34.479, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics/Italy

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Subject: 34.479, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics/Italy

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 02:31:27
From: Paola Vernillo [paola.vernillo at unibo.it]
Subject: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa

 
Full Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa 
Short Title: IPAN 

Date: 26-May-2023 - 26-May-2023
Location: Bologna, Italy 
Contact Person: Paola Vernillo
Meeting Email: paola.vernillo at unibo.it
Web Site: https://site.unibo.it/metaphan/en/agenda/ipan-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-anorexia-nervosa 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Mar-2023 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference IPAN
(“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa”), to be held at the
University of Bologna (Italy) on May 26th, 2023, in hybrid (both in-person and
online) format. The conference is centered on the study of AN in its various
aspects, but it particularly focuses on its linguistic profile.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychopathological gendered disorder characterized
by disturbance in eating behavior, which manifests in the form of
dysfunctional routines, such as food deprivation, obsessive weight control,
and compulsive physical exercise. Beyond the disordered eating behaviors, AN
appears to be also characterized by inflexible thinking, rigid habits,
disconnection from the bodily experience, strong sensitivity to praise,
anxiety, and perfectionism. Interestingly, from a very linguistic point of
view, evidence of the linguistic changes characterizing patients with eating
disorders seems to be less clear and the overall picture more blurred.

Despite the fact that in the last decade a growing body of linguistic studies
have been devoted to the investigation of linguistic changes in various
clinical conditions, only a limited number of works have been specifically
conducted on the linguistic profile of patients with eating disorders (ED),
and an even smaller number has specifically focused on AN. This has meant that
not only many issues are still unsolved, but also that several linguistic
aspects of AN happen to be unexplored territory.

“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa” (IPAN) is a conference
aimed at fostering multidisciplinary exchange about research on AN and, more
in general, on eating disorders. It invites contributions from all fields
related to the study of this subject, including (but not limited to)
linguistics, psychology, and medicine.

The conference is open for research on various aspect of eating disorders.
Topics of interest include the following:
- Linguistic profile of AN: morphosyntactic and lexical markers
- Conceptual representation of AN: abstraction deficits and concretism
- Relationship between altered body image and disordered eating
- NLP detection of online pro-ana and pro-mia communities 
- NLP and altered linguistic patterns in AN
- Representation of eating disorders in social media
- Analysis of voice disturbance in patients with eating disorders
 
This conference aims to provide an excellent opportunity to present and
discuss ongoing research on eating disorders, both from theoretical and
experimental viewpoints. Since our main aim is to bring together experts on
ED/AN from different backgrounds and provide an environment for dialogue, we
invite researchers from all related fields to submit abstracts to the
conference.


Call for Papers:

Invited Speakers: 
Laura A. Cariola, The University of Edinburgh

Submissions: 
Abstracts should be submitted, in word/rtf format, with your name,
affiliation, and e-mail address directly to gloria.gagliardi at unibo.it and
paola.vernillo at unibo.it. Abstracts should not be longer than 400 words of text
(excluding references) and should include up to 5 keywords. 
Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion
and will be in English.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at
gloria.gagliardi at unibo.it and paola.vernillo at unibo.it.

Abstract submission opens: February 6th 2023
Abstract submission deadline: March 19th 2023
Registration: Participation at the conference is free of charge, but
registration is compulsory.

Scientific Committee:
Marianna Bolognesi 
Vittoria Cuteri 
Gloria Gagliardi 
Caterina Mauri
Antonia Parmeggiani
Jacopo Pruccoli 
Paola Vernillo

Local Organizers:  
Gloria Gagliardi
Paola Vernillo




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