34.307, Calls: Romance; Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 34.307, Calls: Romance; Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 03:32:05
From: Anna-Maria De Cesare [anna-maria.decesare at tu-dresden.de]
Subject: 1st International Conference on “Automated texts In the ROMance languages”

 
Full Title: 1st International Conference on “Automated texts In the ROMance languages” 
Short Title: Ai-ROM 

Date: 28-Sep-2023 - 29-Sep-2023
Location: Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany 
Contact Person: Anna-Maria De Cesare
Meeting Email: ai-rom at mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2023 

Meeting Description:

Automated texts belong to a rapidly evolving field and have a high degree of
disruptive power. From a technical standpoint, they are generated with new and
increasingly sophisticated techniques, involving the use of algorithms and
(soft) artificial intelligence. From a communicative perspective, they are in
the process of revolutionizing the way texts are conceived, produced,
distributed, and consumed. As they grow in number, improve in quality, and
expand in variety, automated texts are set to become an important part of our
lives over the next decade.

The 1st Ai-ROM Conference aims at bringing together researchers from all areas
of Romance Linguistics and neighboring fields (Communication Science, Media
and Journalism Studies, Computational Linguistics) to reflect on automated
texts from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, descriptive, and practical.
We understand ‘automated texts’ in a broad sense, including formats as diverse
as texts generated by AI-powered smart agents, informally called “chatbots”,
producing both written and/or oral outputs (e.g., ChatGPT, as well as “virtual
assistants” such as Alexa, Siri etc.), template-based automated texts (A.I.
Anchor, Gabriele, Tobi) automated neural machine translations (produced by
DeepL, Google Translate etc.), and texts generated by writing assistants
(e.g., rytr.com). 

We welcome abstracts on single Romance languages and varieties, on comparisons
between Romance languages or between Romance and Germanic languages. The
conference is open to all theoretical and methodological approaches. Special
interest lies in corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses as well as
qualitative and quantitative analyses. Papers presented at the conference will
be published in a special issue of an international journal (TBA).

Topics of interest for the Ai-ROM conference include but are not limited to:
- Taxonomies of automated texts, reflections on category boundaries and hybrid
forms
- Comparisons between automated and human language (written, oral, hybrid) 
- Linguistic features of automated texts (i.e., lexical, morphological,
syntactic)
- Graphic properties of automated texts (e.g., punctuation, emoji, emoticons)
- Linguistic expression of stereotypes as well as gender, race, age, and other
forms of biases 
- Textual properties of automated texts (textual units, cohesive markers,
thematic progression, implicit communication etc.)
- Text automation and information packaging
- Pragmatic and discursive properties of automated texts
- Challenges and opportunities of text automation for teaching and learning
practices
- Challenges and opportunities of automated texts for smaller Romance
varieties


Call for Papers:

Abstract submission and notification of acceptance

If you are interested in participating in the conference, please submit your
abstract (in English or a Romance language: Italian, French, Spanish,
Portuguese) by April 15, 2023 to ai.rom at mailbox.tu-dresden.de. The abstract
must be anonymous and include between 400 and 500 words (spaces included;
references excluded). It must provide information on the language(s)
considered, the phenomenon analyzed, the data used and the method of
investigation. It should also indicate some (provisional) results. 

The Scientific Committee will announce acceptance / rejection of proposals by
April 30, 2023.




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