27.3097, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 27.3097, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Morphology, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:32:41
From: Sabine Schulte im Walde [dgfs-mwe-17 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: The Role of Constituents in Multi-Word Expressions

 
Full Title: The Role of Constituents in Multi-Word Expressions 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Sabine Schulte im Walde
Meeting Email: schulte at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web Site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/dgfs-mwe-17/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on the Role of Constituents in Multi-Word Expressions: An
Interdisciplinary, Cross-Lingual Perspective

The processing and representation of multi-word expressions (MWEs), ranging
from noun compounds (e.g. ''hogwash'' in English, and ''Ohrwurm'' in German)
to particle verbs (e.g. ''give up'' in English, and ''aufgeben'' in German)
has remained an unsettled issue over the past 20+ years.

>From a psycholinguistic perspective the question is how the semantic
transparency of the constituents affects the processing and representation of
the MWE they compose (Libben, 2006; Gagne and Spalding, 2009; Ji et al., 2011;
Marelli and Luzzatti, 2012). For example, the semantic transparency of the
head has been found to affect the processing of noun compounds in English but
not in German, with similar findings contrasting the effects of semantic
transparency in English and German particle verbs (Smolka et al., 2014).

>From a computational perspective the question is how the different types of
constituents (i.e., modifiers vs. heads, particles vs. verb stems) influence
the automatic prediction of semantic transparency, as typically addressed by
vector space models relying on the distributional hypothesis and empirical
co-occurrence information from large corpora (Reddy et al., 2011; Bell and
Schaefer, 2013; Salehi and Cook, 2013; Schulte im Walde et al., 2013; 2016).

Invited Speakers:

Gary Libben,
Department of Applied Linguistics, Brock University

Marco Marelli,
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University

Workshop Organisers:

Sabine Schulte im Walde,
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart

Eva Smolka,
Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz


2nd Call for Papers:

In this workshop, we aim to exploit complementary evidence from noun compounds
and particle verbs to shed light on the interaction of constituent properties
and compound transparency. We invite research contributions across languages
and across research disciplines to provide a cross-linguistic perspective
integrating linguistic, psycholinguistic, corpus-based and computational
studies. 

Relevant aspects include (but are not restricted to):

- Investigations on the role of constituent ambiguity 
- Conditions for analogies and meaning shifts 
- The age at which children are affected by constituent transparency 
- Evidence from neologisms 
- Empirical constituent properties (e.g. frequency and productivity) 

Abstract Submission: 

Abstracts may consist of up to 500 words (max. 1 page), plus additional
material such as tables, figures and references on a second page. An extra
page should list all authors and their affiliations. 

Abstracts should be submitted as PDF via EasyChair at: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgfsmwe17. 

The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2016.




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