33.32, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics / Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) (Jrnl)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-33-32. Sat Jan 08 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.32, Calls:  Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics / Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) (Jrnl)

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Billy Dickson
Managing Editor: Lauren Perkins
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Goldfinch, Nils Hjortnaes,
      Joshua Sims, Billy Dickson, Amalia Robinson, Matthew Fort
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Sarah Goldfinch <sgoldfinch at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:07:02
From: Roman Schneider [schneider at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics / Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): German (deu)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2022 

Call for Papers: Challenges in Computational Linguistics, Empiric Research &
Multidisciplinary Potential of German Song Lyrics

Over the past decades, pop music has evolved from an element of youth culture
to a constitutive part of modern culture and language reality. Its
multi-layered subgenres - spanning easy listening, political songs, punk,
rock, and hip-hop (just to name a few) - surround our lives in the most
different situations. We listen to them in the car, while shopping or playing
sports or at home watching TV shows. Songs do not only amuse, but convey
messages and feelings, and offer inspiration or orientation. Moreover, a range
of very different genres representing the feelings and sensitivities of a
pluralistic society have developed in niches outside of the commercial
mainstream. Textual content of pop songs, as e.g. already documented in
research on the interaction between pop songs and youth language, thus can be
seen as influential on everyday language. Song lyrics combine a multitude of
styles and registers, they show features of written and spoken discourse, and
they can be seen as a representation of language diversity in the continuum
between standard and non-standard language.

In the past, German linguistics and computational linguistics have not paid
much attention to this topic, possibly due to a lack of resources. Today, the
publicly accessible song lyrics corpus (songkorpus.de) offers sustainable and
widely stratified data for empiric explorations. All contents have been
digitized or encoded using established text technological standards (such as
TEI-P5). There are multiple layers of annotation including lemma,
parts-of-speech, named entities, and even neologisms. Lyrics are legally
cleared, and divided into author-specific and thematic archives. This
repository hence constitutes a real treasure trove for linguistic research
replete with interesting vocabulary, unusual morphology and exceptional
syntax.

Against this background, the special edition of the open-access journal
''Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL)''
(jlcl.org) invites inter- and multidisciplinary contributions on the
qualitative and quantitative analyses of German song lyrics. The publication
date is scheduled for the end of 2022.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- computational and text technological challenges for the processing of song
texts (segmentation, tagging, parsing, etc.)
- empirical claims on standard language proximity, and/or a positioning in the
continuum between written and colloquial language
- language change and alternations of language patterns
- lexical diversity, verbal creativity, neologisms and occasionalisms
- stylistic analyses, measures of text analogies, identification of author
specific patterns 
- empiric detection of figurative language, e.g. idiomatic word combinations
and metaphors
- identification and visualization of prominent topics for selected time spans
and authors
- analyses of language and politics in a temporal context
- sentiment analysis to describe the emotionality in song texts
- rhyme forms and rhyme schemes
- multimodal extension, e.g. taking music videos into account.

Contributions can be submitted in German or English to pub at songkorpus.de and
will be peer-reviewed. There is no limitation to the length of an article, but
authors should try not to exceed 20 pages. Shorter contributions are of course
also welcome.

Important dates:

- Expression of interest / short abstract (maximum 200 words): January 31st
2022 (extended)
- Author notification of provisional acceptance: February 28st 2022
- Final submission of camera-ready articles: October 31st 2022

For more information, please feel free to contact the guest editors of this
special issu




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2020 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
                   https://crowdfunding.iu.edu/the-linguist-list

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-33-32	
----------------------------------------------------------