27.2337, Calls: Computational Ling, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 27.2337, Calls: Computational Ling, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 15:44:40
From: Carolin Odebrecht [carolin.odebrecht at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Encoding Language and Linguistic Information in Historical Corpora

 
Full Title: Encoding Language and Linguistic Information in Historical Corpora 

Date: 08-Mar-2017 - 10-Mar-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Kerstin Eckart
Meeting Email: kerstin.eckart at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web Site: https://hu.berlin/DGfS2017AGOdebrechtEckart 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

Historical corpora have been established as an empirical digital base for
various types of linguistic studies. The corpora are based on texts (sometimes
images) and often require special information encodings, e.g. transcription
and normalization. With respect to corpus linguistics as a method, annotating
a (historical) corpus is always a matter of interpretation, either of its
structure or of its content, and need not be universally consensual.
Additionally, annotations have to balance between a diplomatic representation
of historical texts and its linguistic analysis. This requires a linguistic
modelling of annotations to develop (i) annotation guidelines, standardized
and customized ones, (ii) annotation concepts, such as spans, trees or graphs,
(iii) annotation assignment methods, and (iv) corpus architectures. This
working group would like to ask which methods of annotation have proven
successful in order to address the balancing of historical diplomatic
representation and linguistic analyses in historical, corpus-linguistic
studies. Additionally, we would like to learn from cases, where common
linguistic annotations are not sufficient for the structured exploration of
the historical corpus data, and where new approaches address these
requirements.

This workshop would like to bring together linguists interested in and using
historical corpora, corpus linguists, and computational linguists.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 30 minutes talks (20 min presentation + 10 min
discussion) on these aspects but are not limited to:

- The interplay between corpus architecture, annotation decisions and
reusability of the research data.
- The applicability of manual or automatic annotation: effects of corpus size,
tag sets, error types, and methods of information retrieval.
- Methods for the exploration of annotated corpora (e.g. combination of
annotation concepts, search for and interpretation of annotations).

Submissions for the working group (DGfS Kurz-AG) should comprise an abstract
of max. 1 DIN A4 page in Times New Roman, pt. 12, 1,5 line spacing, including
references which should conform to the guidelines of the ‘Zeitschrift für
Sprachwissenschaft’. 

Please send the abstracts in Word-format (doc, docx) or in PDF to
kerstin.eckart at ims.uni-stuttgart.de.

Deadline for submission: 16.8.2016 
Notification of acceptance: 1.9.2016 

We are looking forward to seeing you at the DGfS 2017!

Kerstin Eckart and Carolin Odebrecht




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