30.4930, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/France

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Subject: 30.4930, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/France

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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:17:39
From: Darja Fišer [darja.fiser at ff.uni-lj.si]
Subject: ParlaCLARIN II

Full Title: ParlaCLARIN II 
Short Title: ParlaCLARIN II 

Date: 12-May-2020 - 12-May-2020
Location: Marseille, France 
Contact Person: Darja Fišer
Meeting Email: darja.fiser at ff.uni-lj.si
Web Site: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-II 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

Parliamentary data is a major source of socially relevant content. It is
available in ever larger quantities, is multilingual, accompanied by rich
metadata, and has the distinguishing characteristic that it is spoken language
produced in controlled circumstances which has traditionally been transcribed
but is now increasingly released also in audio and video formats. All these
factors require solutions related to structuring, synchronization,
visualization, querying and analysis of parliamentary corpora. Furthermore,
approaches to the exploitation of parliamentary corpora to their full extent
also have to take into account the needs of researchers from vastly different
Humanities and Social Sciences fields, such as political sciences, sociology,
history, and psychology.

A successful first edition of the ParlaCLARIN scientific workshop held at LREC
2018 (https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN) and a follow-up developmental
ParlaFormat workshop held by CLARIN ERIC in 2019
(https://www.clarin.eu/event/2019/parlaformat-workshop) resulted in a good
overview of the multitude of the existing parliamentary resources worldwide as
well as tangible first steps towards better harmonization, interoperability
and comparability of the resources and tools relevant for the study of
parliamentary discussions and decisions.

The second ParlaCLARIN workshop therefore aims to bring together developers,
curators and researchers of regional, national and international parliamentary
debates that are suitable for research in disciplines in the Humanities and
Social Sciences. We invite unpublished original work focusing on the
compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of parliamentary
records as well as linking or comparing parliamentary records with other
datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches,
political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. Apart from dissemination
of the results, the workshop also aims to address the identified obstacles,
discuss open issues and coordinate future efforts in this increasingly
trans-national and cross-disciplinary community.

Call for Papers:

Objective:

Due to the Freedom of Information Acts that are supported by the United
Nations and set in place in over 100 countries worldwide, parliamentary
debates are being increasingly easy to obtain, and have always been of
interest to researchers from a wide range fields in Humanities and Social
Sciences both for the potential influence of their content, and the
specificities of the formalized, often persuasive and emotional language use
in this context. As a consequence, there are many initiatives, on the national
and international levels, that aim at compiling and analysing parliamentary
data. The recent CLARIN-PLUS survey on parliamentary data has identified over
20 corpora of parliamentary records, with over half of them being available
within the CLARIN infrastructure
(https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families/parliamentary-corpora).

Given the maturity, variety, and potential of this type of language data as
well as the rich metadata it is complemented with, it is urgent to gather
researchers both from the side of those producing parliamentary corpora and
making them available, those making use of them for linguistic, historical,
political, sociological etc. research as well as those linking or comparing
them with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos,
political speeches, political campaign debates, social media posts, etc. in
order to share methods and approaches of compiling, annotating and exploring
parliamentary and other political language data in order to achieve
harmonization of the compiled resources, and to ensure current and future
comparability of research on national datasets as well as promote
transnational analyses.

Topics of interest:

Topics include but are not limited to:
- Creation and annotation of parliamentary data in textual, spoken and video
format
- Annotation standards and best practices for parliamentary corpora
- Accessibility, querying and visualisation of parliamentary data
- Text analytics, semantic processing and linking of parliamentary and other
datasets of political language data
- Parliamentary corpora and multilinguality
- Studies based on parliamentary corpora
- Studies comparing parliamentary corpora with other types of political
discourse

Submission & Publication:

We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4
pages) and demo papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral
presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in
online proceedings.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide
essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the
work described in the paper or are a result of your research. Moreover, ELRA
encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services,
etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including
evaluation ones). For contact data, stylesheets, up-to-date details on
submission and the workshop itself, please consult the workshop website.

Submission page: will be communicated by 20 December 2019

Important Dates:

- Paper submission deadline: 14 February 2020
- Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020 
- Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020 
- Workshop date: 12 May 2020

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