DHCS 2011 Program

Saturday, 19 November 2011

Time Title/Description Category
15:00 Meet and Greet / Birds of a Feather / Help with Local Dining, etc. SOCIAL

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Time Title/Description Category
8:00 Continental Breakfast SOCIAL
9:00 Opening Remarks by co-chairs Jones and Thiruvathukal TALK
9:15 Morning Keynote Presentation
Nick Montfort
Platform Studies		 INVITED TALK
10:15 Coffee and Conversation SOCIAL
Morning Session
10:30 Jana Beck
Adapting Penn Treebank-style Annotation for Ancient Greek		 PAPER
11:00 Thomas Templeton, Sayan Bhattacharyya, Travis Brown and Jordan Boyd-Graber
Mining the Dispatch under Supervision: Using Casualty Counts to Guide Topics from the Richmond Daily Dispatch corpus		 PAPER
11:30 Stephen Ramsay and Brian Pytlik-Zillig
Code Generation Techniques for Document Collection Interoperability		 PAPER
12:00 Lunch Break on Your Own SOCIAL
13:15 Afternoon Keynote Presentation
Barbara M. Stafford
Visualizing Attention: The Need for Conscious Seeing in Visual Search		 INVITED TALK
14:15 Coffee/Cookies
Afternoon Session
14:30 Matthew Wilkens
Geolocation extraction and mapping of nineteenth-century U.S. fiction		 PAPER
15:00 Rebecca Welzenbach
Making the most of free, unrestricted texts: a first look at the promise of the Text Creation Partnership		 PAPER
15:30 Kyle Roberts and Rosemary Dixon
The Opportunities and Challenges of Virtual Library Systems		 PAPER
16:00 Douglas Knox
Time in the Humanities is More Than an X-Axis: Thinking Through the Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey		 PAPER
16:15 Perry Collins
NEH/ODH Opportunities
17:15 Poster/Demo Session and Catered Reception SOCIAL
6:30-7:00 Anne J. Simmons, ThoughtWorks,
What if we could alter the perception of the “Software Developer”		 INVITED TALK
Accepted Posters and Demonstrations
Nicole Finzer and Julie Rudder
The Classicizing Chicago Project		 POSTER
Quinn Dombrowski and Ryan Cordell
DHCommons and Bamboo DiRT: integrating digital humanities directories		 POSTER
Hoyt Long, Peter Leonard and Keith Brisson
Network Analysis of Modernist Japanese Poetry: Theory and Tools		 POSTER
Kurt Fendt and Jia Zhang
At One Glance – Visual Analysis of Reader Interactions with Literary Texts		 POSTER
Jean Bauer
Historical Dates, Digital Records: Examining the Options		 POSTER
Christine Gray and Patrick Juola
Personality Identification through On-Line Textual Analysis		 POSTER
Michael Kramer
Making History in a Virtual Archive: The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project		 DEMO
Loretta Auvil
Software Demonstration: SEASR Analytics		 DEMO
David Staley
Writing Space II		 DEMO

Monday, 21 November 2011

Time Title/Description Category
8:00 Continental Breakfast/Coffee SOCIAL
9:00 Keynote Presentation
Ajita John, Avaya Laboratories
Conversations: Then and Now; How Social Media has changed Interactions and Perspectives		 INVITED TALK
Session 1
10:00 Marco Buchler, Gregory Crane, Martin Mueller, Philip Burns and Gerhard Heyer
One Step Closer To Paraphrase Detection On Historical Texts: About Quality of Text Re-use Techniques and the Ability to Learn Paradigmatic Relations		 PAPER
10:30 Richard Whaling
Faceted Search for a Corpus Query System		 PAPER
11:00 Ted Underwood and Jordan Sellers
Combining topic-modeling and time-series approaches to reveal 18th-century trends		 PAPER
Session 2
11:30 Steve Jones and George K. Thiruvathukal
Platform Studies and the Construction of Game Space: The Nintendo Wii as a social platform		 PAPER
12:00 Nathan Altice
Tool-Assisted: Console Emulation and Platform Plasticity		 PAPER
12:30 Smiljana Antonijevic
Voices from the Field: Practices, challenges and directions in digital humanities scholarship		 PAPER
Steve Jones and George K. Thiruvathukal
Closing Remarks/Adjournment