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Subject: 30.2807, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:50:57
From: Daniel Knuchel [daniel.knuchel at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: The n-dimensional Culture Space

 
Full Title: The n-dimensional Culture Space 
Short Title: Symposium S175 

Date: 09-Aug-2020 - 14-Aug-2020
Location: Groningen, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Daniel Knuchel
Meeting Email: daniel.knuchel at ds.uzh.ch
Web Site: https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Sep-2019 

Meeting Description:

The n-dimensional culture space: distributional semantic models and discourse
studies

With the availability of digital and digitalized language data more and more
research in the interdisciplinary field of discourse studies rely on corpora.
In order to analyze this amount of language data different digital methods
such as key words and collocations have been used to model meaning in a
Firthian sense. However, besides established corpus linguistic methods there
are also NLP methods to explore semantic relations in language data.

Recently, distributional semantic models (henceforth DSM) gain popularity,
particularly so-called Word Embeddings. DSM are vector representations of
words based on their co-occurrence frequencies with other terms in the corpus.
This leads to an n-dimensional vector space in which the geometric
relationship between words is meaningful for their semantic relationship.
Owing to this we hypothesize that Word Embeddings can approximatively
represent an n-dimensional culture space where a new kind of analysis is
possible for discourse studies.

The possibilities of DSM have been presented in a myriad of ways, however,
their potential for cultural analyses has not been fully exploited. The goal
of our symposium is to provide a new perspective on the combination of
computational approaches, discourse studies and cultural linguistics.
Therefore, we ask for empirical contributions where DSMs have been used for
discourse studies and cultural analysis.

Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer (University of Zurich) will open the symposium with
a keynote.

Organizers: 

Daniel Knuchel (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Dr. Julia Krasselt (University of Applied Sciences Zurich, Switzerland

Featured speaker: 

Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)


Call for Papers: 

You will be asked to indicate which type of presentation you aim for. 
There are three types allowed at AILA 2020: 

- Featured multimodal presentations (BY INVITATION ONLY) 
- Standard multimodal presentations 
- Focused multimodal presentations 

Your submission will need to include the following: 

- Author(s) and affiliation(s) 
- Title: max. 20 Words 
- Abstract: max. 300 Words 
- Summary for in program: max. 50 Words 

The symposium number is S175.

Submit your paper here: https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers




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