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--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)
BREAK
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)
BREAK
3:15 - 4:00 Round-Table Panel
4:00 Closing remarks