36.3775, Calls: Digital Studies in Language and Literature - "Special Issue: Kicking the Metaphorical Bucket? Computational Approaches to Multi-word Expressions in Verse" (Jrnl)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3775. Tue Dec 09 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.3775, Calls: Digital Studies in Language and Literature - "Special Issue: Kicking the Metaphorical Bucket? Computational Approaches to Multi-word Expressions in Verse" (Jrnl)

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Date: 08-Dec-2025
From: Victoria B Fendel [victoria.fendel at lmh.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: Digital Studies in Language and Literature - "Special Issue: Kicking the Metaphorical Bucket? Computational Approaches to Multi-word Expressions in Verse" (Jrnl)

Journal: Digital Studies in Language and Literature
Issue: Kicking the Metaphorical Bucket? Computational Approaches to
Multi-word Expressions in Verse
Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2025

This Digital Studies in Language and Literature Special Issue invites
original contributions on the linguistic definition, and computational
identification and discovery of multi-word expressions in all types of
verse with a specific focus on low-resource languages, including
corpus languages, minority languages, or endangered languages, without
any constraint on the typology of the language (i.e. we explicitly
encourage those working on non-Indo-European languages to submit).
Verse is said to reflect (a) a poetic license on the part of the
writer, (b) the abundance of metaphors and allusions, and (c) the
imposition of constraints on language usage by metre. Multi-word
expressions are inherently ambiguous, variable, and discontinuous.
Thus,  multi-word expressions in verse pose particular issues to
natural-language-processing inspired initiatives and are therefore
usually omitted from these. However, this does not mean that multiword
expressions do not exist in verse  texts. This Special Issue pushes
the boundaries and explores the discovery, identification, and
analysis of multi-word expressions in verse across periods of time and
across verse texts from a corpuslinguistic perspective and with a
specific  focus on computational approaches to their identification
and discovery.
Guest Editors:
Victoria B. Fendel (University of Oxford):
victoria.fendel at lmh.ox.ac.uk
Elena Squeri (Sapienza – University of Rome): elena.squeri at uniroma1.it
Special Issue Information:
This DSLL Special Issue is calling for submissions on the theme
“Computational approaches to multi-word expressions in verse”.
Submissions may address a range of contexts and topics, including but
not limited to:
 - Annotation frameworks for multi-word expressions in verse (we are
very interested in grassroots initiatives!)
 - Tools for the identification and/or discovery of multi-word
expressions in verse (we do not impose any limitations on the
computational environment!)
 - Verse texts in Natural-Language-Processing applications
 - Sociotechnical approaches to multi-word expressions in verse
 - Genre/register/style-related uses of multi-word expressions in
verse
 - Multi-word expression processing in verse in low-resource languages
(we are very interested in language documentation work!)
 - Sociolinguistic approaches to multi-word expressions in verse
 - Psycholinguistic approaches to multi-word expressions in verse
 - Typological approaches to multi-word expressions in verse
 - Multi-word expressions in stories and from a narratological
perspective
Submission Instructions:
Proposed abstracts should be submitted through the ScholarOne. During
submission, please select the article type for your proposed paper and
upload the abstract as the
‘Main Document’ in step 2, ‘File Upload’. Abstracts should be ca. 500
words in length and describe previously unpublished empirical or
conceptual work. Please include an indication of where you will
deposit datasets, codebases, anonymized participant data, etc. if the
proposal is accepted. Please do not include author name(s) in the
abstract document. In a separate
document, include each author’s name, affiliation, contact
information, and a 50-word biographical statement. Authors whose
abstracts are accepted will be invited to submit full-length articles
(up to 8,000 words). Submissions are handled through the ScholarOne.
All submissions should be formatted following DSLL’s Instructions for
Authors and will undergo double-anonymized peer review. Please note
that abstract acceptance does not guarantee final acceptance after
peer review.
Timeline:
 - Abstracts due to guest editor: 31 December 2025
 - Short-listed abstracts announced: 15 January 2025
 - Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 April 2026
 - Peer review completion: 15 June 2026
 - Final revisions due: 30 October 2026
Articles are published online as DOI citable articles prior to issue
publication for quickest possible visibility for the scientific
community.
General information on Digital Studies in Language and Literature
Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL) is a peer-reviewed,
interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing research on the
intersection of digital technology,
language, and literature. Accepted articles will be published via
fully sponsored Open Access through a Creative Commons Attribution
(CC-BY-4.0) License, so your research will be freely available for all
to read and download.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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