[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Modelling Non-Standardized Writing

[Stefanie Dipper]

CfP: Modelling Non-Standardized Writing

Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS) to be held in Potsdam, Germany, March 12-15, 2013

Non-standardized writing can be found in various contexts: for instance, when
there are no generally established written language standards (e.g. in languages
with an emergent writing system); when existing standards are deliberately
ignored by the authors (in creative writing) or replaced by principles of
verbalization that are borrowed from oral communication (e.g. when passing notes
in a classroom); or when the norms of standard written language have not yet
been fully acquired (as in learner texts). In particular, non-standardized
writing plays an important role in research on Internet-based communication. The
language used in e-mails, online forums, chats, blogs, etc. sometimes shows
significant deviations from standard written language, while exhibiting
characteristics of oral language at the levels of lexicon, morphology, and
syntax. Well-known phenomena include nonstandard and creative spellings, ad-hoc
speedwriting, graphic emulation of prosody and emphasis, acronyms, emoticons,
and written representation of non-verbal behavior.

The systematic description of non-standardized writing and its structural and
functional analysis are key challenges not only for research on Internet-based
communication but also for data-based linguistic studies and corpus creation in
many other research areas. The goal of the workshop is to shed light on this
problem from the perspective of various research fields and to explore common
issues and possible solutions. The main focus is on non-standardized writing
phenomena in:

- genres of Internet-based communication,
- language communities with emergent literacy,
- historic varieties of German, and
- learner texts.

Contributions should address one or more of the following aspects:

- problem sketches, empirical findings, categories of analysis, and annotation
schemata on all relevant levels of linguistic analysis;
- treatment of phenomena of non-standardized writing in the compilation and
analysis of linguistic corpora;
- applications of natural language processing techniques for the treatment of
non-standardized writing (in particular for the automatic linguistic annotation
of corpora).

Submission:

Authors wishing to contribute to the workshop are invited to submit a one-page
abstract of up to 250 words (including references) by e-mail to
nonstandard at linguistics.rub.de no later than 31 July 2012. Submissions and talks
are accepted in German as well as English. Note that the talk must be given in
the same language as the abstract. Submissions are accepted in Word (.doc) or
RTF (.rtf) format. A template as well as further organizational information can
be found at http://empirikom.net/bin/view/Aktivitaeten/DgfsNonstandard.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out by e-mail by the end of August 2012.

Workshop organizers:
Michael Beißwenger, TU Dortmund
Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Stefan Evert, TU Darmstadt
Bianka Trevisan, RWTH Aachen
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