21.3235, Calls: Comp Ling, lang Doc/USA

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Subject: 21.3235, Calls: Comp Ling, lang Doc/USA

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Date: 09-Aug-2010
From: Sebastian Nordhoff < sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de >
Subject: Electronic Grammaticography

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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:48:40
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de]
Subject: Electronic Grammaticography

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Full Title: Electronic Grammaticography 

Date: 12-Feb-2011 - 13-Feb-2011
Location: Hawaii, USA 
Contact Person: Sebastian Nordhoff
Meeting Email: sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de
Web Site: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-
grammaticography2011 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2010 

Meeting Description:

This colloquium will bring together field linguists, computer scientists,and 
publishers with the aim of exploring production and dissemination of 
grammatical descriptions in electronic/hypertextual format. It will be held 
under the umbrella of the 2nd International conference on Language 
Description and Documentation (http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011), 
allowing interested researchers to participate and present in both events. 
Registration for ICLDC includes this colloquium. The colloquium will take 
place on the afternoon of the 12th and the morning of the 13th.

Please Note: 

The conference on Electronic Grammaticography previously announced  will 
be relocated from Leipzig to Hawai'i, where it will run as a workshop under 
the umbrella of the 2nd International Conference on Language 
Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC2). ICLDC2 will be held February 
11-13, 2011 at the Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center on the 
University of Hawai'i at Manoa campus. 

The reason for this relocation is that I have received many comments from 
people wanting to attend both events and having them at the same venue 
will make this considerably easier.

Topic and invited speakers remain unchanged. I wish to thank all 
participating institutions and people for making this short-notice relocation 
possible. 

Call for Papers

For long a step-child of lexicography, the domain of grammaticography has 
received growing interest in the recent past, especially in what concerns 
lesser studied languages. At least three volumes contain parts dealing with 
this question (Ameka et al. 2006, Gippert et al. 2006, Payne & Weber 
2007).

At the same time, advances in information technology mean that a number 
of techniques become available which can present linguistic information in 
novel ways. This holds true for multimedial content on the one hand (see 
e.g. Barwick & Thieberger 2007), but also so called content-management-
systems (CMS) provide new possibilities to develop, structure and maintain 
linguistic information, which were unknown when the idea of an electronic 
grammar was first put to print in Zaefferer (1998).

Recent publications in grammaticography often allude to the possibilities of 
hypertext grammars (Weber 2006, Evans & Dench 2006), but these 
possibilities are only starting to get explored theoretically (Good 2004, 
Nordhoff 2008) and in practice (Nordhoff 2007).

This conference will bring together experts on grammar writing and 
information technology to discuss the theoretical and practical advantages 
hypertext grammars can offer. We invite papers dealing with the arts and 
crafts of grammar writing in a wide sense, preferably with an eye on 
electronic publishing. Topics of interest are:

-general formal properties of all grammatical descriptions (GDs) in general, 
and hypertext GDs in particular

-functional requirements for GDs and the responses of the traditional and 
the hypertext approach (cf. Nordhoff 2008)

-discussion or presentation of implementations dealing with the media 
transition from book to electronic publication

-opportunities and risks of hypertext grammars

-integration with fieldwork or typological work

-treatment of a particular linguistic subfield (phonology, syntax, ...) within a 
hypertext description

Presentations will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion.

Invited Speakers
Nick Evans (Australian National University)
Christian Lehmann (Universität Erfurt)
Jeff Good (University of Buffalo)

Submission of Abstracts
(a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing  possible 
tables and references

(b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the
text of the abstract but not the author's name or affiliation. The e-mail 
message to which it is attached should list the title, the author's name, and 
the author's affiliation. Please send the message to the following address:
sebastian_nordhoff AT eva DOT mpg DOT de

(c) Deadline: Note that the deadline is now earlier than announced 
previously!! The abstracts should reach us by THURSDAY, August 31.
Submitters will be notified by FRIDAY, October 01.

References
Ameka, F. K., A. Dench & N. Evans (eds.) (2006). Catching language -
The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing. Berlin, New York: Mouton de
Gruyter.

Barwick, L. & N. Thieberger (eds.) (2006). Sustainable data from digital 
fieldwork. Sydney: University of Sydney.

Gippert, J., N. Himmelmann & U. Mosel (eds.) (2006). Essentials of 
language documentation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Good, J. (2004). 'The descriptive grammar as a (meta)database'. Paper
presented at the EMELD Language Digitization Project Conference 2004.
[paper]

Nordhoff, S. (2007). 'Grammar writing in the Electronic Age'. Paper
presented at the ALT VII conference in Paris.

Nordhoff, S. (2008). 'Electronic reference grammars for typology --
challenges and solutions'. Journal for Language Documentation and 
Conservation, 2(2):296-324.

Payne, T. E. & D. Weber (eds.) (2007). Perspectives on grammar writing. 
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Zaefferer, D. (ed.) (1998). Deskriptive Grammatik und allgemeiner 
Sprachvergleich. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

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