25.3765, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Computational Ling, Pragmatics, Ling Theories, Cognitive Sci/Belgium

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Subject: 25.3765, Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Computational Ling, Pragmatics, Ling Theories, Cognitive Sci/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:12:28
From: Ines Olza [iolzamor at unav.es]
Subject: Big Data and Multimodality

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Full Title: Big Data and Multimodality 

Date: 26-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Antwerp, Belgium 
Contact Person: Cristobal Pagan-Canovas
Meeting Email: cpaganc at unav.es

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Oct-2014 

Meeting Description:

''Big data and multimodality''
Panel at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference

Convenors: Cristóbal Pagán (University of Navarra), Javier Valenzuela (University of Murcia), Inés Olza (University of Navarra)

Panel Abstract:

There is nowadays a wide consensus on the need to provide linguistics with a solid empirical grounding. In this sense, the advent of electronic corpora has revolutionized linguistic practice, and has quickly become a standard tool in the discipline. In the last decades, the size of available corpora has grown exponentially, and as a result, the field is now confronted with new challenges, related to how to deal with extremely large amounts of (possibly annotated) textual material. 

At the same time, most corpora are unimodal, including only the linguistic text of communication events. In this sense, unimodal corpora fall short of the complexity of real-life communication, which is multimodal: speakers construct meaning by combining linguistic material with cues from other modalities, such as prosodic information, co-speech gestures, facial expressions, eye-gaze, or different aspects of the physical context in which the communicative act takes place. The inclusion of these multimodal aspects at a grand scale creates further challenges for corpora research: from the need to rethink the right database architecture of such corpora, to the need for new multimodal annotation schemes, new multi-layered search systems, or new user-interfaces and query systems, just to name a few. 

One example of an initiative for developing a large-scale multimodal corpus is the NewsScape Database of TV News, curated by the UCLA Library, which currently contains more than 200.000 hours of TV programs with fully-searchable time-stamped subtitles. It is currently exploited by the Red Hen Lab, an international consortium for the research of multimodal communication. The present panel will introduce the NewsScape library and some of the studies being developed by the Red Hen Lab. Additionally, the panel also welcomes contributions stemming from other multimodal databases, addressing issues such as the organization, annotation and information extraction of large-scale multimodal databases or presenting concrete studies based on these type of corpora. 

It is our firm belief that the big data approach is here to stay, and that massive multimodal databases can bring linguistics nearer to other consolidated sciences that have at their disposal a great wealth of empirical observations, such as geology or astronomy.

Call for Papers:

Submission Information:

1) The participation in IPrA Conferences presupposes that you are an IPrA member. Instructions on how to apply for / renew your membership are available here: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*HOME&n=1266 

2) Once you are an IPrA member, you will be able to submit your paper abstract on-line, using the submission module available here: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1473

3) Please note that paper proposals must be sent on-line by October 15.

Important: If you would like to present a paper in our panel, please send us your abstract by October 8 (min. 250 words and max. 500 words, not including references and data). We will then check if and how your paper fits in with the scope and objectives of the panel. Once we accept it in our panel, you will be asked to submit it on-line no later than October 15.







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