26.3606, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Forensic Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-3606. Wed Aug 12 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.3606, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Forensic Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:03:33
From: Carole Chaski [cchaski at LinguisticEvidence.org]
Subject: TALE: The Association for Linguistic Evidence

Full Title: TALE: The Association for Linguistic Evidence 
Short Title: TALE 2016 

Date: 07-Jan-2016 - 10-Jan-2016
Location: Washington DC, USA 
Contact Person: Carole Chaski
Meeting Email: tale at LinguisticEvidence.org
Web Site: http://www.LinguisticEvidence.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Forensic Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

TALE: The Association for Linguistic Evidence, is an outreach of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence and, as a sister society of the LSA, holds its annual winter meeting with the LSA.

The joint LSA-TALE Symposium this year features forensic phonetics and includes talks by 

Mark Liberman (LDC, University of Pennsylvania) 
William Idsardi (University of Maryland)
Keith Walters (Portland State)
John Baugh (Washington University)

Three sessions have been initiated, and other talks can be added to these sessions. 

Session A: Outreach to the Stakeholders in Forensic Linguistics
Lauren Collister on electronic publishing of scholarship
Abdesalem Soudi on internship programs for students

Session B: Developed and Available Tools for Forensic Linguistics
Lauren Collister on electronic libraries LEGLER and SCALER
Carole Chaski on TATTLER for multilingual text analysis
Abdesalem Soudi and Michael Reddington on video for conversation analysis

Session C: (In)Admissibility of Forensic Linguistics as Scientific Evidence
Laird Kirkpatrick (George Washington University School of Law)
Cameron Hyder (Hyder Law Office)

Call for Papers:

TALE invites abstracts (300-700 words) on the following topics:

- Identification of author, speaker and language
- Classification of forensically-significant texts
- Measurement of textual similarity and intertextual relationships
- Linguistic profiling and forensic dialectology
- Development of corpora for testing of methods in forensic linguistics
- Development of computational tools for forensic linguistics
- Development of protocols for forensic linguistics

Special Sessions (abstracts will be considered for sessions):

A. Outreach to the stakeholders in forensic linguistics
B. Developed and available tools for forensic linguistics
C. The (in)admissibility of forensic linguistics as a science

Abstracts on other topics will also be evaluated.

Abstracts are evaluated for the rigor of the linguistic analysis. The methods must be grounded in current linguistics and empirical. Presentation of cases is not appropriate unless the case illustrates the use of an independently-validated method.

Abstracts are evaluated by blind peer review. Send two copies of the abstract, one that contains authorial identifying information (name, affiliation and email) and the one that does not.

Submitters will be notified on October 1 regarding the disposition of the abstract.
Theme Session Proposals should not exceed 2 pages of A4, and must include: the session title, an abstract, three to five keywords, a list of references, a list of potential presenters, featuring authors names and affiliation and the titles of their papers.

The conveners of the accepted theme sessions are responsible for managing abstract submission and rating for their sessions. 

Accepted Theme Session Proposals will be made available on the conference website on March 1, 2016. Authors whose papers were listed as part of theme sessions may still submit their abstracts to the general sessions, if the theme session is not accepted.

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