[Corpora-List] Call for ICAME35 Workshop Participation 'Corpus-based approaches to discourse relations', Wed 30 April, University of Nottingham

[Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski]

ICAME25 Workshop on Corpus-based approaches to discourse relations, Wed 
30 April, 2014, Nottingham

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop convenors:
Kerstin Kunz and Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski

CONTACT:
kerstin.kunz at iued.uni-heidelberg.de and e.lapshinova at mx.uni-saarland.de

SUMMARY
In recent years, more innovative methods of corpus-based analysis are 
used to investigate relations on the level of text or discourse. The 
workshop is organised with a focus on these new approaches and will 
include methods of corpus exploitation, e.g. (semi-)automatic 
identification of discourse relations, as well as new methods of 
statistical evaluation (e.g. multivariate statistical analysis).

The papers address a variety of discourse phenomena such as cohesion and 
coherence, information structure and information packaging. The 
variation investigated will concern intra-lingual variation between 
registers and between written and spoken language, contrasts between 
several languages and differences between translations and originals.

The workshop will end with a final discussion. It will mainly revolve 
around the question of how different aspects of discourse can be 
analysed in combination, both from the perspective of data exploration 
and data interpretation:

Which categories have to be defined? How many levels of analysis are 
needed? Which relations between which elements are concerned?
What are the dependent and what are the independent variables?
Which tools are best for semi-automatic extraction? Which tools can be 
combined?

For the detailed programme, please visit:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/english/icame-35/pre-conference-workshops.aspx

Participants of the workshop will also have the opportunity to attend a 
talk by Ronald Carter to officially open the ICAME35 conference:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/english/icame-35/keynote-speakers.aspx

The talk will be followed by a reception.

Best regards,
Ekaterina and  Kerstin



-- 
Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski

Fachrichtung 4.6
Dept. of Applied Linguistics,
Interpreting and Translation

Universität des Saarlandes
Building A2.2, Room 1.02
Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken
Tel. +49 681 302 2563
E-Mail: e.lapshinova at mx.uni-saarland.de


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