21.1831, Calls: Computational Ling, Lang Documentation/Germany

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Subject: 21.1831, Calls: Computational Ling, Lang Documentation/Germany

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Date: 14-Apr-2010
From: Sebastian Nordhoff < sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de >
Subject: Electronic Grammaticography
 

	
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:46:25
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de]
Subject: Electronic Grammaticography

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Full Title: Electronic Grammaticography 

Date: 11-Feb-2011 - 12-Feb-2011
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Sebastian Nordhoff
Meeting Email: sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de
Web Site: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2011 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

This meeting wants to bring together field linguists, computer scientists,and 
publishers with the aim of exploring production and dissemination of 
grammatical descriptions in electronic/hypertextual format 

Call for Papers

Place: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany) 

For long a step-child of lexicography, the domain of grammaticography has
received growing interest in the recent past, especially in what concerns lesser
studied languages. At least three volumes contain parts dealing with this
question (Ameka et al. 2006, Gippert et al. 2006, Payne & Weber 2007).

At the same time, advances in information technology mean that a number of
techniques become available which can present linguistic information in novel
ways. This holds true for multimedial content on the one hand (see e.g. Barwick
& Thieberger 2007), but also so called content-management-systems (CMS) provide
new possibilities to develop, structure and maintain linguistic information,
which were unknown when the idea of an electronic grammar was first put to print
in Zaefferer (1998). 

Recent publications in grammaticography often allude to the possibilities of
hypertext grammars (Weber 2006, Evans & Dench 2006), but these possibilities are
only starting to get explored theoretically (Good 2004, Nordhoff 2008) and in
practice (Nordhoff 2007).

This conference will bring together experts on grammar writing and information
technology to discuss the theoretical and practical advantages hypertext
grammars can offer. We invite papers dealing with the arts and crafts of grammar
writing in a wide sense, preferably with an eye on electronic publishing. Topics
of interest are: 

-general formal properties of all grammatical descriptions (GDs) in general, and
hypertext GDs in particular 

-functional requirements for GDs and the responses of the traditional and the
hypertext approach (cf. Nordhoff 2008) 

-discussion or presentation of implementations dealing with the media 
transition from book to electronic publication 

-opportunities and risks of hypertext grammars 

-integration with fieldwork or typological work 

-treatment of a particular linguistic subfield (phonology, syntax, ...) within 
a hypertext description 

Invited Speakers
Nick Evans (Australian National University)
Christian Lehmann (Universität Erfurt)
Jeff Good (University of Buffalo)

Submission of Abstracts
(a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing possible 
tables and references 
(b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the text of 
the abstract but not the author's name or affiliation. The e-mail message to 
which it is attached should list the title, the author's name, and the author's 
affiliation. Please send the message to the following address:  
sebastian_nordhoffeva.mpg.de
(c) Deadline: 
The abstracts should reach us by FRIDAY, October 01.
Submitters will be notified by MONDAY, November 01. 

References
Ameka, F. K., A. Dench & N. Evans (eds.) (2006). Catching language -- The
Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Barwick, L. & N. Thieberger (eds.) (2006). Sustainable data from digital 
fieldwork. Sydney: University of Sydney. 

Gippert, J., N. Himmelmann & U. Mosel (eds.) (2006). Essentials of language
documentation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Good, J. (2004). "The descriptive grammar as a (meta)database". Paper 
presented at the EMELD Language Digitization Project Conference 2004. [paper]

Nordhoff, S. (2007). "Grammar writing in the Electronic Age". Paper presented at
the ALT VII conference in Paris. 

Nordhoff, S. (2008). "Electronic reference grammars for typology -- challenges
and solutions". Journal for Language Documentation and Conservation, 2(2):296-324. 

Payne, T. E. & D. Weber (eds.) (2007). Perspectives on grammar writing. 
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Zaefferer, D. (ed.) (1998). Deskriptive Grammatik und allgemeiner 
Sprachvergleich. Tübingen: Niemeyer.





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