Conference: Full Schedule

DHCS 2009 Conference Schedule

Saturday, November 14 (Pre-conference in McCormick-Tribune Campus Center)

1:00 - 5:00          Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop Sessions

Sunday, November 15 (Main conference in Hermann Hall Ballroom)
           

8:30 - 9:15           Breakfast & Registration

9:15--9:30            Welcoming Statements

                            R. Russell Betts, Dean of the College of Science and Letters, Illinois Institute of Technology

9:30 - 11:00          Paper Session 1 Text Analysis

Citation Detection and Textual Reuse on Ancient Greek texts

Marco Büchler, Annette Geßner (University of Leipzig)

Metaforager: A Pattern-Learning System for Large-Scale Metaphor Extraction

Jenny Loomis (Stanford)

On the Origin of Theories: The Semantic Analysis of Analogy in a Scientific Corpus

Devin Griffiths (Rutgers University)

BREAK

11:15 - 12:15        Paper Session 2  Visualization and Data Mining

Big See: Large Scale Visualization

Geoffrey Rockwell, Garry Wong, Stan Ruecker, Megan Meredith-Lobay, and Stéfan Sinclair (University of Alberta and McMaster University)

New Insights: Dynamic Timelines in Digital Humanities

Kurt Fendt (MIT)

12:15--12:30        National Endowment for the Humanities and the Office of Digital Humanities

                            Michael Hall (NEH)

12:30--2:00          Lunch

2:00 - 3:15           Keynote Address: Vasant Honavar

                      Humanities as Information Sciences

BREAK

3:30 - 5:30            Poster and Demo Session (Hermann Hall Alumni Lounge)

5:45 - 6:45            Reception (MTCC Lew Collins Welcome Center)

7:00 - 10:00          Banquet (MTCC Pritzker Club)

7:45 - 9:00            Keynote Address: Roger Dannenberg

                             The Music Technology Revolution

           

Monday, November 16 (Main conference in Hermann Hall Ballroom)

8:30 - 9:45            Breakfast

                             Posters Sessions & Software Demos (redux)

9:45 - 10:45          Paper Session 3  Stylistics

Computational Phonostylistics: Computing the Sounds of Poetry

Marc Plamondon (Nipissing University)

Features from Frequency: Authorship and Stylistic Analysis Using Repetitive Sound

C. W. Forstall (SUNY Buffalo) and W. J. Scheire (U. Colorado at Colorado Springs)

Mapping Genre Space via Random Conjectures
Patrick Juola (Duquesne University)

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11:00 - 12:30        Keynote Address: Stephen Wolfram

                            What Can Be Made Computable in the Humanities?

12:30 - 2:00          Lunch

2:00 - 3:00            Paper Session 4  Algorithmic Tools

Who's Who in Your Digital Collection? Developing a Tool for Name Disambiguation and Identity Resolution

Jean Godby (OCLC), Patricia Hswe (UIUC), Judith Klavans (UMD), Hyoungtae Cho (UMD), Dan Roth (UIUC), Lev Ratinov (UIUC), and Larry Jackson (UIUC)

Discovering Latent Relations of Concepts by Graph Mining Approaches

Marco Büchler (University of Leipzig)

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3:15 - 4:00            Round-Table Panel

                             Moderator: Martin Mueller (Northwestern)

                             Panel: Shlomo Argamon (IIT), Vasant Honavar (Iowa), Geoffrey Rockwell (Alberta), Joseph Rudman (CMU)

4:00                      Closing remarks