[open-science] Content-mining Fwd: FW: Call for chapters - Working with Text

Thu Dec 20 09:28:19 UTC 2012

Hi All

Just a nudge to see if anyone be interested in writing a chapter from the
working group, given we have several people with an interest in text
mining? If so, express your interest here soon as the abstract deadline is
24 December!

Jenny

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> In case we want to contribute something
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:
> JISC-REPOSITORIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Stephanie Taylor
> Sent: 06 December 2012 16:36
> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Call for chapters - Working with Text
>
> Dear all,
>
> please consider the following call for chapters; this work is part of JISC
> horizon scanning activity in the area of text mining. Please also feel free
> to pass on this call to any colleagues who might be interested but are not
> subscribed to this list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steph
>
> ----
>
> Call for chapters
> Working with text: Tools, techniques and approaches for text mining
>
> Text mining tools and technologies have a long history in the repository
> world, where they have been applied successfully for a variety of purposes.
> These vary from pragmatic aims such as enabling document search and browse
> facilities, linking related documents, identifying copies or facilitating
> the deposit process, to support tools for academic research. The latter
> category includes supporting research on the basis of a large body of
> documents, facilitating access to and reuse of existing work, and
> connecting the formal academic world with areas such as the traditional and
> social media. The JISC have funded a number of projects and initiatives in
> both areas, notably NaCTeM and the ResDis programme. Research areas as
> diverse as biology, chemistry, sociology and criminology have seen
> effective use made of text mining technologies.
>
> However, the uptake and hence the impact of these tools has been uneven.
> Several obstacles to development and deployment are frequently cited,
> including the maturity, complexity, and in some instances cost of software
> packages, as well as scarcity of relevant technical skills. Text mining
> methods and tools can be fragile and complex, requiring significant set-up
> time and effort. Projects making use of text mining may also suffer from
> legal obstacles, such as copyright and intellectual property
> considerations. The benefit to be gained from deployment of text-mining
> tools in areas such as institutional repositories or as a research tool in
> its own right may be difficult to predict without a costly pilot project.
>
> Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished chapters describing
> research in relevant areas and/or reviewing relevant literature and trends.
>
> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
>
> Discipline-specific research involving text-mining: bioinformatics,
> chemistry, the social sciences, etc.
> Techniques in text mining: sentiment analysis/subjectivity analysis,
> opinion mining, affect analysis, metaphor analysis, etc.
> Legal and ethical aspects of text mining/analysis.
> Current developments in text mining.
> Metadata extraction from document text, including formal and informal
> metadata: ontology extraction, document indexing, document classification,
> and evaluation of metadata quality.
> Text mining for document categorization or summarization.
> Text mining for information visualization Text mining over the social web:
> community detection, timelines, etc.
> Evaluation of text mining tools, open-source or commercial: case studies
> and findings.
> Procurement and evaluation of text mining tools.
>
> Submission
>
> Chapters of 4,500-9,000 words in length should be prepared in either Word
> or LaTeX. As chapters will be reformatted during the publication process,
> authors are advised to concentrate on content rather than formatting.
> Please include any images/graphics as separate files; images/graphics
> should be 300dpi or better and designed to be readable when printed in
> greyscale.
>
> Files should be submitted by email to Emma Tonkin <e.tonkin at ukoln.ac.uk>.
> All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
>
> Important Dates/Deadlines
>
> 24-Dec-2012         Title/Abstract submission for preliminary approval
> 4 -Jan-2013        Author notification
> 11-Feb-2013        Manuscript submission deadline
> 24-Feb-2013        Author notification
>
> Publisher
>
> This book is scheduled to be published in 2013 by Chandos, a leading
> international publisher with specialisms in Library Management, Information
> Management, Social Media and the Web; it will be distributed in the United
> States via the American Library Association. It will be available both as a
> printed publication and as a freely available Open Access resource,
> increasing the visibility of the final work. For additional information
> regarding the publisher, please visit
> http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/ChandosInfo.aspx.
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
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