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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ansi-language:IT">Diachronic Treebanks -
Workshop at the 49th SLE meeting, Naples Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2016</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="mso-ansi-language:IT"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="mso-ansi-language:IT">Convenors</span></u><span style="mso-ansi-language:IT">: Hanne Eckhoff (<span class="">University of
Tromsø, Norway)</span>, Silvia Luraghi (Università di Pavia, Italy), Marco
Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:IT"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The workshop aims at bringing together
researchers interested in historical linguistics, who combine a solid
linguistic background with an interest for the exploitation of electronic
resources, and in particular of syntactically parsed corpora, in research on
language change. We welcome proposals addressing diachronic issues under any
type of approach and methodology, provided that they highlight the contribution
of empirical evidence retrieved from treebanks in achieving meaningful results.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Motivation and Aims</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Over the last two decades, treebanks have
become an increasingly useful instrument for data-driven study of linguistic
structures at various levels. The proliferation of treebanks has led to a very
large number of resources available for different languages, which can support
comparative research of various issues cross-linguistically. In recent years, a
growing number of treebanks has also become available for ancient languages and
for different historical stages of the same language: the York-Toronto-Helsinki
corpus (<a href="http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/YcoeHome1.htm">http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/YcoeHome1.htm</a>) and the Penn Corpora
of Historical English (<a href="https://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/">https://www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/</a>) for English,
Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank (<a href="https://nestor.uit.no">https://nestor.uit.no</a>) and RRuDi (<a href="https://www.slawistik.hu-berlin.de/de/member/meyerrol/subjekte/rrudi">https://www.slawistik.hu-berlin.de/de/member/meyerrol/subjekte/rrudi</a>)
for Russian, PROIEL (<a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/proiel/">http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/proiel/</a>)
for various ancient Indo-European languages and recently extended to host
treebanks for medieval stages of Romance and Germanic languages, Perseus Latin
and Ancient Greek Dependency Treebanks (<a href="http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/">http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/</a>)
for Latin and Ancient Greek, the Index Thomisticus Treebank (<a href="http://itreebank.marginalia.it"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">http://itreebank.marginalia.it</span></a>) for Latin,
and several others. This allows data extraction aimed to assessing the scope
and the effects of diachronic developments, managing a large amount of data and
retrieving information whose relevance can then be evaluated through statistical
methods. Possible issues that can be tackled through diachronic treebanks are
potentially numerous and of different nature, and include increasing or
decreasing productivity of syntactic or morphological constructions, and, most
interesting, interrelationships between different changes that have previously been
considered unrelated or whose interrelation is otherwise hard to prove. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Possible topics include (but are not
limited to):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- historical developments of constructions
as evidenced by data extracted from diachronic treebanks;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- suitability of different types of treebanks
(constituent-based vs. dependency-based) for research on specific diachronic
changes;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- correlations between developments in
different areas of a language’s grammar;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- similarities and differences between
parallel developments of similar changes in different languages;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- how evidence from already known and
documented diachronic change can give input for annotation;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- how semantic and/or pragmatic information
can be supplied in order to better understand the rationale of changes
highlighted by data extracted from treebanks;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- specific issues raised by the development
of diachronic treebanks;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- methods and tools to build and access
diachronic treebanks;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- issues in data selection for representativeness
purposes;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- issues pertaining to scarce and
non-standardised data</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Call for papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We invite you to submit abstracts up to 300
words (references not included) describing original, unpublished research
related to the topics of the workshop. Abstracts should be in an editable
format (e.g. .doc or .docx; no pdf will be considered), and should be sent to
all workshop organizers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:hanne.m.eckhoff@uit.no">hanne.m.eckhoff@uit.no</a></span></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:silvia.luraghi@unipv.it">silvia.luraghi@unipv.it</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:marco.passarotti@unicatt.it">marco.passarotti@unicatt.it</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The deadline for the submission of the short
abstract is November 15, 2015. Abstracts will be evaluated by the convenors,
and selected abstracts will accompany the workshop proposal. We will notify you
of inclusion in the workshop proposal when we submit it on Nov. 25th. <br>
Note that if the workshop has been accepted, you will also have to prepare a
full abstract and submit it to be reviewed by the SLE scientific committee. The
deadline for the submission of full abstracts is January 15, 2016. For further
information, please refer to the SLE meeting webpage at <a href="http://sle2016.eu/call-for-papers">http://sle2016.eu/call-for-papers</a></span></p>
<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Silvia Luraghi<br>Università di Pavia<br>Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata<br>Strada Nuova 65<br>I-27100 Pavia<br>tel.: +39/0382/984685<div style="display:inline"></div><div>Web page personale: <a href="http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68" target="_blank">http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68</a></div></div>
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