Fwd: Workshop on Comparing Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences

[Doug Cooper]

Subject: Workshop on Comparing Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences
From: Anju Saxena <Anju.Saxena at LINGFIL.UU.SE>

Important Dates:
- 15 April 2011: Submission deadline
- 15 May 2011: Acceptance notification
- 24-25 October 2011: Workshop

University of Gothenburg
http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/workshop2011

Invited Speakers (confirmed so far):

- Michael Cysouw (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
- John Nerbonne (University of Groningen)
- Søren Wichmann (MPI Leipzig)

Call for Papers:

We invite researchers to submit proposals for presentations at the
workshop, including but not limited to topics such as:

- Explicit comparison/evaluation of different methods using the same data
- What do the methods measure? - linguistically informed evaluation of
automatic approaches to measuring linguistic differences
- Beyond lexicostatistics: quantification of grammatical and semantic
differences, in an automatic or non-automatic framework
- Methodological challenges for historical-comparative linguistics
- Quantitative aspects of traditional methods in historical linguistics
- New data sources for measuring linguistic differences and their
methodological challenges
- Case studies on individual languages, language families or linguistic areas

Abstracts should be one (A4 or letter) page long, with 25 mm/one inch
margins and the text in a 12 point Roman font. A second page may be
included for references and/or data. Abstracts -- in pdf format only
-- should be sent to:
<workshop2011(at)svenska(d)gu(d)se> (change the parenthesized
expressions into the appropriate characters).

For more details, visit the workshop homepage:
<http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/workshop2011>

-- 
Anju Saxena
Professor of Linguistics
Dept. of Linguistics & Philology
Uppsala University
Sweden

http://www2.lingfil.uu.se/personal/anjusaxena/

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