October 3, 2006 Source: :
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CASTA CONFERENCE October 3, 2006
UNB Fredericton News Release: D732
Natalie Montgomery, Public Relations Officer (506) 451-6842 Five internationally known and highly regarded researchers in the area of
text analysis will highlight the 2006 Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis
(CaSTA) being held at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton from
Oct. 11 to 15. Entitled Breadth of Text, the conference will bring together
computer scientists and humanities computing researchers who will share
their work on the central issues driving current scholarly research on the
linguistic, visual, and aural manifestations of text. Keynote addresses will be delivered by William Y. Arms, computer science at
Cornell University; Willard McCarty, reader in humanities computing at
King's College in London, UK; Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of media
studies at the University of Virginia; Ian Munro, professor of computer
science and Canada Research Chair in algorithm design at the University of
Waterloo; and Peter Shillingsburg, professor of English at De Montfort
University, UK. Conference attendees will also take part in pre-conference workshops,
presentations based on peer reviewed papers, and a closing discussion on
research questions of common interest to humanists, computer and information
scientists. CaSTA 2006 has received funding from the Social Science and Humanities
Research Council, Sun Microsystems of Canada, UNB’s Libraries and the Office
of the Vice-President (Research). CaSTA 2006 is the fifth in a series of
conferences sponsored by the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR)
initiative. For a conference schedule, registration date and cost, visit
http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/ or contact Susan Oliver, CaSTA 2006 program
coordinator, at 506-452-6103. - 30 -
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