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

[Heike Zinsmeister]

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 *

Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
(Second speaker tba)

* 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
Anke Holler, University of Goettingen
Graham Katz, Georgetown 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
Bjoern Rothstein, Ruhr-University of 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
(to be completed)
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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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