30.2638, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 30.2638, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 22:33:18
From: Dominik Schlechtweg [dominik.schlechtweg at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Empirical Studies of Word Sense Divergences across Language Varieties (Workshop at DGfS 2020)

 
Full Title: Empirical Studies of Word Sense Divergences across Language Varieties (Workshop at DGfS 2020) 

Date: 04-Apr-2020 - 06-Apr-2020
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Dominik Schlechtweg
Meeting Email: dgfs-20-ws at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web Site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/dgfs-20-ws/ 

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

Call Deadline: 26-Aug-2019 

Meeting Description:

Words change their senses not only over time but also across communities,
domains, dialects, registers, and other language varieties (Wieling &
Nerbonne, 2015; Wiese & Pohle, 2016; Del Tredici & Fernandez, 2017; Ferrari et
al., 2017; Hovy & Purschke, 2018; Schlechtweg et al., 2019; i.a.).

An example for a diachronic sense divergence is the German noun ''Vorwort'',
which was mainly used in the meaning of ''preposition'' before ca. 1800 (Paul,
2002; Schlechtweg et al., 2018). Then it rapidly acquired a new meaning
''preface'', which after 1850 has nearly exclusively been used. An example for
a synchronic domain specific sense divergence is the German noun ''Schnee''
(Hätty et al., 2019). In general-language use, ''Schnee'' predominantly refers
to ''snow'', while in the cooking domain the predominant meaning is the
domain-specific ''beaten egg whites''. The German verb ''heben'' is an example
for a dialectal lexical variation (Boberg et al., 2018), as it is used in the
meaning ''to lift'' in standard German, while in the Southern-German dialect
Swabian it is used in the meaning ''to hold''.

The above examples exhibit different predominant word senses with regard to
specific language varieties. While each research field on language variety has
its own tradition to explore word sense divergences, both from a theoretical
and from an empirical perspective, this workshop aims to bring together
interdisciplinary studies on lexical semantic divergences across time,
domains, registers, and further language varieties.

We invite research contributions across languages and across research
disciplines to provide and compare resources, corpus-based empirical evidence
and computational models for divergences in word meanings across language
varieties. Relevant aspects include (but are not restricted to)

- investigations on word sense definition and discrimination;
- corpus-based examples and discussions of lexical sense divergences;
- frequency distributions of word senses across corpora for language
varieties;
- computational models to determine and measure lexical semantic change and
divergence;
- relevance of word sense divergences for theories and applications in
different fields.

Invited speakers:

Barbara McGillivray,
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge,
and The Alan Turing Institute

John Nerbonne,
Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, and Institute for Advanced
Studies, University of Freiburg



Call for Papers:

Abstract submission:

We invite anonymous abstracts of up to 500 words (max. 1 page) for 30-minute
oral presentations (20 minute presentation + discussion).

Abstracts should be submitted as PDF via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgfs20ims

The deadline for submissions is August 26, 2019.

Please note that the regulations of the DGfS do not allow that workshop
participants present more than one abstract in the same or different
workshops, while it is possible to co-author more than one abstract.

Travel grants:

The DGfS offers a limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro each for
accepted contributions by DGfS members without income or with low income.

Workshop organisers:

Dominik Schlechtweg,
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart

Sabine Schulte im Walde,
Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart




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