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Subject: 30.1904, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 01:09:20
From: Torgrim Solstad [solstad at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives

 
Full Title: Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives 
Short Title: DETEC2019 

Date: 27-Sep-2019 - 28-Sep-2019
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Torgrim Solstad
Meeting Email: detec2019 at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: http://www.leibniz-zas.de/workshop_detec2019.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

The conference series ''Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and
Computational Perspectives'' (DETEC) provides a forum for the presentation of
talks and posters in the area of discourse expectations, how they may arise,
how they can be quantified, and how they may be modeled. Following the success
of the previous three installments of DETEC, the Leibniz-Centre General
Linguistics (ZAS) is pleased to invite abstracts for submission to ''Discourse
Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC
2019)'' to be held in Berlin, Germany, on September 27-28, 2019.

Invited Speakers (CONFIRMED)

- Elsi Kaiser (Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles)
- Alex Lascarides (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
- Mante Nieuwland (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

Local Organizers:

Anton Benz
Torgrim Solstad


2nd Call for Papers:

Studies on discourse processing indicate that natural language interpretation
is expectation-driven. Even though it is uncontroversial that both linguistic
(e.g. lexical items, morphosyntactic constructions, prosody) and
extra-linguistic factors (e.g. world knowledge) are used to anticipate how
discourse is likely to continue, the nature of their interplay is a topic of
ongoing research. The DETEC conference provides a forum for the presentation
of research in the area of discourse expectations, how they may arise, how
they can be quantified, and how they may be modeled. DETEC approaches this
topic in an interdisciplinary fashion by comparing theoretical, experimental,
and computational perspectives. Researchers from a wide spectrum of
backgrounds are, therefore, welcome to present. This includes research on
cognitive, semantic, probabilistic, and algorithmic modeling, as well as
empirical studies applying experimental and corpus linguistic methods.

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks and posters. Topics may be related
(but not limited) to:

- What is the nature of expectations in discourse?
- How do discourse expectations emerge and how specific are they?
- What is the relation between top-down triggers for expectations and
bottom-up predictees?
- How do (online) processing profiles within different experimental paradigms
relate to particular expectations?
- How can discourse expectations be (computationally) modeled within and
across linguistic and extra-linguistic domains?
- How can theoretical linguistics contribute to models of and experimental
research on predictive processing?
- To what extent can properties of predictive processing inform linguistic
theories?

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts must be anonymous, and should be limited to a maximum of two pages
of text, including tables, figures, and references. Pages should be US Letter
or A4, with one inch margins, and a minimum font size of 11pt (Times New
Roman). Abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=detec2019

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2019
Notification of acceptance: Early July, 2019
Pre-Conference Warm-up and Registration Evening: September 26, 2019
Conference dates: September 27-28, 2019

Contact Information:

Email: detec2019 at leibniz-zas.de
Website: http://www.leibniz-zas.de/workshop_detec2019.html

Pre-Conference Workshop:

We would like to call your attention to the following Xprag.de workshop on
September 25-26, 2019, directly preceding the DETEC conference, also to be
held at ZAS (Berlin):

''Contrasting Underspecification and Overspecification of Discourse
Relations'' with Nicholas Asher, Katja Jasinskaja, Arndt Riester, and Hannah
Rohde confirmed as invited speakers.

For further information, visit:

https://www.xprag.de/?page_id=6215




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