grafematik2020: /gʁafematik/ 2020 — Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century Paris, France, June 17-19, 2020 |
Conference website | https://grafematik2020.sciencesconf.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grafematik2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 13, 2020 |
Submission deadline | January 13, 2020 |
/gʁafematik/ is a biennial conference bringing together disciplines concerned with writing systems and their representation in written communication. The conference aims to reflect on the current state of research in the area, and on the role that writing and writing systems play in neighboring disciplines like computer science and information technology, communication, typography, psychology, and pedagogy. In particular it aims to study the effect of the growing importance of Unicode with regard to the future of reading and writing in human societies. Reflecting the richness of perspectives on writing systems, /grafematik/ is actively interdisciplinary, and welcomes proposals from researchers from the fields of computer science and information technology, linguistics, communication, pedagogy, psychology, history, and the social sciences.
/gʁafematik/ aims to create a space for the discussion of the range of approaches to writing systems, and specifically to bridge approaches in linguistics, informatics, and other fields. It will provide a forum for explorations in terminology, methodology, and theoretical approaches relating to the delineation of an emerging interdisciplinary area of research that intersects with intense activity in practical implementations of writing systems.
The first edition of /gʁafematik/ was held in Brest, France, on June 14-15, 2018.
Main Topics
- Epistemology of graphemics: history, onomastics, topics, interaction with other disciplines
- Foundations of graphemics
- History and typology of writing systems, comparative graphemics
- Semiotics of writing and of writing systems
- Computational/formal graphemics
- Graphemic theory of Unicode encoding
- Grapholinguistics, in particular: graphemics vs. phonology
- Orthographic reforms, theory and practice
- Graphemics and multiliteracy
- Sinographemics
- Typographemics and interaction of typography and graphemics
- Texting, latinization, new forms of written language
- ASCII art, emoticons and other pictorial uses of graphemes
- The future of writing, of writing systems and styles
- Graphemics and font technologies
- Graphemics in steganography and computer security (phishing, typosquatting, etc.)
- Graphemics in media and communication / Aesthetics of writing in the digital era
- Graphemics in experimental psychology and cognitive sciences
- Teaching graphemics, the five Ws and one H
- Applications of graphemics in natural language processing and text mining
- Applications of graphemics in optical character recognition and information technologies
Program Committee
- Gabriel Altmann, formerly at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg, Germany
- Vlad Atanasiu, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
- Kristian Berg, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
- Peter Bilak, Typothèque, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Florian Coulmas, Universität Duisburg, Germany
- Jacques David, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Mark Davis, Unicode Consortium & Google Inc., Switzerland
- Joseph Dichy, Univeristé Lumière Lyon 2, France
- Christa Dürscheid, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
- Martin Dürst, Aoyama Gakuin University & W3C, Sagamihara, Japan
- Caroline Fontaine, IMT Atlantique & CNRS Lab-STICC, Brest, France
- Claude Gruaz, formerly at CNRS, Rouen, France
- Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique & CNRS Lab-STICC, Brest, France
- Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Dejan Ivković, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Jean-Pierre Jaffré, formerly at Université Paris 5, France
- Terry Joyce, Tama University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
- George Kiraz, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
- Marc W. Küster, Office de traduction de l'Union européenne, Luxembourg
- Gerry Leonidas, University of Reading, United Kingdom
- Kamal Mansour, Monotype Imaging, Los Altos, California, USA
- Klimis Mastoridis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
- Dimitrios Meletis, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
- Tomi S. Melka, formerly at Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Panchanan Mohanty, University of Hyderabad, India
- Lisa Moore, Unicode Consortium, USA
- Shigeki Moro, Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan
- Jean-Christophe Pellat, Université de Strasbourg, France
- Miquel Peyró, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Claude Puech, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, France
- François Rastier, formerly at CNRS, Paris, France
- Cornelia Schindelin, Universität Mainz, Allemagne
- Virach Sornlertlamvanich, SIIT, Thammasat University, Phatum Thani, Thailand
- Richard Sproat, Google, New York, USA
- Susanne Wehde, MRC Managing Research GmbH, München, Germany
- Kenneth Whistler, Unicode Consortium, Berkeley, California, USA
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: January 13, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2020
- Conference: June 17-19, 2020
We invite you to submit original contributions in the form of extended abstracts (not exceeding 1,000 words), written in English and anonymized. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.
To submit please use the EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grafematik2020
For more information on the conference please visit https://grafematik2020.sciencesconf.org and follow https://twitter.com/grafematik2020 or contact grafematik2020@sciencesconf.org