28.4596, Confs: Comp Ling, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Subject: 28.4596, Confs: Comp Ling, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:01:52
From: Ángel Gallego [angel.gallego at uab.cat]
Subject: Geographic Information Systems and Social Networks: Consequences for the Study of Linguistic Variation

 
Geographic Information Systems and Social Networks: Consequences for the Study of Linguistic Variation 
Short Title: GISLingVar 

Date: 30-Nov-2017 - 30-Nov-2017 
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact: Ángel J. Gallego 
Contact Email: spadisyn at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.asines.org 

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

Meeting Description: 

In the last years, the study of linguistic variation has widened its empirical
scope, both quantitatively and qualitatively. This is in part due to the fact
that the evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the appearance
of the emergent social networks, which present themselves as potential tools
to detect and analyze evidence. These developments allow us to manage a large
amount of data and offer a fine-grained analysis of the frequency and nature
of current linguistic variation, making it necessary to reconsider the
relation between such methods and the existing theories to approach language
variation.

In this context, this workshop focuses on the consequences of applying
geographic information systems and social networks to the study of linguistic
variation. The particular topics to be addressed in the workshop include, but
are not limited to, questions like the following:

− How can GIS help us improve our understanding of linguistic variation? 
− How do GIS contribute to the use of traditional methods in dialectology
(questionnaires, interviews, polls, etc.)?
− What is the impact of social networks in the study of phenomena such as
language contact or code switching?
− What is the best way to collect and classify the data obtained through
social networks? 
− How does the emergence of big-data driven approaches interact with
theoretical approaches to linguistic variation?
− What is the relation between our methodological choices and the varying
hypotheses of linguistic theory?

The workshop is framed within the ''Mapping Internet's Linguistic Variation
(PROVAIN)'' project, funded by the Fundación BBVA. 

Invited speakers:

Ricardo ETXEPARE (IKER - CNRS)
Charles YANG (University of Pennsylvania)
 

Program: 

09:00:
Registration

09:30:
Opening remarks

10:15:
Jack Grieve (University of Birmingham)
“The Future of Dialectology” 

11:00: Break

11:30:
Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics) [via SKYPE]
“Interactive maps for linguistic data Crowdsourcing. Pros and cons.”

12:30 David Sánchez (UIB-CSIC)
“Language variation in Twitter: Machine learning and dialectometry approaches”

13:15: Lunch

15:45:
Carlota de Benito (University of Zurich)  & Ana Estrada (University of
Freiburg)
“Syntactic variation in Twitter: deísmo and expletive pronouns in  Spanish”

16:30:
Ricardo Etxepare (IKER – CNRS)
TBA

17:30:
Concluding remarks





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