[Corpora-List] CfChapters-Ed.Book- Sequence in text and language

[Georgios Mikros]

**Apologies for cross-postings**

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Call for Chapters Proposals

Edited book Title: Sequences in Language and Text

Editors: Jan Macutek and George K. Mikros

Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2012

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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Series: Quantitative Linguistics

Series Eds Reinhard Kohler, Gabriel Altmann, Peter Grzybek

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General Description

The aim of this book is to present a diverse but highly interesting area of
linguistic analysis, which is concerned with the quantitative analysis of
the sequence of various linguistic structures. Language is structured in
both paradigmatic and syntagmatic axe and both dimensions contribute
significantly to the functional construction of the linguistic meaning. In
this volume, we will focus on the syntagmatic level of the linguistic
structure. We plan to collect contributions that give insight to both the
various quantitative analyses of linguistic syntagmatic structures and to
the exploration of novel sequential linguistic structures. The proposed
volume will be a valuable resource of mathematical tools useful for
analyzing sequential language data and of various linguistic structures
belonging to different linguistic levels that are organized in a syntagmatic
way.

Quantitative analysis of linguistic sequences has a long history in the area
of language modeling and speech processing especially through the Markov
chains. However, sporadically, linguistic sequences have been analyzed with
the aid of time series models, wavelets etc. in a wide spectrum of language
related fields such as Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Authorship
Identification,  Glottochronology etc. 

The proposed volume will present in a unified way current research related
to the quantitative analysis of linguistic sequences. All chapters should
address both introductions to the methods used and original research
questions. Introductions in mathematical and computational aspects should be
exposed clearly and taking into account the diverse background of the
prospective audience. Ideally, each chapter should define a specific
linguistically motivated research hypothesis and provide a gentle
introduction to the method used.  

The proposed volume will be one of the first to collect systematically and
present original research for the quantitative analysis of sequentially
organized linguistic data. We hope this book to be a standard reference in
future related research and at the same time utilized by both undergraduate
and postgraduate courses in the areas of Linguistics, Natural Language
Processing and Text and Web Mining.

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Specific topics include but are not limited to:

- Kinds of sequences (monotonous, max-min, oscillating, devil's staircase,
runs, time series, arc length, Hurst exponent, Lyapunov coefficient,
Minkowski sausage, Fourier series, autocorrelation, rhythm, fractals and
dimensions etc.) and their properties.

- Kinds of tendencies, boundary conditions, hypothesis formation.

- Symbolic sequences (runs, cumulative sequences, nominal style,
descriptivity/activity, complexity, distances between equal entities, climax
in verse).

- Kohler's motifs (words, clauses, sentences, other units).

- Type-token sequences and information flow.

- Markov chains.

- N-gram analysis.

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Publication Schedule

- 1 June 2012                      Submission of 1000 words abstract

- 31 July 2012                      Review of abstract returned

- 1 November 2012          Submission of full paper

- 31 January 2013              Review results of paper returned

- 28 February                     Submission of revisions

- April-May 2013                               Expected publication date

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Submission Procedure: 

Researchers, scholars and professionals are invited to submit on or before
June 1, 2012, a chapter proposal of not more than 1000 words, clearly
stating the purpose of the chapter and its contents, as well as how the
proposed chapter relates to the overall objectives of the book . Submissions
should be in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by July 31, 2012. Upon acceptance of their
proposals, authors will have until 1 November 2012 to prepare their chapters
of up to 10,000 words. Guidelines for preparing chapters will be sent upon
acceptance of proposals.

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Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded by email to the editors:

 

Jan Macutek, 

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Comenius University

Mlynska dolina

84248 Bratislava

Slovakia

jmacutek at yahoo.com

 

and

 

George K. Mikros,

Department of Italian Language and Literature,

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,

GR 15784 Athens

Greece

gmikros at isll.uoa.gr

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