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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:13:56
From: Polina Eismont [polina272 at hotmail.com]
Subject: Language, Music, and Computing

 
Full Title: Language, Music, and Computing 
Short Title: LMAC-2017 

Date: 17-Apr-2017 - 19-Apr-2017
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia 
Contact Person: Polina Eismont
Meeting Email: polina272 at hotmail.com
Web Site: http://lmac.hf-guap.ru 

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

Call Deadline: 27-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Second International Workshop on Language, Music, and Computing

Organized by: 

- Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation 
- Saint Petersburg State Conservatoire named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov 

Aims of the Workshop: 

To encourage interdisciplinary communication and collaboration of linguists,
musicians and IT-specialists in the sphere of some actual problems, among
which are the following: 

1. Language and music acquisition; influence of music skills on language
acquisition and language processing; influence of linguistic skills on music
acquisition; relationship between music and language training. 
2. Linguistic and music knowledge, their structure and functioning; explicit
and implicit knowledge of music and language; similarities and differences in
understanding of music and language. 
3. Automatic classification of linguistic and music knowledge; formal models
of linguistic and music knowledge; musical information retrieval vs.
linguistic information retrieval. 

This year special topics of the workshop are:

- Formal representation of language and music: differences and similarities
- Sound corpora in music and linguistics

Keynote Speakers: 

1. Sabine Iatridou, USA 
2. Sergi Jordà, Spain 
3. Merryl Goldberg, USA 
4. Elena Riekhakainen, Russia 

Languages of the conference: Russian & English (some sessions will be
simultaneously translated)


Call for Papers:

Submission Process: 

Abstracts from different fields are warmly invited. Presentations will last 20
minutes, followed by a ten minute discussion. Abstracts should be submitted
before November 27, 2016. Notification of acceptance follows on January 20,
2017. Abstracts should be 450-500 words long (without any subheadings) and
clearly present a research question/aim, critical review of the literature,
methodology, results and conclusions. Abstracts should be submitted as a pdf.
If you wish to include any specific symbols (such as phonetic transcription),
please submit your paper both in DOC and PDF format. We have the intention to
select papers for a peer-reviewed special issue. Please send each abstract
both in anonymized and unanonymized forms (with author(s) and affiliation) to
the following address: al at hf-guap.ru. 

Important Dates:
 
Submission deadline: November 27, 2016 
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2017 
Registration starts: February 1, 2017 
Early-bird registration ends: March 15, 2017 
Workshop: April 17-19, 2017
Final papers: June 1, 2017
Results of the revision process: July 25, 2017
Publication: Fall 2017




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