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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:24:58
From: Annette Hautli-Janisz [annette.hautli at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Why Indeed? Questions at the Interface of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics

 
Full Title: Why Indeed? Questions at the Interface of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics 
Short Title: QuestionsDGfS2018 

Date: 07-Mar-2018 - 09-Mar-2018
Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact Person: Tatjana Scheffler
Meeting Email: tatjana.scheffler at uni-potsdam.de
Web Site: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/dgfs18/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 26-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

`Why Indeed? Questions at the Interface of Theoretical and Computational
Linguistics'

Workshop at the 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)

Workshop organizers: Annette Hautli-Janisz (Konstanz), Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli
(Konstanz) and Tatjana Scheffler (Potsdam)

Date: March 7-9, 2018
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Homepage: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/dgfs18/

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for joining formal theoretical
work on the linguistic structure of questions with computational approaches
targeted at question classification, interpretation, processing, or
generation. Our goals are two-fold: On the one hand, we aim to promote
theoretical linguistic investigations of questions that are amenable to
computational formalization. On the other hand, we are interested in
computational analyses of questions and NLP systems that make use of existing
linguistic insights or shed new light on specific issues regarding the
linguistics of questions.

With the advancement of the digital age and the increasing use of
communication devices, the demand for automatically understanding spontaneous
speech is expanding. A central linguistic phenomenon in human-computer
interaction are questions, posed by the user in response to the system or by
the system itself. Making the communication seem natural requires the system
to be able to distinguish whether a question is purely information-seeking,
structures the discourse or is used rhetorically, among many other functions.
A well-motivated analysis of questions is therefore becoming an important
component of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, not only in
question-answering systems, speech recognition and synthesis, but also in
machine translation scenarios.

However, to date questions are an under-resourced and under-investigated
phenomenon in computational linguistics. The challenges are multifold: First,
there is no unified definition of what is considered a question. Second,
questions and their classification into different types (e.g.
information-seeking versus rhetorical) can be hard even for humans. Third, it
is not immediately clear how computational models can capitalize on recent
theoretical linguistic advances on questions, for example in prosody, syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for
joining formal theoretical work on the linguistic structure of questions with
computational approaches targeted at question classification, interpretation,
processing, or generation. Our goals are two-fold: On the one hand, we aim to
promote theoretical linguistic investigations of questions that are amenable
to computational formalization. On the other hand, we are interested in
computational analyses of questions and NLP systems that make use of existing
linguistic insights or shed new light on specific issues regarding the
linguistics of questions.

Topics include, but are not limited to: Formal theoretical approaches to the
linguistic structure of questions; the applicability of formal-linguistic
definitions and analyses of the notion of ''question'' in NLP applications;
models for representing questions in computational applications; the automatic
detection of questions in different types of corpora; the automatic
classification of questions; question annotation and corpus linguistic
approaches to questions, both across and within languages. We particularly
invite work which uses data other than textual data, for instance spoken or
sign language data, advancing the field in a broader manner and allowing for a
more holistic view on questions across linguistic subfields.


Final Call for Papers:

Authors should submit 1 page abstracts (including references) in a 12 point
font (e.g. Times New Roman). Talks will be given 30 or 60 minute slots
including discussion, depending on the program. Please specify your preferred
length in your submission. The workshop language is English for both abstracts
and talks. According to DGfS regulations, speakers can only present a paper in
one workshop. Please submit your abstracts to the following page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=questionsdgfs2018

Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: August 26, 2017
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2017
Workshop: March 7-9, 2018




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