SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>"Beyond semantics: Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse phenomena"<br><a href="http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/">http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/</a><br>
<br>Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Goettingen, Germany, February 23-25, 2011<br><br>Call deadline: 08-August-2010<br>************************************************************<br>
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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>We invite contributions related (but not limited) to one of the following phenomena:<br>- anaphora<br>- discourse structure<br>- information structure<br>- implicatures and presuppositions<br>- event structure<br><br>
Questions that we would like to address include:<br>- 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?<br>
- In annotating texts, which methods are applied? For instance, are there linguistic tests that guide the annotators? Which tools are used?<br>- Which generalizations can be derived from existing resources? Which applications make use of existing resources?<br>
*********************************************************************<br>* Submission *<br><br>For submission details please consult the workshop webpage:<br><a href="http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/">http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/</a><br>
<br>* Important dates *<br><br>August 8, 2010: Deadline for paper submissions<br>September 9, 2010: Notification of acceptance<br>December 1, 2010: Camera-ready papers for the workshop proceedings plus a one-page abstract for the DGfS conference proceedings<br>
February 23-25, 2011: Workshop<br>*********************************************************************<br>* Keynote speakers *<br><br>Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University <br>Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh<br>
<br>* Workshop organizers *<br><br>Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-University of Bochum<br>Heike Zinsmeister, University of Konstanz<br><br>* Programme committee * <br><br>Maria Averintseva-Klisch, Tuebingen University<br>Matthias Buch-Kromann, Copenhagen Business School<br>
Philippa Cook, Freie Universitaet Berlin<br>Markus Egg, Humbold-Universitaet Berlin<br>Anke Holler, University of Goettingen<br>Graham Katz, Georgetown University<br>Ralf Klabunde, Ruhr-University Bochum<br>Valia Kordoni, DFKI GmbH and Saarland University<br>
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Saarland University<br>Katja Markert, University of Leeds<br>Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen<br>Marta Recasens, University of Barcelona<br>Arndt Riester, University of Stuttgart<br>Julia Ritz, University of Potsdam<br>
Antje Rossdeutscher, University of Stuttgart<br>Bjoern Rothstein, Ruhr-University Bochum<br>Josef Ruppenhofer, Saarland University<br>David Schlangen, University of Potsdam<br>Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University<br>Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam<br>
Yannick Versley, Tuebingen University<br>Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh <br><br>*********************************************************************<br>For any questions contact : <a href="mailto:beyondsem@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de">beyondsem@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de</a><br>
<br>Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister (workshop organizers)<br>