[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: "Discourse Expectations" Workshop in T=?iso-8859-1?Q?=FCbingen_?=(D), June 2013

[Torgrim Solstad]

DISCOURSE EXPECTATIONS: THEORETICAL, EXPERIMENTAL, AND COMPUTATIONAL 
PERSPECTIVES
- Workshop at the University of Tübingen (Germany), June 20-21, 2013

*Apologies for multiple postings*

Studies on discourse processing suggest that natural language 
interpretation is expectation-driven. World knowledge and discourse 
context are used immediately to anticipate how discourse is likely to 
continue. Although there is ample evidence demonstrating such 
forward-looking processes both within single sentences and in larger 
discourse, we still lack a unified account of its foundation; i.e. the 
extent to which linguistic and extralinguistic factors influence 
expectations and whether these are driven by linguistic or 
language-external factors. The workshop contributes to the understanding 
of discourse expectations by bringing together linguists, 
psycholinguists, cognitive scientists and computational linguists 
working on discourse processing.

We encourage submissions of theoretical, experimental and computational 
studies on the following aspects, and topics related to these:

- What is the nature of expectations in discourse? Do they pertain only 
to discourse or anaphoric relations? How specific are expectations? Are 
they abstract objects or particulars?
- How do expectations emerge? Are they triggered locally, e.g. by 
lexical items, or are they determined globally by more general 
properties of discourse, such as the discourse topic/Question under 
Discussion (QuD)? How do local and global expectations interact?

The phenomenon of implicit causality may serve as a particularly 
illustrative example: In psycholinguistic and linguistic research, it 
has been shown that certain transitive verbs with two animate arguments 
trigger expectations of explanations of a particular type. Thus, while 
the experiencer-object verb "fascinate" triggers explanations about the 
subject ("John fascinates Mary because HE..."), the experiencer-subject 
verb "admire" triggers explanations about the object ("John admires Mary 
because SHE..."). This phenomenon has been exploited in psycholinguistic 
experiments to investigate the time course of semantic and/or pragmatic 
interpretation, often with clear demonstrations of the emergence of 
early effects in discourse comprehension that appear shortly after the 
verb has been processed. However, further theoretically oriented 
investigations may benefit our understanding of the nature of these 
effects as well as their modeling.

INVITED SPEAKERS AND PRELIMINARY TALK TITLES

- Arnout W. Koornneef (Utrecht University): On predictive reading styles 
and the use of implicit causality information in pronoun resolution
- Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh): What to do when a linguist 
says she's expecting: Coherence and coreference expectations in sentence 
processing
- Roger van Gompel (University of Dundee): Producing reference: 
Psycholinguistic and computational perspectives

We plan to publish a selection of papers in a special issue of a journal.

VENUE AND IMPORTANT DATES:

The workshop will take place at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Submission deadline: March 1, 2013
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013
Workshop dates: June 20-21 (Thursday-Friday), 2013

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We invite abstracts for 45 minute presentations (including discussion). 
Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, not exceeding two pages 
(A4) with 1 in margins, including references, examples, data summaries 
and charts. Authors and their affiliations should be omitted and 
submitted on a separate sheet with the abstract title.

Abstracts should be submitted to the below address. Please, include the 
first author's name in the subject line of your email. The title of the 
abstract and the names of any co-authors should appear in the body of 
the email.

detec2013[at]gmail.com

WORKSHOP WEB PAGE

More information on the workshop will be made available continuously 
under the following address:

http://detec2013.wordpress.com

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Nicholas Asher (CNRS & University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Nadine Bade (University of Tübingen)
Berry Claus (Humboldt University Berlin)
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (University of Oslo)
Alan Garnham (University of Sussex)
Joshua Hartshorne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Barbara Hemforth (University Paris Descartes)
Katja Jasinskaja (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Yuki Kamide (University of Dundee)
Hans Kamp (University of Texas, Austin/University of Stuttgart)
Elena Karagjosova (University of Stuttgart)
Barbara Kaup (University of Tübingen)
Arnout Koornneef (Utrecht University)
Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen)
Arndt Riester (University of Stuttgart)
Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh)
Antje Rossdeutscher (University of Stuttgart)
Ted Sanders (Utrecht University)
Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh)
Roger van Gompel (University of Dundee)
Yannick Versley (University of Tübingen)
Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam)

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Oliver Bott (SFB 833, University of Tübingen)
Juhani Järvikivi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Anna Pryslopska (SFB 833, University of Tübingen)
Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck (Saarland University)
Torgrim Solstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

FUNDING

This workshop is financially supported by the Collaborative Research 
Centre (SFB) 833 "The construction of meaning - the dynamics and 
adaptivity of linguistic structures" at the University of Tübingen.
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