[Lingtyp] Message on ALT Workshop: Dependency Grammar for Typology

[Erica Biagetti]

Hi,

Could you please send the message below to the list?

Thank you very much,
Erica (Biagetti, University of Pavia)

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*Dependency Grammar for Typology*

Workshop @ ALT 15 in Singapore; December 4-6, 2024

*New venue*: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore

*New dates*: December 4-6, 2024

*New abstract submission deadline*: April 15, 2014


This workshop aims to bring together typologists working using
dependency-annotated resources for quantitative typological research. We
aim to include both new studies that pursue dependency-annotated corpora to
answer typological questions, as well as more critical authors who point to
the limitations of ‘dependency grammar for typology’. This also includes
proposals on how quantitative typology can be conducted using heterogeneous
data sources and the development of new resources, as long as a focus on
comparative research is maintained.



Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


➔ Synchronic comparative studies on variation that can only be accessed
using corpora, such as word order (Levshina 2019, Talamo & Verkerk 2022);

➔ Comparative studies that employ such resources to uncover universal
principles of grammar, including dependency length optimization (Futrell,
Mahowald & Gibson 2015; Liu 2021, Yingqi, Blasi & Bickel 2022), word order
universals (Choi et al. 2021, Gerdes et al. 2021, Yan & Liu 2023), the
memory-surprisal trade-off (Hahn, Degen & Futrell 2021);

➔ Diachronic studies of language change, such as the evolution rate of word
order in main and subordinate clauses (Jing et al. 2023) or word order
change (Hahn & Xu 2022);

➔ Theoretical challenges in annotation, such as the universality of
syntactic labels, as well as of parts of speech, morpho-syntactic features,
and tokenization (Croft et al. 2017, Osborne & Gerdes 2019, Sinnemäki and
Haakana 2020, Hohn 2021);

➔ Development of new resources, in particular with respect to low-resource
languages, starting from different type of texts (corpora, fieldwork notes,
existing treebanks, Wikipedia, grammars, etc.) (Zariquiey et al. 2022,
Kahane et al. 2023);

➔ Projects that employ such resources to go beyond sentence-level syntactic
dependencies by developing additional layers of annotation for studying
discourse and information structure, among other levels;

➔ Robustness and statistical validity of typological quantitative measures
on the basis of different theoretical approaches and annotation schema
(Gerdes et al. 2018, Osborne & Gerdes 2019, Yan & Liu 2019).

➔ Limits of dependency grammar for typology: issues such as unbalanced
sampling, limitations of annotation in terms of availability, quality, as
well as ‘missing’ annotation, and heterogeneousness of the annotation
across treebanks, both in terms of application and quality.


We envision a worthwhile exchange between more traditional typologists and
typologists who have already worked with these resources. If you want to
join us, please submit your abstract to ALT15, explicitly indicating that
it is intended for the workshop "Dependency Grammar for Typology".
Instructions on how to submit abstracts can be found on the ALT2024 page:


https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/events/alt-2024/call-for-papers
  ----     Abstracts are due April 15th!

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Erica Biagetti
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Assegnista di ricerca / Postdoc researcher
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