Call for papers: "Sign Language Corpora: Linguistic Issues" workshop

[Adam Schembri]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are invited for a workshop “Sign language corpora:  
Linguistic issues” to take place at University College London (London,  
England) on 24-25 July, 2009 (immediately following the 2009 Corpus  
Linguistics Conference at the University of Liverpool, England).

Increasing numbers of sign language researchers are seeking to create  
large corpora of sign language digital video data. Projects have begun  
in Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and  
Germany, for example, and more are underway or being planned in other  
parts of the world. This workshop aims to share experiences from  
current work and plans for future work. What are the descriptive and  
theoretical challenges being encountered and what solutions are being  
proposed? What kinds of linguistic data are being collected? What  
linguistic and sociolinguistic factors are being considered in corpus  
design? What standards for linguistic tagging and metadata are being  
used and how can these be improved? What kinds of linguistic research  
questions are being addressed using sign language corpus data? What  
kinds of linguistic evidence can corpora provide? What implications  
does sign language corpus work have for linguistic theory/theories?

We invite abstracts for 30 minute papers or posters on descriptive,  
theoretical and applied linguistic issues in corpus-based approaches  
to sign language research, including the following topics:

     * Linguistic and sociolinguistic issues in building sign language  
corpora
     * Linguistic issues in annotation or for metadata descriptions
     * Reports from linguistic research using corpora
     * Use of corpora in sign language teaching and learning
     * Use of parallel corpora in sign language research, and  
interpreting/translation studies
     * Language documentation, archiving and preservation of sign  
language data
     * Linguistic issues in the development of annotation software and  
automated sign language recognition

Day 1 of the workshop will consist of presentations and posters, while  
day 2 will involve a series of invited talks interspersed with  
discussions on key issues led by discussants (invited speakers and  
discussants are to be confirmed).

Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) by email to < abstracts at bslcorpusproject.org 
  > no later than 15th February, 2009. In your message, please  
indicate your preference for the presentation format: spoken/signed  
paper or poster.

Workshop website: http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/sign-language-corpora-linguistic-issues/

Regards,
Adam

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Adam C Schembri, PhD
Project Director, British Sign Language Corpus Project
DCAL Research Centre
University College London
49 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD United Kingdom
(voice/SMS) +44 (0)7766 242 835
http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html
www.bslcorpusproject.org





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