Revised deadline: Call for papers "Sign language corpora: Linguistic issues"

[Adam Schembri]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: REVISED DEADLINE

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.

Increasing numbers of sign language researchers are seeking to create  
large corpora of sign language digital video data. Projects have been  
undertaken or are underway in Australia, France, Greece, Ireland, The  
Netherlands, Spain, 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 theories of language?

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, but will include Onno Crasborn and  
Trevor Johnston).

Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) by email to < abstracts at bslcorpusproject.org 
  > no later than 28th FEBRUARY, 2009. In your message, please  
indicate your preference for the presentation format: spoken/signed  
paper or poster.

Workshop website (more information to follow very soon): 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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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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