LINGUIST List 21.3135 Sun Aug 01 2010 Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Heike Zinsmeister, Beyond Semantics: Corpus-Based Investigations Message 1: Beyond Semantics: Corpus-Based Investigations Date: 31-Jul-2010 From: Heike Zinsmeister <Heike.Zinsmeisteruni-konstanz.de> Subject: Beyond Semantics: Corpus-Based Investigations E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Beyond Semantics: Corpus-Based Investigations Short Title: beyondsem Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011 Location: Goettingen, Germany Contact Person: Stefanie Dipper Meeting Email: beyondsemlinguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Web Site: http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 08-Aug-2010 Meeting Description: Workshop: 'Beyond semantics: Corpus-based investigations of pragmatic and discourse phenomena' Organizers: Stefanie Dipper (Bochum) and Heike Zinsmeister (Konstanz) Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Goettingen, Germany, February 23- 25, 2011 Final Call For Papers In recent years, focus of corpus-based research has moved from morpho- syntactic phenomena to semantics (e.g. word sense disambiguation, frame semantics,predicate-argument structure, temporal structure) and ''beyond'', i.e., to pragmatic and discourse-related phenomena (e.g. anaphora, information structure). In the latter field, it is often especially hard to transfer results from theoretical linguistics that are based on toy examples to naturally-occurring texts. Even provided explicit annotation guidelines, it is often difficult to annotate texts reliably. We would like to bring together theoretical linguists who use texts and corpora for pragmatic or discourse-related research questions, and corpus linguists as well as computational linguists who create and annotate relevant corpus resources, or exploit them. The goal of the workshop is to enhance exchange between researchers of both fields, and thus to gain insight in the -- possibly common -- properties and peculiarities of the ''beyond'' phenomena. We invite contributions related (but not limited) to one of the following phenomena: - anaphora - discourse structure - information structure - implicatures and presuppositions - event structure Questions that we would like to address include: - Which results from theoretical linguistics (e.g. frameworks, generalizations) have been tried to apply to (running) texts? What were the outcomes? Did these outcomes affect the theory? - In annotating texts, which methods are applied? For instance, are there linguistic tests that guide the annotators? Which tools are used? - Which generalizations can be derived from existing resources? Which applications make use of existing resources? Submission: For submission details please consult the workshop webpage: http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/beyondsem/ Important dates: August 8, 2010: Deadline for paper submissions September 9, 2010: Notification of acceptance December 1, 2010: Camera-ready papers for the workshop proceedings plus a one-page abstract for the DGfS conference proceedings February 23-25, 2011: Workshop Keynote speakers: Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh Workshop organizers: Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr-University of Bochum Heike Zinsmeister, University of Konstanz Programme committee: Maria Averintseva-Klisch, Tuebingen University Matthias Buch-Kromann, Copenhagen Business School Philippa Cook, Freie Universitaet Berlin Markus Egg, Humbold-Universitaet Berlin Anke Holler, University of Goettingen Graham Katz, Georgetown University Ralf Klabunde, Ruhr-University Bochum Valia Kordoni, DFKI GmbH and Saarland University Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Saarland University Katja Markert, University of Leeds Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen Marta Recasens, University of Barcelona Arndt Riester, University of Stuttgart Julia Ritz, University of Potsdam Antje Rossdeutscher, University of Stuttgart Bjoern Rothstein, Ruhr-University Bochum Josef Ruppenhofer, Saarland University David Schlangen, University of Potsdam Caroline Sporleder, Saarland University Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam Yannick Versley, Tuebingen University Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh For any questions contact : beyondsemlinguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister (workshop organizers) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.