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Date: 08-Jun-2010
From: Heike Zinsmeister < Heike.Zinsmeister at uni-konstanz.de >
Subject: Beyond Semantics: Corpus-Based Investigations
 

	
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Subject: Beyond Semantics: Corpus-Based Investigations

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Full Title: Beyond Semantics: Corpus-Based Investigations 
Short Title: beyondsem 

Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011
Location: Goettingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Stefanie Dipper
Meeting Email: beyondsem at linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Web Site: http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus 
Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Aug-2010 

Meeting Description:

Workshop: 'Beyond semantics: Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic 
and
discourse phenomena'

Organizers: Stefanie Dipper (Bochum) and Heike Zinsmeister (Konstanz)
Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German
Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Goettingen, Germany, February 23-
25, 2011 

Call For Papers

In recent years, focus of corpus-based research has moved from morpho-
syntactic phenomena to semantics (e.g. word sense disambiguation, frame 
semantics, predicate-argument structure, temporal structure) and ''beyond'', 
i.e., to pragmatic and discourse-related phenomena (e.g. anaphora, 
information structure). In the latter field, it is often especially hard to transfer 
results from theoretical linguistics that are based on toy examples to 
naturally-occurring texts. Even provided explicit annotation guidelines, it is 
often difficult to annotate texts reliably.

We would like to bring together theoretical linguists who use texts and 
corpora for pragmatic or discourse-related research questions, and corpus 
linguists as well as computational linguists who create and annotate 
relevant corpus resources, or exploit them. The goal of the workshop is to 
enhance exchange between researchers of both fields, and thus to gain 
insight in the -- possibly common -- properties and peculiarities of the 
''beyond'' phenomena.

We invite contributions related (but not limited) to one of the following 
phenomena:
- anaphora
- discourse structure
- information structure
- implicatures and presuppositions
- event structure

Questions that we would like to address include:
- Which results from theoretical linguistics (e.g. frameworks, generalizations)
have been tried to apply to (running) texts? What were the outcomes? Did 
these outcomes affect the theory?
- In annotating texts, which methods are applied? For instance, are there
linguistic tests that guide the annotators? Which tools are used?
- Which generalizations can be derived from existing resources? Which
applications make use of existing resources?

Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting completed work or work in
progress. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the 
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references revealing the 
authors' identity should be avoided. The languages of the conference are 
English and German, however, we encourage to submit papers in English.

Papers must be 8-15 pages, formatted according to the stylefiles provided 
at the workshop's website (which roughly corresponds to 4-8 pages in ACL 
or LREC style). Accepted papers will be published in the workshop 
proceedings, as a special issue of BLA (Bochumer Linguistische Arbeiten).

We also plan to edit a special issue of a journal, with revised versions of
selected papers of the workshops. (More information to come.)

Important dates

August 8, 2010:    Deadline for paper submissions
September 9, 2010: Notification of acceptance
December 1, 2010:  Camera-ready papers for the workshop proceedings 
plus a one-page abstract for the DGfS conference proceedings
February 23-25, 2011: Workshop

Keynote speakers

Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
(Second speaker TBA)

Workshop organizers

Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Heike Zinsmeister, University of Konstanz

Programme committee

Maria Averintseva-Klisch, Tuebingen University
Matthias Buch-Kromann, Copenhagen Business School
Philippa Cook, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Anke Holler, University of Goettingen
Graham Katz, Georgetown University
Katja Markert, University of Leeds
Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen
Marta Recasens, University of Barcelona
Arndt Riester, University of Stuttgart
Julia Ritz, University of Potsdam
Bjoern Rothstein, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Josef Ruppenhofer, Saarland University 
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University 
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam
Yannick Versley, Tuebingen University
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
(to be completed)





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