27.2396, Calls: Computational Ling, General Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 27.2396, Calls: Computational Ling, General Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 09:51:51
From: Eric Fuß [fuss at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: Grammar and Corpora 2016 Computational Ling, General Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

Full Title: Grammar and Corpora 2016 
Short Title: GaC 2016 

Date: 09-Nov-2016 - 11-Nov-2016
Location: Mannheim, Germany 
Contact Person: Beata Trawiński
Meeting Email: gac2016 at easychair.org
Web Site: http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance; Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 17-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

The organising committee of GaC 2016 is pleased to invite contributions to the
sixth international conference Grammar and Corpora, to be held at the
Institute for the German Language in Mannheim on 9-11 November 2016.

In recent years, the availability of large annotated and searchable corpora,
together with a new interest in the empirical foundation and validation of
linguistic theory and description has sparked a surge of novel and interesting
work using corpus methods to study the grammar of natural languages. However,
a look at relevant current research on the grammar of German, English, or the
Romance and Slavic languages reveals a variety of different theoretical
approaches and empirical foci which can be traced back to different
philological and linguistic traditions. Still, this state of affairs should
not be seen as an obstacle but arguably provides an ideal basis for a fruitful
exchange of ideas between different research paradigms. 

In addition to deepening our knowledge and understanding of individual
languages, corpus-oriented work on grammar has wider implications that concern
methodological as well as theoretical aspects. Relevant topics and research
questions concern e.g. annotation schemata for (larger) syntactic units and
syntactic relations, the increased use of (advanced) statistical methods and
models in linguistics, the relation and boundary between grammar and
discourse, and more generally the interface between corpus linguistics and
linguistic theory.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Anne Abeillé (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France)
Susan Conrad (Portland State University, USA)
Anke Holler (University of Göttingen, Germany)
John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Alexandr Rosen (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)

Final Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions for 25-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for
discussion) and for poster presentations. Abstracts should clearly present a
specific thesis statement and include a description of the topic, approach,
and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two
reviewers. Conference languages are English and German.

Submissions must comply with the following guidelines:

- They must remain fully anonymous.
- They should be no more than 1 page written in 12 point Times New Roman font
with up to 1 additional page for data, figures and references.
- They must be submitted as a PDF file.
- All abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair system.
- Submission deadline extended to 17 June 2016

Submission Procedure:

- Login at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gac2016
- Enter your EasyChair username and password and log in.
- If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on ''create an account'' and
fill out the form.
- Click ''New Submission'' at the top left of the page.
- By following the instructions, fill in the form, upload your abstract via
''Uploads'', and then submit.
- After submitting your abstract successfully, you should receive an e-mail
from EasyChair that you have successfully submitted your abstract.

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