27.3114, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Ling Theories, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 27.3114, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Ling Theories, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:02:12
From: Katja Suckow [katja.suckow at phil.uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Information Structuring in Discourse

 
Full Title: Information Structuring in Discourse 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Katja Suckow
Meeting Email: katja.suckow at phil.uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: http://dgfs2017.uni-saarland.de/wordpress/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

This working session is part of the DGfS 2017 meeting in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Although the need to model the relation between linguistic features of
utterances and discourse structure is commonly acknowledged (cf. [2],[1],[3],
among others), there is still much debate about what ought to be the
appropriate level of analysis of discourse segmentation and what the criteria
to identify units of discourse structure are. In previous research, it has
been suggested that discourse structure might be defined either in terms of
communicative intention, attention, topic structure, speech acts, coherence
relations, cohesive devices, or others. Related to this, it is still under
discussion whether intonational phrases, syntactic clauses or semantic
events/propositions form appropriate building blocks for recognizing units of
discourse structure. In addition, there is no consensus whether discourse
segments can be recursively embedded or not. On the other hand, discourse
units have also been utilized to explain processing preferences observed in
different empirical domains such as anaphora resolution, clause combining,
grounding, etc. These issues are of interest from a theoretical as well as a
processing perspective.

The aim of this working section is to bring together researchers from the
broad field of discourse segmentation to discuss information structuring
during discourse processing. We particularly welcome contributions (in English
or German) from researchers who theoretically focus on models of discourse
representation, or from experimentalists who investigate the interplay of
linguistic cues and discourse segmentation to model processing preferences
using different experimental methods. We are also interested in contributions
which approach the topic cross-linguistically, historically or from a
computational perspective.

Invited Speakers:

Nicholas Asher (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse)
Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh)

Organizers:

Anke Holler (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Katja Suckow (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Barbara Hemforth (Université Paris Diderot)
Israel de la Fuente (Université Paris Diderot)

[1] Asher, Nicholas and Alex Lascarides (2003). Logics of Conversation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[2] Grosz, Barbara J. and Candace L. Sidner (1986). Attention, intention, and
the structure of discourse. Computational
Linguistics 12(3). 175–204.
[3] Kehler, Andrew, Laura Kertz, Hannah Rohde, and Jeffrey L. Elman (2008).
Coherence and coreference revisited.
Journal of Semantics 25(1). 1–44.


2nd Call for Papers:

Original deadline for submission extended to August 6, 2016.

We invite abstracts for talks (about 20mins + 10mins for discussion) for the
working session ''Information structuring in discourse'' to take place during
the 39th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft,
March 8-10, 2017 Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany 

The aim of this working section is to bring together researchers from the
broad field of discourse segmentation to discuss information structuring
during discourse processing. We particularly welcome contributions (in English
or German) from researchers who theoretically focus on models of discourse
representation, or from experimentalists who investigate the interplay of
linguistic cues and discourse segmentation to model processing preferences
using different experimental methods. We are also interested in contributions
which approach the topic cross-linguistically, historically or from a
computational perspective.

Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages, including all examples and references.
Please submit your anonymous abstracts (write your author information and
affiliations in the body of your email) in pdf format to
katja.suckow at phil.uni-goettingen.de by August 6, 2016.




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