[Corpora-List] Final call for papers: Beyond semantics -- corpus-based investigations

[Heike Zinsmeister]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

"Beyond semantics: Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and
discourse phenomena"
http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/

Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German
Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Goettingen, Germany, February
23-25, 2011

Call deadline: 08-August-2010
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In recent years, focus of corpus-based research has moved from
morpho-syntactic phenomena to semantics (e.g. word sense
disambiguation, frame semantics, predicate-argument structure,
temporal structure) and "beyond", i.e., to pragmatic and
discourse-related phenomena (e.g. anaphora, information structure). In
the latter field, it is often especially hard to transfer results from
theoretical linguistics that are based on toy examples to
naturally-occurring texts. Even provided explicit annotation
guidelines, it is often difficult to annotate texts reliably.

We would like to bring together theoretical linguists who use texts
and corpora for pragmatic or discourse-related research questions, and
corpus linguists as well as computational linguists who create and
annotate relevant corpus resources, or exploit them. The goal of the
workshop is to enhance exchange between researchers of both fields,
and thus to gain insight in the -- possibly common -- properties and
peculiarities of the "beyond" phenomena.

We invite contributions related (but not limited) to one of the
following phenomena:
- anaphora
- discourse structure
- information structure
- implicatures and presuppositions
- event structure

Questions that we would like to address include:
- Which results from theoretical linguistics (e.g. frameworks,
generalizations) have been tried to apply to (running) texts? What
were the outcomes? Did these outcomes affect the theory?
- In annotating texts, which methods are applied? For instance, are
there linguistic tests that guide the annotators? Which tools are
used?
- Which generalizations can be derived from existing resources? Which
applications make use of existing resources?
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* Submission *

For submission details please consult the workshop webpage:
http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/

* Important dates *

August 8, 2010:    Deadline for paper submissions
September 9, 2010: Notification of acceptance
December 1, 2010:  Camera-ready papers for the workshop proceedings
plus a one-page abstract for the DGfS conference proceedings
February 23-25, 2011: Workshop
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* Keynote speakers *

Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh

* Workshop organizers *

Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Heike Zinsmeister, University of Konstanz

* Programme committee *

Maria Averintseva-Klisch, Tuebingen University
Matthias Buch-Kromann, Copenhagen Business School
Philippa Cook, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Markus Egg, Humbold-Universitaet Berlin
Anke Holler, University of Goettingen
Graham Katz, Georgetown University
Ralf Klabunde, Ruhr-University Bochum
Valia Kordoni, DFKI GmbH and Saarland University
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Saarland University
Katja Markert, University of Leeds
Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen
Marta Recasens, University of Barcelona
Arndt Riester, University of Stuttgart
Julia Ritz, University of Potsdam
Antje Rossdeutscher, University of Stuttgart
Bjoern Rothstein, Ruhr-University Bochum
Josef Ruppenhofer, Saarland University
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam
Yannick Versley, Tuebingen University
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh

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For any questions contact: beyondsem at linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister (workshop organizers)

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