LINGUIST List 22.4453 Tue Nov 08 2011 Calls: Discourse Analysis/ Dialogue and Discourse (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.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.     Stefanie Dipper , Final Call for Papers: Dialogue and Discourse Message 1: Final Call for Papers: Dialogue and Discourse Date: 08-Nov-2011 From: Stefanie Dipper <dipperlinguistics.rub.de> Subject: Final Call for Papers: Dialogue and Discourse E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Dialogue and Discourse Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2012 Final Call for Papers Special issue of 'Dialogue and Discourse' on: 'Beyond semantics: the challenges of annotating pragmatic and discourse phenomena'. Please find the full call at http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~dipper/specialIssue.html. Guest Editors - Stefanie Dipper, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany - Heike Zinsmeister, Konstanz University, Germany - Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh University, UK Important Dates - Nov 15 2011: Expression of interest, three-page abstract - Feb 1 2012: Submission deadline, full papers - April 5 2012: Notification of acceptance - May 15 2012: Final versions due - June 15 2012: Publication (tentative date) Topics of Interest The topic of the special issue is 'Beyond semantics: the challenges of annotating pragmatic and discourse phenomena'. The focus is on the problems and challenges that are specific to annotating phenomena that are 'beyond semantics', i.e., pragmatic and discourse-related phenomena (e.g. anaphoric reference, information structure, discourse relations, discourse function, presupposition, subjectivity). We see it as an important desideratum to promote the application of linguistic theories to naturally-occurring texts. This would enhance the search for operationalization of theoretical concepts, which probably then can be annotated with higher reliability. It would open up corpus-based development and validation of theoretical hypotheses. At the same time, operationalized theoretical concepts and reliable annotations would facilitate the use of pragmatic and discourse-related knowledge in computational linguistics. The overall guiding question of the special issue is: How do we annotate abstract pragmatic and discourse information? Such information is frequently not marked explicitly or unambiguously in natural language. It is usually dependent on context information, and annotators often have to reconstruct complex relations and situations from the context. Intuitions about pragmatic or discourse analysis tend to be less stable and more subjective than intuitions about syntactic or semantic phenomena. Example questions that we would like to see addressed in the special issue are: - In annotating texts, which methods are applied? For instance, to what extent are linguistic concepts replaced by surface proxies? - To what extent does the format of annotation (different layers vs. one layer only) influence the annotation task? - What kind of instructions are given to the annotators: Do they have to generalize from a set of given examples? Are they given a formal definition, whose applicability they are assumed to always test before choosing a particular label? Are there linguistic tests to guide the annotation? The idea is to gather research that reports on the generation (and exploitation) of corpora that are annotated with pragmatic or discourse-related information grounded in linguistic theory. Submission For submission details, see the full call at http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni- bochum.de/~dipper/specialIssue.html. Reviewing Committee - Maria Averintseva-Klisch (Tuebingen University) - Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Oslo University) - Klaus von Heusinger (Stuttgart University) - Ralf Klabunde (Ruhr-University Bochum) - Valia Kordoni (DFKI GmbH and Saarland University) - Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia University) - Massimo Poesio (Universities of Essex and Trento) - Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University) - Angelika Storrer (TU Dortmund) - Michael Strube (HITS Heidelberg) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Nov-2011       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.