[Corpora-List] Workshop on Formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles, Hamburg (Germany), 4-8 August 2008

[Hans-Christian Schmitz]

Apologise for multiple posting

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Formal and experimental approaches to discourse particles and modal adverbs
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb10/schmitz/esslli2008/
August 4–8, 2008

organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and 
Information ESSLLI 2008 (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/), 4–15 
August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany

Workshop Organisers:
Hans-Christian Schmitz, schmitz at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Henk Zeevat, henk.zeevat at uva.nl

The workshop is organised in cooperation with the SIG Dialogue Systems 
of the Gesellschaft für Linguististische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV, 
http://www.gldv.org).

Workshop Purpose and Topics:

Discourse particles and modal adverbs form a borderline case between 
semantics and pragmatics and so can be the source of new insights in 
these areas. The use of particles has been connected with discourse 
relations and other coherence relations, the relation between semantic 
content and discourse context, especially the mutual knowledge and the 
common discourse goals of the discourse participants, with expression of 
speaker beliefs, desires and intentions and with the control of 
interpretations that go beyond semantic content, i.e. explicatures and 
implicatures. And, last but not least, particles and modal adverbs can 
contribute to expressive and other non-truth-conditional aspects of 
meaning. From the perspective of computational linguistics, these words 
are a promise, because it would seem that their treatment would help NLP 
systems to get a better grasp on the intentions of the user in 
interpretation and to achieve natural and comprehensible output in 
generation.  However, they are also a challenge, because their analysis 
seems to involve concepts beyond current levels of sophistication.
The workshop proposes to collect contributions to the formal description 
and implementation of discourse particles and modal adverbs.   This 
third edition of workshop will in addition have a focus on the 
experimental investigation of the use and interpretation of discourse 
particles and modal adverbs, with a special view to the validation of 
formal and computational approaches.

The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers (including advanced 
PhD students) to present and discuss their work with colleagues and 
researchers who work in the broad subject of the disciplines relevant 
for particles and modal adverbs, as represented in ESSLLI.

Submission details:
Authors are invited to submit an anonymous, extended abstract. 
Submissions should not exceed 2 pages, including references + a separate 
ID page with the authors’ names, affiliations and email-addresses. 
Submissions should be in PDF format. Please send your submission 
electronically to both workshop organisers by the deadline listed below. 
The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee.

Workshop format:
The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. 
It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive 
days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper 
presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop 
organisers will give an introduction to the topic.

Invited Speakers:
Christopher Potts, Amherst/ Mass.
Robyn Carston, UCL

Workshop Programme Committee:
Laura Alonso i Alemany, University of Córdoba, Argentina
Peter Bosch, University of Osnabrück
Regine Eckardt, University of Göttingen
Bart Geurts, University of Nijmegen
Rick Nouwen, University of Utrecht
Antje Rossdeutscher, University of Stuttgart
Hans-Christian Schmitz, University of Frankfurt
Bernhard Schröder, University of Duisburg-Essen
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam
Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam
Thomas Ede Zimmermann, University of Frankfurt

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: March 8, 2008
Notification: April 21, 2008
Preliminary programme: April 24, 2008
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2008
Final papers for proceedings: May 17, 2008
Final programme: June 21, 2008
Workshop dates: August 4–8, 2008

Local Arrangements: All workshop participants including the presenters 
will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for 
authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop 
speaker registration fee. There will be no reimbursement for travel 
costs and accommodation.

Further Information:
About the workshop: http:////www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb10/schmitz/esslli2008/
About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/

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