27.1261, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 27.1261, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:19:49
From: Ljudmila Geist [Ljudmila.Geist at ling.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: New Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on the Literal/Non-literal Meaning Divide

Full Title: New Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on the Literal/Non-literal Meaning Divide 

Date: 10-Oct-2016 - 11-Oct-2016
Location: University of Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact Person: Ljudmila Geist
Meeting Email: sfb732-meaning-workshop at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web Site: http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/konferenz/MeaningWorkshop2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

There is a rich linguistic tradition dealing with the structure of the
lexicon. Two phenomena that have been analyzed in detail in theoretical
linguistics are (a) the extension from literal to non-literal meaning via
metaphor, metonymy, grammaticalization/constructionalization and related
processes (Lakoff & Johnson 1980, Lehmann 1995, Eckardt 2006, Traugott &
Trousdale 2013, inter alia) and (b) the properties of lexical items that give
rise to lexical classes and subclasses (Levin 1993, Craig 1986, Corbett 1991,
Harbour 2007, Albright 2002, Albright & Hayes 2003 inter alia). Computational
linguistics has analyzed these phenomena as well, using mostly distributional
approaches, trading expressivity of representations against the ability to
draw on evidence from large corpora (Merlo & Stevenson 2001, Schulte im Walde
2006, Fazly et al. 2009, Li et al. 2010, inter alia).

We see two main desiderata with regard to this area of inquiry: (i), given the
methodological gap between theoretical and distributional approaches, the
relationship between theoretically motivated lexical properties and
empirically observable ones needs to be clarified. (ii), more attention should
be paid to the systematic interactions of expressions with a literal and a
non-literal meaning within and across lexical classes, be it within
theoretical or computational descriptions. To give just one example, literal
and non-literal uses of a single lexical item will often retain the same
morphosyntactic properties whereas, contentwise, they will inhabit different
notional domains (cf. Croft 1995 for an early thorough investigation). This
would seem to be a very general force acting against form-meaning isomorphisms
or homomorphisms, and we would like to encourage reflections in this domain.

To shed light on these and other related matters, we invite abstracts (1-2
pages including references) for two different kinds of contributions. First,
we invite papers dealing with foundational issues of the literal/non-literal
meaning divide. Second, we have prepared a dataset that was extracted from the
EUROPARL corpus (https://goo.gl/LVJt1B). The dataset comprises all instances
of 16 German particle/prefix verbs and derived nominals in their sentential
contexts, together with the corresponding parallel sentences in English and
French. We invite papers to apply either theoretical or distributional
analyses to this dataset, or subsets thereof, and describe their findings. The
use made of the dataset is up to the authors (e.g., as “gold standard”, as
paraphrase, purely indicative, etc.).

Organizers:

Ljudmila Geist, Daniel Hole, Sebastian Padó, Gabriela Lapesa, Anne Temme
(Stuttgart Collaborative Research Center “Incremental Specification in Context
(SFB 732), funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG))  

Invited Speakers:

Adam Albright (MIT)
Henriette de Swart (Utrecht University)
Ekaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge)
Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz)

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: May 31, 2016
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2016 
Workshop: October 10-11, 2016

Call for Papers:

Submission Guidelines:

We invite submission of abstracts for (i) presentations of 30 minutes (20+10),
or (ii) for presentations of 45 minutes (35+10), depending on the empirical or
theoretical breadth of the submission. Please indicate in your submission if
you apply for a slot of 30 minutes, or of 45 minutes. Abstracts must be in
English, 1-2 pages (A4 or letter) in a font size no smaller than 12pt,
including examples and references. Abstracts should be anonymous, and contact
details (author’s/authors’ name(s) and affiliation(s)) and the title of the
presentation should be included in the accompanying email. 

Please send your abstract (PDF format) to:
sfb732-meaning-workshop at ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Pending budget approval, we will offer reimbursement for travel and
accommodation costs (economy class).

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