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Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:03:52
From: Franziska Kretzschmar [franziska.kretzschmar at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Diversity and Prediction in Language Processing: Influences of Speaker, Register, and Experimental Method (Workshop at DGfS 2020)

 
Full Title: Diversity and Prediction in Language Processing: Influences of Speaker, Register, and Experimental Method (Workshop at DGfS 2020) 
Short Title: DivPred2020 

Date: 04-Mar-2020 - 06-Mar-2020
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Franziska Kretzschmar
Meeting Email: franziska.kretzschmar at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: https://www.zfs.uni-hamburg.de/dgfs2020/dgfs2020.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2019 

Meeting Description:

Workshop (''Kurz-AG 16'') organized as part of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the
German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held at the University of Hamburg,
Germany, March 4-6, 2020.

Conference homepage: https://www.zfs.uni-hamburg.de/dgfs2020/dgfs2020.html

Organizers:
Franziska Kretzschmar and Ingmar Brilmayer (University of Cologne) and Phillip
Alday (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Invited Speaker:
Roel Willems (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Radboud
University Nijmegen)

Aims and Background:

Prediction plays a central role in theories of language processing and is
assumed to influence both the speed and accuracy of processing. Although there
is a lively debate about what form prediction may take (cf. Huettig & Mani
2016, Kuperberg & Jaeger 2016, Pickering & Gambi 2018), there is little work
examining the influence of linguistic and experimental diversity on
prediction. For a better understanding of prediction, we invite researchers
from all branches of empirical/experimental linguistics to examine three
facets of diversity in language processing:

Intra- and Inter-individual Diversity: Usually explored in coarse group
comparisons (e.g., mono- vs. multilingual) or broad cognitive distinctions
(e.g., working memory), intra- and inter-individual diversity remains
underdescribed and less well understood. How do language users differ in their
predictive abilities and strategies, and how are these differences shaped by
biological and/or cultural influences?

Stylistic Diversity: Despite calls for more naturalistic stimuli, the majority
of language processing research still focuses on a very constrained register
of well-controlled sentences composed in the standard language. How are
predictions shaped by extra- and meta-linguistic context, such as
register/genre or accent/speaker identity?

Methodological Diversity: A wide variety of empirical methods are now
available, yet the majority of studies use only one or two. What opportunities
and challenges do we face, when integrating multiple approaches to examine
linguistic diversity in human’s predictive capacity? How much diversity can
our methods handle?


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for oral presentations (20mins talk + 10 discussion),
describing original research on linguistic and methodological diversity in
predictive processing. Abstracts must be anonymous and must not exceed one
page, including examples, figures and references. Please submit your abstract
in PDF format, with 1 inch margins on all sides and 12 point font size. 

Please submit your anonymous abstract (in PDF format) via EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=divpred2020

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro each are available for
accepted contributions by DGfS members with low or without income. If you
would like to be considered for a travel grant, you will have to send a short
letter of motivation to the organizers upon acceptance of your contribution. 

Please note that the regulations of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) do
not allow that workshop participants present two or more papers in the same or
different workshops. It is possible to be a co-author on more than one
abstract.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2019
Notification of acceptance: Early September, 2019
Workshop: March 4-6, 2020

For any questions, please contact the organizers
franziska.kretzschmar at uni-koeln.de, ingmar.brilmayer at uni-koeln.de or
phillip.alday at mpi.nl




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