[Web4lib] Reminder: Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis starts Oct. 11

[Alan Burk]

CaSTA 2006:

 

  A reminder that the 2006 Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis

(CaSTA 2006) starts Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, with the

following workshops:

 

  Phonetic Analysis of Texts: How to See What You Hear

  Using Perl to Make Text Transformation Easier

  Testing Usability and the User Experience

  No More HTML: Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to present XML for the
Web

  A post-conference workshop on Sunday, Oct. 15 entitled

  Using XTeXT to develop search and retrieval web applications

might also be of interest.

 

  Register today for what is sure to be a very interesting

international symposium.

 

  We hope to see you at CaSTA 2006.

 

Regards, 

 

Brad Nickerson and Alan Burk

Conference Organizing Committee, Co-Chairs

 

 

**** CaSTA 2006 registration available announcement ****

 

  Registration is now available for the upcoming CaSTA 2006

conference at:

   www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006

 

  CaSTA 2006 is the 5th in a series of CaSTA conferences, focusing

on text analysis.  This year's conference will bring together

Computer Scientists and Humanities Computing researchers to share

their work on the central issues driving current scholarly

research on the linguistic, visual, and aural manifestations of

text.

 

   Fees are: Regular Registration (Early/Late): $125/$150

             Student Registration (Early/Late): $ 65/$ 75

             Conference Workshops:  $55 for 1/2 day /$85 Full day

   The above rates include all taxes.

   Late fees will apply after September 15, 2006.

 

  CaSTA 2006 is taking place from October 11 to October 15, 2006 in

the beautiful Riverfront Capital of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

There is an exciting program planned with five internationally known and

highly regarded keynote speakers:  William Y. Arms, Computer Science,

Cornell University; Willard McCarty, Reader in Humanities Computing,

King's College, London, UK; Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of

Media Studies, University of Virginia; Ian Munro, Professor of Computer

Science and Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design, University of

Waterloo; and Peter Shillingsburg, Professor of English, De Montfort

University, UK.

 

  A series of interesting pre and post-conference workshops,

presentations based on peer reviewed papers and posters, and a

provocative panel discussion "Humanities Computing Science?", focusing

on research of common interest to humanists, computer and information

scientists are all part of the program.

 

  A promotional poster for printing and posting is available at:

    http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/relatedlinks.php

 

  We look forward to welcoming attendees to CaSTA 2006!

 

**** End of CaSTA 2006 registration available announcement ****