34.1018, Calls: Workshop on Language Corpora in Australia

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Subject: 34.1018, Calls: Workshop on Language Corpora in Australia

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From: Li Nguyen [li.nguyen at anu.edu.au]
Subject: Workshop on Language Corpora in Australia


Full Title: Workshop on Language Corpora in Australia

Date: 03-Jul-2023 - 03-Jul-2023
Location: Online (via Zoom), Australia
Contact Person: Li Nguyen
Meeting Email: li.nguyen at anu.edu.au

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 22-May-2023

Meeting Description:

Over decades of work in Australia, significant collections of language
data have been amassed, including of varieties of Australian English,
Australian migrant languages, Australian Indigenous languages, sign
languages and others. These collections represent a trove of knowledge
not only of language in Australia, but also of Australia’s social and
cultural history. And yet, not all are well known and many lack
published descriptions. The purpose of this workshop is to provide an
opportunity to share information about existing language corpora in
Australia, with a view to producing a special issue of the Australian
Journal of Linguistics that introduces a selection of these corpora,
explores how they can contribute to our understanding of language,
society, and history in Australia, and considers avenues that such
corpora open up for future research.
This workshop is being run as part of the Language Data Commons of
Australia (LDaCA), which is working to build national research
infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, facilitating
access to and use of digital language corpora for linguists, scholars
across the Humanities and Social Sciences, and non-academics.

Call for Papers:

For a 20 min presentation, please submit a 250-300 word abstract in
English (excluding references). The presentation should include the
following information:

Speech community/fieldsite: Describe the location of the community
and/or their brief history in Australia, the languages spoken and
their current status.

Corpus design principles: Specify the sample size, sociolinguistic
background of the participants, method of data collection and/or genre
(e.g. sociolinguistic interviews, natural conversations, oral
histories, elicited data, etc.); data format
(written/spoken/audio/video, etc.) and where it is stored. 

Corpus findings and implications: Summarise some key findings from the
corpus and discuss other insights that might be obtained from the data
in current or future work. 

Important dates:

22 May  Abstracts due
5 June  Notification of acceptance
3 July  Workshop

How to Submit: Please submit your abstract by 22 May on
https://forms.gle/1pwxVVmUV5hCCZ997



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