October 3, 2006
UNB Fredericton News Release: D732
Natalie Montgomery, Communication Officer (506) 453-4990

Five internationally known and highly regarded researchers in the area of text analysis will highlight the 2006 Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) being held at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton from Oct. 11 to 15. Entitled Breadth of Text, the conference will bring together computer scientists and humanities computing researchers who will share their work on the central issues driving current scholarly research on the linguistic, visual, and aural manifestations of text.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by William Y. Arms, computer science at Cornell University; Willard McCarty, reader in humanities computing at King's College in London, UK; Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of media studies at the University of Virginia; Ian Munro, professor of computer science and Canada Research Chair in algorithm design at the University of Waterloo; and Peter Shillingsburg, professor of English at De Montfort University, UK.

Conference attendees will also take part in pre-conference workshops, presentations based on peer reviewed papers, and a closing discussion on research questions of common interest to humanists, computer and information scientists.

CaSTA 2006 has received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Sun Microsystems of Canada, UNB’s Libraries and the Office of the Vice-President (Research). CaSTA 2006 is the fifth in a series of conferences sponsored by the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) initiative.

For a conference schedule, registration date and cost, visit http://www.lib.unb.ca/casta2006/ or contact Susan Oliver, CaSTA 2006 program coordinator, at 506-452-6103.

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