Introduction
Facing the Era of AI+DH
The Digital Humanities is an emerging field of research, the term itself having only been coined in 2004. Notwithstanding the fact that research in this area is quite new, the digital humanities have been flourishing at an unprecedented rate. In recent years, whether in Europe, America, Asia or Taiwan, various research institutes and teams dedicated to research and development in the digital humanities have been established. This demonstrates the high level of interest in and importance attached to this field by the community.
The core concept of the field of digital humanities is the application of modern digital technologies to the disciplines of the traditional humanities, in order to overcome the limitations of traditional research methodologies. This combination of knowledge and technology, in an interdisciplinary manner, is unachievable in any single area. The development of the field of digital humanities is in fact indissociable from the progress of new digital technologies. These new technologies not only provide new methods of data analysis, but can also be used to create new types of digital resources.
In recent years, major breakthroughs have been made in the field of artificial intelligence. Various types of A.I. technologies have gradually evolved from theoretical speculation into concrete reality with practical applications, with remarkable results. However, to answer what the intelligence is makes A.I. deeply related to humanities. For example, Natural Language Processing technology in A.I. assembles an important subdomain of linguistics — computational linguistics. Besides, A.I. technologies which mimic the structure of human intelligence, such as the Semantic Web, Ontology, the Knowledge Graph, Linked Open Data, are based on the theory of ontology in philosophy.
What kind of applications and breakthroughs can these digital technologies bring to the digital humanities? How should humanities scholars view the results of an artificial intelligence based on digital resources? Compared to traditional humanities studies which only consider a limited corpus of text, artificial intelligence can process a large body of data, with the exception of a limited number of research methods. In the last analysis, do these new technologies provide more help for the study of the humanities, or are their results unconvincing? All these topics are subjects this conferences seeks to examine and discuss.
Given the growth of the field of the digital humanities, this conference will continue over the years to research every facet of the digital humanities, but will also include the topic of ‘Facing the Era of AI+DH’ as its theme. We invite scholars and experts, at home and abroad, to participate in this session, and look forward to creating new milestones in digital studies through dialog and exchange.
Committee
Conference Preparatory Committee
Honorary Chair
- Hsiang Jieh, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University; Director, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University
Chair
- Hung Jen-jou, Associate Professor, Department of Buddhist Studies, DILA; Director of the Library and Information Center, DILA
Advisory Board
- Huimin Bhikshu, President, DILA
- Wu Mi-cha, Director, Academia Historica
- Chu Ping-tzu, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University
- Chang Su-bing, Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwan History, National Taiwan Normal University
- Chen Kuang-hua, Professor, Department and Graduate Institute of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University; Director of the Library, National Taiwan University
- Chen Shu-heng, Vice-President, National Chengchi University
- Hsiang Jieh, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering; Director, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University
- Liu Chao-lin, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University
- Liu Cheng-yun, Research Fellow, Academica Sinica, Institute of History and Philology
- Lay Jinn-guey, Professor, National Institute of Geography and Environmental Resources; Director, Center for Teacher Education, National Taiwan University
- Lin Chao-chen, Professor and Department Head, Department of Chinese Literature, National Cheng Kung University
- Marcus Bingenheimer, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Temple University, USA
- Christian Wittern, Professor, Center for Informatics in East-Asian Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Local Organizing Committee
- Tsai Po-lang, Vice-President, DILA
- Shih Guo-huei, Associate Professor, Head of Department, Department of Buddhist Studies, DILA
- Mei Ching-hsuan, Assistant Professor, Department of Buddhist Studies; Division Director of the Scholarly Publishing Group, DILA
Program Chair
- Wang Yu-chun, Assistant Professor, Department of Buddhist Studies; Division Director of the Informatics Group, DILA
Call for paper
Important date
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions of abstracts relating (but not limited) to the following aspects of artificial intelligence and digital humanities:
- Development of digital technologies and their applications to help advance humanities studies (including digital media, data mining, software design, and modeling, etc.).
- Applications of text mining, social network analysis, visualization and graphics.
- Interdisciplinary research and humanities research in literature studies, linguistics, culture, history, etc., conducted with digital data and technology.
- Digital Humanities Theory and Epistemology
- Impact of digital humanities on humanities education.
- Innovative forms of digital arts such as music, film and theatre; and digital applications such as digital design, virtual reality, games and new media.
- Other DH-related topics.
Publications
Conference Proceedings will be distributed during the conference. All authors who attend the conference will be invited to submit revised papers to the Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (Taiwanese Association for Digital Humanities). Detailed information will be announced later.
Guidlines
Submission Guidelines
- Submission of a single paper abstract, poster abstract, or a panel proposal is welcomed.
- All submissions are to be done online.
(website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dadh2018) - Submitted abstract for a single paper should contain 1,000-3,000 words.
- Submitted abstract for a poster should contain 750-1,500 words.
- Submitted panel proposal should contain at least 1,500 words. The panel proposal should provide an overview and the abstracts of 3-4 papers.
- The papers will be reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full papers by October 1st, 2018.
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Important Date
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Conference Date
Dec 18
2018
toDec 21
2018
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Jul 15 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline
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Aug 31 2018
Draft Paper Acceptance Notification
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Oct 01 2018
Draft paper submission deadline
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Oct 01 2018
Final Paper Deadline
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Dec 21 2018
Registration deadline
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