking to each other.
- A demonstration that if you replaced all content words in Arabic texts and focused just on stop words you could determine with a high degree of certainty the geographical origin of a given piece of writing.
- A visualization of phrases like “the king’s daughter” in a sizable corpus, telling you much about who owned what.
- A social network analysis of Alexander the Great and his entourage.
- An amazingly successful extraction of verbal parallels from very noisy data.
- Did you know that Jane Austen was a game theorist before her time and that her characters were either skillful or clueless practitioners of this art?
And so forth. Given my own interests, I tend to remember “Text as Data” stuff, but there was much else about archaeology, art, music, history, and social or political life. You can browse through some of the older programs at http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/dhcs/.
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One of the weather sites promises that October is between 42 F for the low and 62 F for the high (on average). Sounds like a nice time to visit Northwestern University!
To say nothing of an exciting conference!
I first saw this in a tweet by David Bamman.