16.194, Calls: General Ling/Germany; General Ling/Korea

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Subject: 16.194, Calls: General Ling/Germany; General Ling/Korea

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1)
Date: 19-Jan-2005
From: Manfred Stede < stede at ling.uni-potsdam.de >
Subject: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2005

2)
Date: 20-Jan-2005
From: Gwangrak Son < gson0 at kyungnam.ac.kr >
Subject: 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:00:04
From: Manfred Stede < stede at ling.uni-potsdam.de >
Subject: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2005

Full Title: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2005
Short Title: MAD 05

Date: 05-Oct-2005 - 08-Oct-2005
Location: Chorin/Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Manfred Stede
Meeting Email: mad05 at ling.uni-potsdam.de
Web Site: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~mad05

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 20-May-2005

Meeting Description:

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2005 (MAD'05) is the sixth in a
series of small-scale, high-quality workshops held bi-annually since 1995.
The theme of the 2005 WS is 'salience in discourse'.

Workshop Theme: Salience in Discourse

Understanding language involves mapping a linear sequence of information
units (in the case of texts: characters or words) to a structured
representation. Various proposals for such structures are under discussion,
but many of them share an underlying assumption: Structure arises from some
elements of the text being more prominent than others. The term salience is
often used for this phenomenon, but it comes in many different flavours.
The workshop aims to compare these flavours, to look for commonalities, but
also to sharpen distinctions where appropriate. We thus invite
contributions from linguistic, psychological, computational perspectives on
salience in discourse, including but not limited to notions such as the
following:

- Information structure is well known for a wide varitey of competing
conceptions, but they all relate to salience in one way or another:
focus/background, topic/focus, theme/rheme etc.
- Anaphora resolution (and, in the opposite direction, production of
referring expressions) can be modelled using salience, as it has been done
for instance in conceptions of referent accessibility (e.g., Prince 1981).
- Choices in sentence structure between coordination, subordination, or
nominalization can be claimed to have ramifications for discourse
processing, leading to conceptions of foreground/background structures on
the text level (e.g., Talmy 2000).
- Similarly, most theories of discourse structure involve salience, e.g..
the notion of nuclearity in 'Rhetorical structure theory' (RST,
Mann/Thompson 1988), or the distinction between coordinating and
subordinating relations in 'Segmented Discourse Representation Theory'
(SDRT, Asher/Lascarides 2003).
- The semantics of definite descriptions and pronouns have been analyzed in
terms of salience, for instance by Lewis (1979).
- Other tasks of language processing, such as word-sense disambiguation or
metaphor processing (e.g., Giora and Fein 2004), are sometimes modelled
with salience-inspired approaches.

Attendance:
Following the tradition of the earlier workshops, attendance will be
limited to 30 people. Speakers of accepted papers are automatically granted
a seat; the remaining ones are assigned on first-come-first-serve basis.

Invited speakers:
In addition to the regular paper sessions, the workshop features the
following invited talks:
- Kristiina Jokinen (Univ. of Helsinki) on salience in language and other
modalities in dialog
- Thomas Noll (TU Berlin) on salience in language and music
- Jon Oberlander (Univ. of Edinburgh) on salience in language and reasoning
- Michael Tanenhaus (Univ. of Rochester) on salience in language and vision

Submission:
Electronic submissions (PDF format) are strongly preferred. Papers should
not be longer than eight pages (including figures and references), using
11pt font. For the final versions of accepted papers, precise formatting
instructions (for Word and LateX) will be issued.

Send your submission until May 20, 2005 per email to mad05 at ling.uni-potsdam.de

Program Committee:
Jennifer Arnold (Univ. of Rochester, USA)
Salvatore Attardo (Youngstown State University, USA)
Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Michael Grabski (TU Berlin, Germany)
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Univ. des Saarlandes, Germany)
Luuk Lagerwerf (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK)
Manfred Stede (Univ. Potsdam, Germany)
Alice ter Meulen (Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen, NL)

Schedule:
Submission deadline: May 20, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005
Final papers due: August 19, 2005
Workshop: Oct 5-8, 2005

Organizers:
Manfred Stede, Universitaet Potsdam
Michael Grabski, Technische Universitaet Berlin
Luuk Lagerwerf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:00:08
From: Gwangrak Son < gson0 at kyungnam.ac.kr >
Subject: 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar

Full Title: 7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar
Short Title: SICOGG7

Date: 08-Aug-2005 - 11-Aug-2005
Location: Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Contact Person: Myung-Kwan Park
Meeting Email: parkmk at dongguk.edu
Web Site: http://www.kggc.org

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

CALL FOR PAPERS
7th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar
Theme: Ellipsis in Minimalism
Invited Speaker: Jason Merchant (Chicago University)

2005 Summer International Conference on Generative Grammar will be held at
Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, on August 8-11, 2005 organized by the
Korean Generative Grammar Circle (http://www.kggc.org).

Abstracts for the conference are invited from all areas of generative
grammar. Topics of the abstracts may include syntactic theory,
syntax-semantics Interface, syntax-morphology interface, syntax-phonology
interface, syntactic acquisition, and others. The conference will consist
of the general session, the poster session, and a series of lectures from
the invited speaker, Jason Merchant (Chicago University), who will address
several core issues on ellipsis developed within the theoretical background
of Minimalism. The idea of the poster session is to discuss the
work-in-progress that have not completely matured for a full publication yet.

Abstracts should be anonymous and may not exceed 2 pages (A4), including
examples and references, with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margin on all four sides and
should employ the font Times New Roman 12 pt. Submissions are limited to a
maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. Please send a
separate file containing the following information: the title of the paper,
the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number, and the
preferred session (general or poster). Abstracts should be sent
ELECTRONICALLY as Word or PDF attachments to Sun-Woong Kim at
swkim at kw.ac.kr no later than March 31, 2005.

Abstracts will be reviewed by readers, and authors will be notified by
April 30, 2005. Each speaker of the general session will be alloted 20
minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Accepted papers will be published
in the proceedings of 2005 Seoul International conference on Generative
Grammar, which will be distributed to the conference participants. All
presenters will be asked to provide camera-ready copies of their papers in
publishable form by July 15, 2005. The text should be single-spaced and the
general page limit is 20 pages including appendices and references.

All the information about the conference is available on our website
(http://www.kggc.org). Participants are asked to check this web page to keep
up to date regarding possible alterations and changes. Additional questions
concerning the conference are asked to be sent to the Secretary in General
Myung-Kwan Park at parkmk at dongguk.edu.

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