26.2980, Calls: Computational Ling, Genetic Classification, Historical Ling, Typology/Netherlands

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Subject: 26.2980, Calls: Computational Ling, Genetic Classification, Historical Ling, Typology/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:39:54
From: Harald Hammarström [harald at bombo.se]
Subject: Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics

 
Full Title: Workshop on Capturing Phylogenetic Algorithms for Linguistics 
Short Title: CPAL2015 

Date: 26-Oct-2015 - 30-Oct-2015
Location: Leiden, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Harald Hammarström
Meeting Email: harald.hammarstroem at mpi.nl
Web Site: http://lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2015/767/info.php3?wsid=767&venue=Oort 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

The past decade has seen an explosion in the availability of large datasets of
both structural and lexical linguistic data (e.g., Greenhill et al. 2008,
Moran et al 2014, Dryer & Haspelmath 2013,Wichmann et al. 2013).  These data
can be profitably exploited computationally to explore linguistic history and
linguistic universals. Work in Bioinformatics has addressed parallel sets of
questions for data on living species and a large array of computational
modeling and techniques have been developed towards this goal (Felsenstein
2004). The workshop aims to bring together linguists, biologists and
mathematicians to make theoretical and empirical progress in the area of
computational modeling of linguistic data for historical and general
linguistic inferences.


Call for Papers:

The workshop aims to bring together linguists, biologists and mathematicians to make progress on the following topics:

- Modeling of Linguistic Data: 
What are theoretically or empirically the characteristics of linguistic data? Are there bounded rates of change? What are the limits and expectancy of borrowing? Are there universal tendencies manifest in linguistic data? (cf. Sankoff 1973, Field 1998, Blust 2000, Dediu & Cysouw 2013).

- Algorithms for Inferences on Linguistic Data:
A rich set of questions whose input is linguistic data and output is a model with specifics inferred from the input data (cf. Arapov & Xerts 1974, Embleton 1986), e.g., a subclassification tree (cf. François 2014), a scenario of linguistic diffusion (cf. Chang & Michael 2014), a historical sequence of events (cf. Bouckaert et al 2012), a model of a cognitive domain (cf. Dunn et al 2011a), a geographical division (cf. Wichmann et al 2010, Muysken et al 2015, Prokic & Cysouw 2013) and so on. Both descriptions of novel algorithms to solve such problems and improved algorithms (including approximation algorithms) to solve extant problems are solicited.

- Case studies of Specific Families/Regions:
Case studies of computational work addressing a specific language family, region or linguistic subdomain with a comparison to the state-of-the-art of non-computational work addressing the same question(s) (cf. Dunn et al 2011a, Cysouw & Forker 2009, Huffman 1998).

- Synergies between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Data:
Computational models exploiting linguistic and non-linguistic data (e.g., archaeological, genetic, ethnographic) tied to the same people/domain to reveal interpretable symmetries and/or discrepancies (cf. Walker et al 2012, Jordan & Huber 2013).

Plenary Speakers (confirmed):

- Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich)
- John Huelsenbeck (University of California at Berkeley)
- Quentin Atkinson (University of Auckland)
- Claire Bowern (Yale University)
- Dan Dediu (MPI Nijmegen)
- Fiona Jordan (University of Bristol)
- Francesca Tria (ISI Foundation)
- Remco Bouckaert (University of Auckland)
- Steven Kelk (Maastricht University)

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute presentations. The desired length for abstracts is 2 pages of text (plus any amount of pages of references or data tables). Abstracts should be submitted as per instructions on the conference webpage by September 1, 2015.

Important Dates:

- September 1, 2015: Deadline for Submission of Abstracts
- September 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
- October 26-30, 2015: Workshop

The organisers foresee the publication of a proceedings as a special issue of a suitable journal or as a thematic volume with a suitable publisher.

Organisers:

- Harald Hammarström (MPI Nijmegen)
- Marian Klamer (Leiden U)
- Andrew Meade (U College London)
- Devdatt Dubhashi (Chalmers U)
- Gerhard Jäger (Tübingen U)
- Russell Gray (U of Auckland and MPISSH, Jena)




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