[Corpora-List] 2nd Call for Papers: Modelling Non-Standardized Writing

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CfP: Modelling Non-Standardized Writing

Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS) to be held in Potsdam, Germany, March 13-15, 2013

Invited Speakers
- Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Christian Mair (University of Freiburg, Germany)

Non-standardized writing can be found in various contexts: for instance, 
when there are no generally established written language standards (e.g. 
in languages with an emergent writing system); when existing standards are 
deliberately ignored by the authors (in creative writing) or replaced by 
principles of verbalization that are borrowed from oral communication 
(e.g. when passing notes in a classroom); or when the norms of standard 
written language have not yet been fully acquired (as in learner texts). 
In particular, non-standardized writing plays an important role in 
research on Internet-based communication. The language used in e-mails, 
online forums, chats, blogs, etc. sometimes shows significant deviations 
from standard written language, while exhibiting characteristics of oral 
language at the levels of lexicon, morphology, and syntax. Well-known 
phenomena include nonstandard and creative spellings, ad-hoc speedwriting, 
graphic emulation of prosody and emphasis, acronyms, emoticons, and 
written representation of non-verbal behavior.

The systematic description of non-standardized writing and its structural 
and functional analysis are key challenges not only for research on 
Internet-based communication but also for data-based linguistic studies 
and corpus creation in many other research areas. The goal of the workshop 
is to shed light on this problem from the perspective of various research 
fields and to explore common issues and possible solutions. The main focus 
is on non-standardized writing phenomena in:

- genres of Internet-based communication,
- language communities with emergent literacy,
- historic varieties of language, and
- learner texts.

Contributions should address one or more of the following aspects:

- problem sketches, empirical findings, categories of analysis, and annotation
schemata on all relevant levels of linguistic analysis;
- treatment of phenomena of non-standardized writing in the compilation and
analysis of linguistic corpora;
- applications of natural language processing techniques for the treatment of
non-standardized writing (in particular for the automatic linguistic annotation
of corpora).

Submission:

Authors wishing to contribute to the workshop are invited to submit a 
one-page abstract of up to 250 words (including references) by e-mail to 
nonstandard at linguistics.rub.de no later than 31 July 2012. Submissions and 
talks are accepted in German as well as English. Note that the talk must 
be given in the same language as the abstract. Submissions are accepted in 
Word (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) format. A template as well as further 
organizational information can be found at 
http://empirikom.net/bin/view/Aktivitaeten/DgfsNonstandard.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out by e-mail by the end of August 
2012.

Workshop organizers:
Michael Beißwenger, TU Dortmund
Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Stefan Evert, TU Darmstadt
Bianka Trevisan, RWTH Aachen
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