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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:05:25 +0100
From: Scott Songlin Piao <scott.piao@...>
To: "corpora@..." <corpora@...>

Call for Papers
Workshop on Text Mining Applications in the Social Sciences
Manchester, 18 June 2008
in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on e-Social Science
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Following our agenda setting workshop in 2006, "Bridging quantitative and
qualitative methods for social sciences using text mining techniques", we invite
submissions to this workshop which will be held at the 4th International
Conference on e-Social Science (http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/) on
any topic of current interest in relation to the application of text mining
techniques in the social sciences.

We especially encourage submissions on (but not only):

* The limitations of current tools for qualitative social science
* Emerging applications of TM for qualitative social science, e.g.,
o Frame analysis
o Systematic reviews
o Summarisation
o Content analysis
o Sentiment analysis
* Text mining tools and their relevance to qualitative social science, e.g.,
o document clustering and classification
o Named entity recognition for social sciences
o Lexica, thesauri and ontologies
o Metadata creation for qualitative data
* Creation of annotated corpora for text mining applications
* Evaluation methodologies
* Topic identification

The format of the workshop will consist of a number of presentations followed by
discussion sessions.

Submission deadline: May 23, 2008

Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2008

Workshop: June 18, 2008

Submission instructions:

Potential participants should submit a one page summary of their interest in the
topic of text mining applications in the social sciences, for example, ongoing
research, preliminary results, application notes or ideas that they would like
to explore. Potential participants should also indicate whether they would like
to give a presentation.

Please email submissions to sophia.ananiadou@...

Workshop organisers:

Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester
Rob Procter, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester

Program Committee

Eric Atwell, University of Leeds
John McNaught, University of Manchester
Scott Piao, University of Manchester
Brian Rea, University of Manchester
Andrew Wilson, Lancaster University