29.4578, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4578. Mon Nov 19 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4578, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Germany

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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:40:33
From: Katharina Ehret [katharina.ehret at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity

 
Full Title: Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity 
Short Title: IWMLC 

Date: 12-Sep-2019 - 13-Sep-2019
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Katharina Ehret
Meeting Email: katharina.ehret at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

Language complexity has been a hot and controversial topic in the past decade
which still engages researchers from diverse areas of linguistics and beyond.
This workshop aims to bring together complexity researchers from typology,
second language acquisition research, psycholinguistics, computational
linguistics, language evolution and other related fields. The goal is to
actually evaluate and compare different measures of language complexity by
means of a shared task. 

The workshop will be organised into traditional keynote talks and
presentations of the shared task. We will conclude the workshop with an
interactive session in which the different measures will be evaluated. While
the workshop is open for discussion of all topics relevant to research on
language complexity, we will specifically focus on the following practical and
theoretical issues: 

How do different complexity metrics correlate across parallel and non-parallel
data/different types of data?

How well do different complexity metrics deal with different language types,
i.e. are some language types/families easier or more consistently measurable
than others?

How well do measures within each domain correlate?

How robust are trade-offs, such as between morphology and syntax, across
different measures and corpora? 

How do corpus-based complexity metrics correlate with the feature-based
complexity information available in The World Atlas of Language Structures
(WALS)?


Call for Papers:

Participation requirements: 

After acceptance, participants are required to apply their own complexity (or
complexity-related) measure(s) to either (A) a parallel text database, or (B)
a non-parallel annotated text database. Track (A) covers a typologically
diverse database of 30 languages selected from the The World Atlas of Language
Structures database, https://wals.info/), and will consist of a parallel text
corpus of these languages (e.g. Bible corpora such as
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0787820/bible/). Track (B) will consist of an
annotated non-parallel corpus, specifically, the Universal Dependencies
corpora, http://universaldependencies.org/). The measures will be compared and
evaluated, with focus on the languages common to both track (A) and (B). Prior
to the workshop, participants will be required to submit their results,
calculations, and necessary scripts (if applicable), including detailed
descriptions of their methodologies and explanation of their results. These
will serve as basis for the statistical and theoretical evaluation in the
interactive session. 

Abstract submission guidelines: 

Submit an anonymised abstract of 500-600 words. Abstracts should give a short
overview of the theoretical background of the measure and detailed
explanations of (1) which level of language (e.g. morphology) is addressed,
(2) what exactly is measured (e.g. irregularity, lexical diversity), (3) how
the measure is calculated. Indicate whether you will participate in track (A),
for text-based measures, or track (B), for annotation-based measures. 

Submit your abstract via http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/IWMLC2019

Contact us if you are unsure about the suitability of your measure for the
proposed task. 

Shared task submission guidelines: 

Tba after notification of acceptance.

Key dates: 

Abstract submission deadline: 31 December 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2019
Publication of datasets: 15 February 2019
Shared task submission: 30 June 2019
Registration: 15 May 2019

Invited plenary speakers: 

Michael Cysouw (tbc)
Evie Malaia 
Vera Kempe 
María Dolores Jiménez-López

Funding: 

Workshop funding is pending and crucially depends on the number of confirmed
participants. A contribution to participants' travel/accommodation expenses
may be available.




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