Second CALL FOR PAPERS

G21C Grapholinguistics in the 21st century—From graphemes to knowledge

https://grafematik2020.sciencesconf.org
June 17-18-19, 2020
Paris, France
Contact: Yannis Haralambous
grafematik2020@sciencesconf.org or grafematik2020@easychair.org

G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century) is a biennial conference bringing together disciplines concerned with grapholinguistics and more generally the study 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, G21C 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.

G21C 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 G21C was held in Brest, France, on June 14-15, 2018. All presentations have been recorded and can be watched on http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/grafematik/

Keynote speakers

Jessica Coon, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada: “The Linguistics of Arrival: What an alien writing system can teach us about human language”

Martin Neef, Professor, Institut für Germanistik, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany: “What is it that ends with a full stop?”

Main topics of interest

We welcome original proposals from all disciplines concerned with the study of written language, writing systems, and their implementation in information systems. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to:

Epistemology of grapholinguistics: history, onomastics, topics, interaction with other disciplines
Foundations of grapholinguistics, graphemics and graphetics
History and typology of writing systems, comparative graphemics/graphetics
Semiotics of writing and of writing systems
Computational/formal graphemics/graphetics
Grapholinguistic theory of Unicode encoding
Orthographic reforms, theory and practice
Graphemics/graphetics and multiliteracy
Writing and Art / Writing in Art
Sinographemics
Typographemics, typographetics
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/graphetics and font technologies
Graphemics/graphetics in steganography and computer security (phishing, typosquatting, etc.)
Graphemics/graphetics in art, media and communication / Aesthetics of writing in the digital era
Graphemics/graphetics in experimental psychology and cognitive sciences
Teaching graphemics/graphetics, the five Ws and one H
Grapholinguistic applications in natural language processing and text mining
Grapholinguistic applications 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, Université 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
Keisuke Honda, Imperial College London and University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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
James Myers, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Panchanan Mohanty, University of Hyderabad, India
Lisa Moore, Unicode Consortium, USA
Shigeki Moro, Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan
J.R. Osborn, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
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, Germany
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, SIIT, Thammasat University, Phatum Thani, Thailand
Jürgen Spitzmüller, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Susanne Wehde, MRC Managing Research GmbH, München, Germany
Kenneth Whistler, Unicode Consortium, Berkeley, California, USA

• 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, this constraint applying to the main text and not to references), 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

The Proceedings of the 2018 Edition of the conference have been published by Fluxus Editions:
http://www.fluxus-editions.fr/gla1.php

Yannis HARALAMBOUS
Professor
Computer Science Department