Living texts: interdisciplinary approaches and methodological commonalities in biology and textual analysis

16 October, 08 09:30 AM - 17 October, 08 04:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=907

The strong methodological commons between the biological sciences and various fields textual analysis provided some of the earliest examples of concrete interdisciplinary collaboration between the ’hard’ sciences and humanities. The exploration and formalization of such crossovers heralded by the advent of e-science since 2001, and the emergence of robust cyberinfrastructure to support and facilitate such collaborative research, provides a new basis for exploring the interface between biology and text. This expert two-day international workshop will showcase relevant cutting-edge research from the biological and textual communities; and attempt to define a research agenda for future co-operation between them. Themes of the workshop will include:

• Application of biological cladistic analysis to stemmatic studies in textual criticism
• Application of parsing methods (linguistics) to protein folding (biology)
• Comparing ageing of organisms with concept evolution in literary text
• Comparing DNA transcription with complex textual structures
• Commonalities in the use of ontologies in biology and textual information retrieval
• Application of biological methods for dealing with very large textual corpora and text mining
• Further methodological links between the biological sciences, bioinformatics and advanced computational methods

Target Audience

This meeting is intended for Researchers working in the area of the intersection between text analysis and biological methods.

Programme

This event is provisionally scheduled to start at 09:30 Thursday 16 October 2008 and close at 16:00 on Friday 17 October 2008.

A dinner is being held in Howies Waterloo Place on the 16 October at 19:30

Accommodation

Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Important Dates

02 Jul - Registration Opens
09 Oct - Registration Deadline
09 Oct - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
16 Oct - Event Starts at 09:30hrs

Travel

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Enquiries

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