26.77, Calls: Computational Ling, Ling & Lit, General Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Subject: 26.77, Calls: Computational Ling, Ling & Lit, General Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:28:31
From: Anna Kazantseva [ankazant at eecs.uottawa.ca]
Subject: 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature

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Full Title: 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature 
Short Title: CLfL 

Date: 04-Jun-2015 - 04-Jun-2015
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA 
Contact Person: Anna Kazantseva
Meeting Email: clfl2015 at googlegroups.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 04-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

The series of CLfL workshops is designed to bring together NLP researchers interested in working with literary data – prose and poetry – in any human language. This is a friendly forum to discuss ideas, bring up problems and chart new directions.

Literature differs, often quite dramatically, from modern expository texts, much more common in large corpora. It presents unique challenges. A few examples: readers of literature have different objectives (information need is seldom a concern); literary prose usually has little formal structure (there are, say, few overt discourse markers); poetry, on the other hand, is often all about structure (such that parsers routinely ignore); and so on, and so forth.

Call for Papers:

The 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature at NAACL HLT 2015 invites original unpublished submissions on topics relevant to literature.

We will welcome particularly warmly papers which propose new language processing methods designed with literature in mind. To be sure, we will also gladly consider papers on applying existing NLP tools and techniques to literary data. Here are the most plausible topics, but sure enough more is possible (you tell us -:):

- The readers’ needs and their mapping onto NLP tasks
- Search for literary work, and useful recommendation systems for literature
- Identification and analysis of literary genres
- Literature versus other types of writing from the viewpoint of computational analyses
- Profiling and authorship attribution
- Computational modeling of narratives, computational narratology, computational folkloristics
- Discourse structure in literature
- Summarization of literature
- Emotion analysis for literature
- Building and analyzing social networks of characters
- Generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry

We will consider regular papers which describe experimental methods or theoretical work, and we will gladly welcome position papers. The NLP community does not study literature often enough, so it is important to discuss and formulate the problems before proposing solutions.

If you are one the people enthusiastic about automated processing of literary texts, by all means contribute to the Fourth Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, co-located with NAACL HLT 2015, to be held in Denver on June 4. Papers are due by March 4.

Nearly everything you need to know now about the workshop appears on its Web site. Go straight to https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2015/call-for-papers for a list of tantalizing topics of interest -- suggest your *relevant other* topic if we missed it.

To whet your appetite, here is a selection of things discussed at the past workshops: stylistic segmentation of poetry; style, sentiment and imagery in contemporary poetry; social network analysis of ''Alice in Wonderland''; learning to extract quotable phrases; recognition of classical Arabic poems; a syntactic investigation of chick lit and literature; clustering voices in ''The Waste Land''; parsing screenplays for extracting social networks from movies; structure-based clustering of novels; generating music from literature. How's that for variety?

Anna, Anna, Stan & Corina
clfl2015 at googlegroups.com
https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2015/

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