CaSTA 2005: The Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis will be at the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) this year. The conference will last for five days with one day each dedicated to technology and tools for linguistics, anthropology, digital editing, information science, and slavic studies.

The price is dirt cheap. $50 for the conference and $70 per workshop/day. If you want to attend for just a single day, they only charge for a day but let you go to the other conference events on that day as well.

I am hoping to clear my calendar to go to either the linguistics workshop on XML corpus construction or the information science workshop. See the program for details.

Tim Bray, co-inventor XML will be there and give a talk about the future of the Internet.