Call for Participation - Evidentiality, Modality and Corpus Linguistics

[Paola Pietrandrea paolapietrandrea@gmail.com [parislinguists]]

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Call for Participation

*Evidentiality, Modality and Corpus Linguistics *

A workshop of the
*EMEL' 14 International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in
European Languages * (https://www.ucm.es/emel14)


Workshop date:  Madrid, October 7, 2014

Workshop Website:
http://paolapietrandrea.altervista.org/workshop/index-madrid.html

Workshop Convenors : Dylan Glynn (LAPS, University of Paris VIII),
Paola Pietrandrea (University of Tours & CNRS LLL)

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This workshop brings together the research traditions of computational
linguistics, corpus linguistics and typology in the study of modality
(deontic, epistemic, evidential). More specifically, the categorisation /
annotation of the different modal phenomena and the various factors with
which they interact is a fundamental concern for all three approaches.
Collaboration of such concerns cross the theoretical and methodological
divisions and our insights from different perspectives should be to the
benefit of all.

Within the computational tradition, as pointed out by Nissim et al. (2013),
recent years have witnessed the development of annotation schemes and
annotated corpora for different aspects of modality in different languages
(McShane et al. (2004); Wiebe et al. (2005); Szarvas et al. (2008); Sauri
and Pustejovsky (2009); Hendrickx et al. (2012); Baker et al.(2012)). While
there have been efforts towards finding a common avenue for modality
annotation, such as the CoNLL-2010 Shared Task, ACL thematic workshops and
a special issue of Computational Linguistics (Morante and Sporleder
(2012)), the computational linguistics community is still far from having
developed working, shared standards for converting modality-related issues
into annotation categories.

A similar state of affairs holds for the immense quantity of research in
the corpus-driven tradition in modality research where the where
functionally determined annotation schemas have long been the focus of
debate Most of the research in this tradition has focused on the
operationalisation of the manually annotated categories, but recent years
have seen the growth methods that employ inter-coder agreement measures and
predictive statistical modeling. Key references include, but are not
restricted to: Coates (1983); Biber & Finegan (1988, 1989); Aijmer (1997,
2013), Hunston & Thompson (1998); Krug (2000); Nuyts (2001); Mushin (2001);
Tucker (2001); Scheibman (2002); Kärkkäinen (2003), Rizomilioti (2003);
Facchinetti, Krug & Palmer (2003); Paradis (2003); Marín-Arrese (2004);
Martin & White (2005); Simon-Vandenbergen & Aijmer (2007); Hunston (2007);
Englebretson (2007); Cornillie (2007); Narrog (2008, 2012); Divjak (2010);
Diewald & Smirnova (2010a); Boye (2012); Beijering (2012); Deshors (2012);
and Glynn & Sjölin (2014).

In typology, identifying and characterizing the range of modal types and
their marking across the languages of the world is clearly an ongoing and
immensely difficult task, which is leading towards a complete
classification of modal functions and a thorough understanding of the
relations holding between modal categories as well as towards an
understanding of the grammatical vs. lexical nature of modal markers across
languages. One such line of research where the use of corpora is gaining
methodological importance is comparative linguistics. Examples of typology
research in the field include: van der Auwera & Plungian (1998); Johanson &
Utas (2000); Plungian (2001, 2011); Dendale & Tasmowski (2001); Squartini
(2001, 2004); Aikhenvald (2004); Wiemer (2005); Wiemer & Plungjan (2008);
Holvoet (2007); Xrakovskij (2007); Guentcheva & Landaburu (2007), Hansen &
De Haan (2009); Boye & Harder (2009); Mortelmans et al. (2009); Boye
(2010); Diewald & Smirnova (2010b, 2011); Mauri & Sanso’ (2012); and
Abraham & Leiss (2013).


We invited typologists, computational linguists and corpus linguists
working on in the field to join our discussion on the contribution that
corpus analyses can bring to the study of modality.
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