29.999, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 29.999, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:01:30
From: Alexandre Roulois [alexandre.roulois at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: Grammar and Corpora 2018

 
Full Title: Grammar and Corpora 2018 
Short Title: GAC 2018 

Date: 15-Nov-2018 - 17-Nov-2018
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Benoît Crabbé
Meeting Email: benoit.crabbe at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Web Site: http://drehu.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/gac-2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2018 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce the 7th international conference Grammar and
Corpora. The conference will take place in Paris, France, on 15-17 November
2018.

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.

Orateurs invités :

Markus Bader (Francfort)
Claire Gardent (CNRS, Loria)
Joachim Nivre (Uppsala)


Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions that explore the use of corpus methods in the
description and theoretical analysis of the grammar of natural languages.
Focal areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Corpus-based studies on the grammar of Romance, Germanic and Slavic
languages:
-- The use of (large) corpora in the description of patterns of grammar from
both a language-specific and a contrastive/cross-linguistic perspective
-- The identification and formal modelling of (different types of) synchronic
linguistic variation using corpus methods
-- New insights into the connection between linguistic variation and change
made available by inspecting ''language change in progress'' in large corpora
-- The use of advanced corpus-linguistic and statistical methods in historical
linguistics as a means to compensate for the relative scarcity of data

- Theoretical and methodological issues pertaining to corpus-oriented research
on grammar:
-- Tools, methods and techniques in corpus assembly, annotation and analysis
-- The interaction between corpus linguistics and computational linguistics
-- The interaction between corpus linguistics and linguistic theory
-- The use of statistical and quantitative methods in detecting patterns of
grammar
-- The impact of corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches on our
view/understanding of grammar

A subset of these issues will be the focus of several invited keynotes on
applied corpus linguistic, statistical and computational tools and techniques,
and of a poster session.

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.

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:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gac2018




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