CSAWA 2022: Computational Systems for Ancient Written Artefacts La Rochelle University La Rochelle, France, May 22, 2022 |
Conference website | https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/csawa2022.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csawa2022 |
Submission deadline | January 4, 2022 |
Acceptance notification | March 8, 2022 |
Camera ready version | April 1, 2022 |
Computational Systems for Ancient Written Artefacts () - Special Session in DASCSAWA
Exchanges between manuscript specialists in the Humanities rarely overcome the chronological and geographical boundaries of each discipline. However, when it comes to applying computational analysis systems, these boundaries are often no longer relevant. On the other hand, computer scientists are eager to test their computational systems on use cases with actual research data in order to develop reliable solutions for the scholars. In many cases, only a cross-disciplinary collaboration between experts from these communities yields significant results. This event will offer a suitable environment for such collaborations and facilitate the exchange between different teams, projects and individuals from the Humanities and computer science.
The goal of this event is to offer visibility to and strengthen communication among interdisciplinary projects developing tools which allow to apply computational approaches to ancient manuscripts. By focusing on delimited subjects and allowing time for demos, this event aims to create the conditions for fruitful exchanges, not only between the participants and contributors within DAS but also with a larger audience from other fields like the Humanities (reduced fees for attendance of this session only).
This event is a special session in the DAS2022 international workshop at La Rochelle. It is planned for a half or full day (depending on the submissions) with a keynote talk, oral presentations and live demos. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and the accepted submissions will be presented in the session and published by Springer.
Safety measures will be considered with regards to COVID-19. The session will be held as a hybrid event with options for online participation.
If you have any question about the workshop, please send an email to Dr. Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello and Dr. Hussein Mohammed.
Call for Papers
We welcome the submission of original, previously unpublished work on computational systems (software tools, web services, etc) developed to analyse historical documents which have reached the state of being accessible to other researchers and scholars. Submissions of previously published systems need to present significant improvements and novel results on actual research questions using ancient written artefacts. These systems need to be freely available with or without open-source code on repositories like github, and sufficiently complete and documented to be used and tested.
Participants are encouraged to prepare a demonstration of their systems in addition to their oral presentations. This session will favor submissions which have been applied to actual use cases from manuscript research or developed in a close collaboration with scholars.Instructions for Authors
Instructions for Authors
The submitted papers should be up to 15 pages in length, and are not being considered in another forum. This restriction does not apply to unpublished technical reports or papers included in self-archive repositories (departmental, arXiv.org, etc.) that are not peer-reviewed.
By submitting a paper to this Workshop all authors implicitly agree to be bound by the IAPR Ethical Requirements for Authors. Submissions will be managed via Easychair and undergo a single blind review by the members of the Program Committee. It is not required to anonymize the submission, but authors are welcome to do so if they prefer it.
The submitted papers should follow the same policy and conditions of DAS 2022 conference papers. Papers should be formatted according to the instructions and style files provided by Springer. The LaTeX template for LNCS can be downloaded here. It is also available on Overleaf. You can download the LNCS Guidelines for authors.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello and Dr. Hussein Mohammed.
List of Topics
- Historical document analysis
- Computational analysis of collections from museums, libraries and archives
- Image enhancement for digitised manuscripts
- Platforms for online reconstruction, editions and annotations of written artefacts
- Layout analysis in historical documents (e.g. detection of different layout structures and text lines)
- HTR tools for ancient written artefacts (e.g. generate, improve, compare models)
- Tools for computational paleography (e.g. characterisation and visualization of handwriting features)
- Recognition, detection, and classification of handwriting elements
- Scribe identification systems
- Analysis tools for writing supports
Committees
Organizing committee
- Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, project d-scribes, Universität Basel
- Hussein A. Mohammed, CSMC, Universität Hamburg
- Marie Beurton-Aimar, LABRI Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux
- Mickael Coustaty, IDEAS, La Rochelle Université
Publication
CSAWA 2022 proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Venue
The CSAWA session will be held in La Rochelle University, La Rochelle, France.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello and Dr. Hussein Mohammed.