[Corpora-List] Second Call for Papers: Beyond semantics -- corpus-based investigations

[Heike Zinsmeister]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

"Beyond semantics: Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse
phenomena"
http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/

Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS) to be held in Goettingen, Germany, February 23-25, 2011

Call deadline: 08-August-2010
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In recent years, focus of corpus-based research has moved from
morpho-syntactic phenomena to semantics (e.g. word sense disambiguation,
frame semantics, predicate-argument structure, temporal structure) and
"beyond", i.e., to pragmatic and discourse-related phenomena (e.g. anaphora,
information structure). In the latter field, it is often especially hard to
transfer results from theoretical linguistics that are based on toy examples
to naturally-occurring texts. Even provided explicit annotation guidelines,
it is often difficult to annotate texts reliably.

We would like to bring together theoretical linguists who use texts and
corpora for pragmatic or discourse-related research questions, and corpus
linguists as well as computational linguists who create and annotate
relevant corpus resources, or exploit them. The goal of the workshop is to
enhance exchange between researchers of both fields, and thus to gain
insight in the -- possibly common -- properties and peculiarities of the
"beyond" phenomena.

We invite contributions related (but not limited) to one of the following
phenomena:
- anaphora
- discourse structure
- information structure
- implicatures and presuppositions
- event structure

Questions that we would like to address include:
- Which results from theoretical linguistics (e.g. frameworks,
generalizations) have been tried to apply to (running) texts? What were the
outcomes? Did these outcomes affect the theory?
- In annotating texts, which methods are applied? For instance, are there
linguistic tests that guide the annotators? Which tools are used?
- Which generalizations can be derived from existing resources? Which
applications make use of existing resources?
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* Submission *

For submission details please consult the workshop webpage:
http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/

* Important dates *

August 8, 2010:    Deadline for paper submissions
September 9, 2010: Notification of acceptance
December 1, 2010:  Camera-ready papers for the workshop proceedings plus a
one-page abstract for the DGfS conference proceedings
February 23-25, 2011: Workshop
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* Keynote speakers *

Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh

* Workshop organizers *

Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Heike Zinsmeister, University of Konstanz

* Programme committee *

Maria Averintseva-Klisch, Tuebingen University
Matthias Buch-Kromann, Copenhagen Business School
Philippa Cook, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Markus Egg, Humbold-Universitaet Berlin
Anke Holler, University of Goettingen
Graham Katz, Georgetown University
Ralf Klabunde, Ruhr-University Bochum
Valia Kordoni, DFKI GmbH and Saarland University
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Saarland University
Katja Markert, University of Leeds
Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen
Marta Recasens, University of Barcelona
Arndt Riester, University of Stuttgart
Julia Ritz, University of Potsdam
Antje Rossdeutscher, University of Stuttgart
Bjoern Rothstein, Ruhr-University Bochum
Josef Ruppenhofer, Saarland University
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam
Yannick Versley, Tuebingen University
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh

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For any questions contact : beyondsem at linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister (workshop organizers)
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