Diachronic Corpora and Language Change Workshop at ICHL21

[Miriam Bouzouita]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to inform you that the submission deadline for abstracts 
for the Diachronic Corpora and Language Change workshop, organised as 
part of the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL21), 
has been extended to the *1st of March*.

Abstracts of two pages can be submitted through the EasyChair website:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21

We expect to send notifications by the 1st of April, 2013.

Best wishes,
Miriam Bouzouita


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Full Title of Workshop: Diachronic Corpora and Language Change

Date: 05-Aug-2013
Location: Oslo, Norway
Contact Person: Thorhallur Eythorsson
Meeting Email: tolli at hi.is
Web Site:
http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/events/ichl2013/workshops/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-March-2013

Meeting Description:
At the 21st International Conference of Historical Linguistics (ICHL21),
Oslo, there will be a full-day workshop entitled Diachronic Corpora and
Language Change.

There are currently several large-scale databases of historical texts
being developed, aiming at a linguistic analysis of a great variety of
text corpora. These databases are annotated for linguistic information
(primarily morphology and syntax) and provide unique resources for
eResearch into older languages. A number of the projects form a network
of partner projects, with well-established ties which are being
consolidated further in within the Diachronic Syntax Corpora
(DiaSynCorp) network (T. Eythórsson, PI).

The databases that have been developed in these projects enable an
integrated search involving different factors from several modules.
Typically, they are searchable in terms of syntax and morphology, but
the PROIEL project in Oslo (and its sister project ISWOC) includes
information structure as well. Outside the PROIEL project there are
other groups interested in using the paralllel corpora provided by Bible
translations, such as the Biblia Medieval.

The workshop has the following three objectives:
- First, to enhance cross-linguistic research in syntax and information
structure with respect to discourse-status annotation (as in PROIEL).
- Second, to explore further the development of parallel corpora of
selected texts from a variety of (old and modern) languages for machine
translation, parser adaptation, and other uses. Special emphasis will be
placed on parallel bible texts, given the fact that these are an
excellent data source for historical linguists.
- Third, to investigate specific linguistic phenomena in a
crosslinguistic comparison by means of parallel corpora. These
linguistic phenomena involve primarily syntax (word order and phrase
structure) and information structure, but also other aspects of grammar
(e.g. morphology, prosody).

The workshop will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts:
- A keynote presentation
- A main section with talks resulting from an open call
- An open discussion about future developments in historical-comparative
linguistics from the perspective of view of eResearch methodology and
analysis

Call for Papers:
The focus of this workshop is on eResearch methodology and analysis in
historical-comparative linguistics. We invite the submission of papers
by researchers with a mix of competences in linguistics and relevant
computational linguistics and IT infrastructure development.

The research topics to be treated in the workshop include the following
points in historical linguistic analysis:
- Studies of diachronic phenomena in syntax and semantics/pragmatics
based on annotated corpora, providing replicable research using
up-to-date statistical methods
- Comparative linguistics by means of parallel corpora, for example
bible texts
- Development of diachronic corpora and corpora of historical languages,
including questions of annotation
- The possibilities of integrated search in diachronic corpora
(morphology, syntax, pragmatics; phonology, prosody, meter)
- Methodological studies - how can corpus linguistics contribute to
diachronic linguistics?
- Ways to make sophisticated diachronic corpora available to
philologists and researchers in related fields.

We invite two-page abstracts (plus a third page for references) for the
first version (pdf-format). Submissions should include: title;
author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author’s email address. Please
mark your submission with the abbreviation ‘DiaCorpChange’.

Abstracts should be submitted via our EasyChair page:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl21

If you have problems using EasyChair, please contact us at
ichl-oslo at ifikk.uio.no.

The deadline for submissions to ICHL is 1 March 2013. We expect to
send notifications by 1 April 2013.

Organizing Committee:
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg
Miriam Bouzouita, Ghent University/Cambridge University
Andrés Enrique-Arias, University of the Balearic Islands
Thórhallur Eythórsson, University of Iceland, contact person
Dag Haug, University of Oslo
Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland


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