29.1281, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/Australia

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Subject: 29.1281, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/Australia

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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:44:10
From: Kristin Stock [k.stock at massey.ac.nz]
Subject: Corpus in GIScience: Going Beyond Butterfly Collecting

 
Full Title: Corpus in GIScience: Going Beyond Butterfly Collecting 

Date: 28-Aug-2018 - 31-Aug-2018
Location: Melbourne, Australia 
Contact Person: Kristin Stock
Meeting Email: K.Stock at massey.ac.nz
Web Site: http://www.spur.uzh.ch/de/veranstaltungen/workshops/2018/Corpus-in-GIScience-Going-Beyond-Butterfly-Collecting.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

With the increasing availability of unstructured and semi-structured text data
in the form of user-generated content and digitized corpora, GIScience is
actively exploring the potential of these data to answer questions ranging
from traditional to cutting-edge. Interestingly, the word ''corpus'' is seldom
used in this research.  ''Collection'' is the preferred term.  As the range of
questions addressed through various corpora expands, it is high time for the
GIScience community to gain an overview of emerging work as well as reflect
upon a number of important corpus-related questions, such as: Aren't we
''butterfly collecting''[1] at best and being opportunistic at worst? Do
concepts such as ''language in use'' and ''representativeness'' matter or
should we take a pragmatic approach and only ask, ''is corpus A good for task
B''?

The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of existing (types of)
corpora, outline key methods and research questions addressed through text
corpora in GIScience, as well as discuss the importance of aspects such as
corpus characteristics or representativeness.


Call for Papers:

The scope of the workshop includes the following:

- Characteristics of existing geospatial and general corpora (including the
Web as a corpus, digitized corpora, etc.)
- Corpus-building strategies and frameworks
- Making a corpus publicly available: tools and pitfalls
- Methods for spatial and thematic exploration of a corpus (geographic
-information retrieval and beyond)
- Development of spatial markup languages
- Approaches to annotation of large corpora (including crowdsourcing)
- Areas of application of corpus-based and –driven research in GIScience (e.g.
from environmental monitoring to the investigation of variation in the use of
spatial language)

[1] Chomsky’s famous critique of corpus linguistics (Chomsky, N. 1979.
Language and Responsibility: Based on Conversations with Mitsou Ronat. New
York: Pantheon. Translated by John Viertel, p.57)

Submissions:

We invite contributions discussing (early) ongoing work relevant to one or
more of the topics listed above. Submissions should be between 6 - 8 pages in
length, should follow the GIScience 2018 formatting guidelines and should be
submitted in PDF format through EasyChair (link for submission:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=corpusingiscience201). All submissions
will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and accepted papers
will be included in the GIScience digital conference proceedings. The deadline
for submissions is April 28, 2018. Decisions regarding acceptance will be
provided to authors by May 29, 2018.




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