Corpora: CFP: Workshop on Corpus-Based & Processing Approaches to Figurative Language

[Mark G Lee]

                     Interdisciplinary workshop

                               on

        Corpus-Based & Processing Approaches to Figurative Language



Thursday 29th March 2001 (all day)
Lancaster University, England

as part of
CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001
(main programme 30th March - 2nd April 2001)


FULL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/CorpusLinguistics2001/cfp.html


THEMES OF THE WORKSHOP:

The workshop will accommodate both figurative-language research that is
centred on corpora and figurative-language research that is centred on
AI or psychological processing models that make some use of corpora or
throw light on the use of corpora.

One focus of the workshop is that of mapping out desiderata for and
problems with corpora for figurative language research.  Here the
inclusion of different types of researcher --- theoretical linguists,
applied linguists, computational linguists, cognitive linguists,
psychologists, etc.  -- will bring a valuable mix of different
perspectives.


STYLE OF THE WORKSHOP:

The workshop will occupy a full day. We expect about 10 talks of 30
minutes including 10 minutes of discussion time each. We will enforce
the discussion time strictly.  The workshop will also include two
discussion sessions on topics identified as salient during the day. In
addition, we will allow posters to be set up at the beginning of the day
as well as software demonstrations, viewable during breaks.

Papers, posters and software demonstrations will be selected by the
workshop organizers on the basis of submitted two-page abstracts.  A
proceedings of full papers will be published after the event.

There will be some space for non-presenting participants. Please contact
one of the organizers if interested.


Abstract submission deadline: Monday 19 February 2001



WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

      Katja Markert
      Division of Informatics
      University of Edinburgh
      Edinburgh EH8 9LW
      U.K.

      markert at cogsci.ed.ac.uk


      John Barnden & Mark Lee
      School of Computer Science
      University of Birmingham
      Birmingham B15 2TT
      U.K.

      J.A.Barnden at cs.bham.ac.uk
      M.G.Lee at cs.bham.ac.uk