ICAL13: 13th International Conference on Armenian Linguistics

This regular event is designed to enable specialists in the field to share their unpublished, recent or ongoing work, and to foster potential collaborations. 

The ‘Digital Armenian’ thematic session

A poster session (1 hour), combined with two round-table discussions (2 × 1 hour), will highlight recent advances in the automatic processing of Armenian, in computer vision applied to cultural heritage, and in the digitisation, structuring and dissemination of linguistic and cultural data. This session will welcome contributions relating to ongoing projects, interim or final results in the field of digital humanities for the Armenian language: the creation of databases, the development of online corpora, annotation tools, methods for the extraction, analysis and promotion of heritage documents, etc. Representative applications include the automatic recognition of Armenian manuscripts, the computer-assisted transcription and lemmatisation of ancient or dialectal texts, the indexing and segmentation of audiovisual archives, 3D reconstruction of monuments, the detection of epigraphic and ornamental motifs, and the creation of collaborative platforms for lexical and dialectological exploration.

Guest speakers

Charles de Lamberterie and Hratch Martirosyan will deliver two lectures linked to thescientific legacy of Hratchia Adjarian, born in 1876 in Constantinople, a doctorate holder from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) and a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, which bears his name.

Organising Committee

1. Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

2. Victoria Khurshudyan, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

3. Chahan Vidal-Gorene, École nationale des chartes, PSL, Calfa

4. Samuel Chakmakjian, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD/ERTIM

 Scientific Committee

1. Bernard Coulie, UCLouvain

2. Peter Cowe, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

3. Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

4. Victor Katvalian, Institute of Language, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

5. Victoria Khurshudyan, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

6. Petr Kocharov, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg

7. Daniel Kölligan, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg

8. Charles de Lamberterie, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

9. Hratch Martirosyan, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

10. Robin Meyer, University of Lausanne

11. Vladimir Plungian, Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language

12. Pollet Samvelian, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CNRS, Lattice

13. Andrea Scala, University of Milan

14. Chahan Vidal-Gorène, École nationale des chartes, PSL, CALFA