LINGUIST List 17.1585: Syntax/Germany;Computational Ling/USA

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Wed May 24 2006 Calls: Syntax/Germany;Computational Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Anja Wanner, Syntactic Variation and Emerging Genres - Section of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society 2. Elias Ponvert, Texas Linguistics Society 10 Message 1: Syntactic Variation and Emerging Genres - Section of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society
Date: 22-May-2006 From: Anja Wanner <awannerwisc.edu> Subject: Syntactic Variation and Emerging Genres - Section of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society Full Title: Syntactic Variation and Emerging Genres - Section of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society Short Title: DGfS Date: 28-Feb-2007 - 02-Mar-2007 Location: Siegen, Germany Contact Person: Anja Wanner Meeting Email: awannerwisc.edu Web Site: http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~awanner/dgfs2007.htm Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2006 Meeting Description: This workshop, co-organized by Heidrun Dorgeloh (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf) and Anja Wanner (University of Wisconsin-Madison), is an integral part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). It will explore the question of how syntactic variation is linked to the context of genre and, more specifically, how such variation can be studied with view to contexts of constantly changing and emerging genres. This workshop, co-organized by Heidrun Dorgeloh (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf) and Anja Wanner (University of Wisconsin-Madison), is an integral part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). The conference includes plenary talks and parallel thematic workshops. Modern genre theory emphasizes the importance of genres as typified utterances that share a set of communicative purposes, emerging and developing through repeated use in similar situations. For some registers a trend towards ''genrefication'' has been observed. Cases in point are the standardization of review processes and other performance assessments in academic and administrative discourse, or the emergence of new patterns of style in newspaper language. We would like to explore in this workshop the question of how syntactic variation is linked to the context of genre and, more specifically, how such variation can be studied with view to contexts of constantly changing and emerging genres. How and when do new genres emerge, and how does syntactic variation reflect or contribute to that process? Studies that fall into the scope of this proposal include: - sociolinguistic studies of different registers - corpus studies of emerging genres or constructions - studies focusing on the link between syntax and pragmatics We primarily invite empirical work, but there should also be space for discussing more theoretical issues, in particular of how to incorporate variation according to genre into theories of grammar. We hope to bring together insights from different approaches to syntactic variation (corpus linguistics, construction grammar, historical and synchronic pragmatics, genre theory), unified by the connection they make between linguistic form and communicative purpose. One-page abstracts (max. 500 words) should be sent by e-mail to the coordinators by July 15, 2006 (as attachment in .doc or .pdf format). Contributors should indicate their name, affiliation, e-mail address under which they can be contacted over the summer, and their DGfS membership status. Please send your abstract to both coordinators at the same time (dorgelohphil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de and awannerwisc.edu). For more information and for updates please visit the workshop website: http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~awanner/dgfs2007.htm Message 2: Texas Linguistics Society 10
Date: 22-May-2006 From: Elias Ponvert <efputs.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Texas Linguistics Society 10 Full Title: Texas Linguistics Society 10 Short Title: TLSX Date: 03-Nov-2006 - 05-Nov-2006 Location: Austin, Texas, USA Contact Person: Elias Ponvert Meeting Email: tlsuts.cc.utexas.edu Web Site: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Description Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2006 Meeting Description: Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages DESCRIPTION The past decade has seen great developments at the intersection of computational linguistics and language documentation, particularly in the focus areas of speech and video recording and transcription, best practices for data collection and archiving, and ontology development. TLSX aims to highlight the application of techniques from computational linguistics to the management and analysis of language data as well as to less-studied languages or less-studied varieties of well-studied languages. The goal of TLSX is to further the state of computational linguistics for less-studied languages by bringing together researchers working at this frontier and providing a forum for the presentation of original research. We anticipate work both from documentary and descriptive linguists interested in improving technologies for linguistic analysis and from computational linguists interested in theoretical issues such as the application of data-driven natural language processing (NLP) techniques to languages for which there exists relatively little digitally-available data. To that end, we invite submissions in the areas of computational analysis and management of linguistic data from less-studied languages. We also welcome submissions relating to the development of computational tools to facilitate such analysis. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): - machine learning in scarce data situations - multilingual grammar and lexicon development - cross-linguistic applicability of NLP methods - active learning - transfer learning - bootstrapping semi-automated annotation - challenges posed by particular languages or phenomena to current NLP methods INVITED SPEAKERS Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin Emily Bender, University of Washington Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin SUBMISSIONS due August 1, 2006 Submitted papers must be no longer than 10 pages and are expected to follow CSLI formatting requirements. For LaTeX and Word templates and further details, see conference website. Notification: September 1, 2006 Meeting URL http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls Email contact tlsuts.cc.utexas.edu ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stephen Hilderbrand, Heeyoung Lyu, Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert (all of UT Austin) Respond to list\|Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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