28.2502, Calls: Phonetics, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/South Africa

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Subject: 28.2502, Calls: Phonetics, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/South Africa

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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:36:27
From: Tommaso Raso [tommaso.raso at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop Spoken Corpora advances: prosody as the crux of speech segmentation, annotation and multilevel linguistic studies

Full Title: Workshop Spoken Corpora advances: prosody as the crux of speech segmentation, annotation and multilevel linguistic studies 

Date: 02-Jul-2018 - 06-Jul-2018
Location: Cape Town, South Africa 
Contact Person: Tommaso Raso
Meeting Email: tommaso.raso at gmail.com
Web Site: http://icl20capetown.com/images/WorkshopSummaries/31.-Spoken-Corpora-advances.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Workshop  Spoken Corpora advances: prosody as the crux of speech
segmentation, annotation and multilevel linguistic studies to be carried
within the 20 International Congress of Linguistics encourages linguists
currently working with prosody and spoken corpora to submit abstracts for 20
minute presentations.

In the past 15 years, spoken corpora compilation and exploration have seen
expanding possibilities due to methodological advancements in the field. An
aspect that has received increasingly more attention, as well as has reached
significant research results, is prosody identified as the core speech
segmentation device (Du Bois et al. 2000-2005; Cresti and Moneglia 2005;
Izre'el and Rahav 2004; Raso and Mello 2012; Mettouchi et al 2015). 

Additionally, the improvement of acoustic quality of natural environment
recordings and the possibility for text-to-speech alignment have also fostered
expanding venues for the development of diverse corpus-based studies on the
interface between prosody and different linguistic levels (syntax, information
structure, pragmatics) in spontaneous speech (Raso and Mello 2014; Débaisieux
and Martin 2010). This has ensured accurate understanding for previously
tentatively suggested functional interpretations for prosodic units (Croft
1995; Bybee 2010; Chafe 1994; Halliday 1965; Cooper and PacciaCooper 1980;
Selkirk 2005; Selting 2000; Szczepek-Reed 2012). Stemming from the
above-mentioned advancements, an important point of interest is the
comparability of prosodic cues and their consequences for the identification
of speech segmentation across languages. If, on the one hand, prosodically
segmented spontaneous speech corpora are a crucial resource for the study of
phonetic features responsible for signaling boundaries in speech, on the other
hand, specific prosodic studies on boundary features can help the achievement
of (semi)automatic speech segmentation (Swerts 1997; Barbosa 2013; Mertens and
Simon 2013; Barth-Weingarten 2016). In pace with the methodology employed for
other types of corpora annotation, prosody-based annotation is enriched
through inter-rater agreement validation and reliability scores (Oostdijk et
al. 2002), which in turn may correlate to cognitive and perceptual principles
involved in the decoding of prosodic marks by speakers. 

Furthermore, spoken corpora that document spontaneous speech and are a
platform for its study through prosodic parameters seem to be a relevant tool
in the understanding of general speech organization principles in the
languages of the world. Departing from the afore mentioned issues, this
workshop aims at discussing contributions that focus on spoken corpus-based
studies as well as spoken corpora compilation and annotation, taking prosody
as the defining parameter behind speech organization. 

The workshop proposal can be found at:
http://icl20capetown.com/images/WorkshopSummaries/31.-Spoken-Corpora-advances.
pdf

The 20 ICL submission link is:
http://icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts

For further inquiries, please contact the workshop coordinator, Tommaso Raso,
at:

tommaso.raso at gmail.com

Call for Papers:

Authors can now submit abstracts against any of the workshops or individual
topics (i.e. “paper sessions”).

There will also be a poster session at the congress. The abstracts committee
might redirect some paper abstracts to the poster sessions.
Students still working on their PhDs are encouraged to present in this
session, and to indicate in their abstracts that it is for the poster session.

Please read carefully through the Abstract Submission Criteria and Themes
before your submit.

The following topics will be welcome:
- spontaneous speech segmentation
- prosody and spoken corpora compilation
- spontaneous speech prosodic studies
- spoken corpora annotation
- spoken corpora automatic information extraction
- corpus-based linguistic studies in interface with prosody
- crosslinguistic comparisons of prosodic-based units in spoken corpora

Abstract Criteria:

- An abstract can be submitted as an individual paper (in a “paper session”)
or it can be linked to a workshop
- Abstracts should be between 200 to 350 words
- Abstracts should not include any images or diagrams
- As English is the working language of the congress, we regret that we can
only receive abstracts written in English

Workshops may be cancelled, merged, or shortened if insufficient abstracts are
received and accepted in the specific workshop.
Generally, it is expected that delegates would not present more than one
single-authored paper in the conference.
Exceptions will be made in the case of papers with multiple authorships,
invitations to make an additional presentation at a workshop by a workshop
convenor, or senior scholars making an additional presentation with a junior
colleague or student.
There will be a poster session at the conference. Students still working on
their PhDs are encouraged to present in this session. The Programme Committee
might re-direct some paper (oral) abstracts to the poster session.

Submission Guidelines:

- Abstracts can now be submitted through the online submission portal:
https://scatterlings.eventsair.com/PresentationPortal/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=
%2FPresentationPortal%2Ficl2018%2Fabstract
- Authors will be required to create a user account to be able to proceed to
submission.
- It is possible to create and save a draft of the abstract and then return
later to submit.
- Please note that after submission, no changes can be made.

Heading: Please do not type all letters of the heading in capital letters.
Please use sentence case.
Abstract Text: You can prepare your text in MS Word and cut and paste into the
text box, or you can type directly in the abstract text box.
Paragraph breaks: Please use paragraph breaks where necessary

Deadlines:

Now Open: Abstract preparation period
Now Open: Online submission 
24 July 2017: Deadline for abstract submission
31 October 2017: Notification of abstract acceptance

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