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eurac.edu>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Corpus-Based Terminology Bozen/Bolzano, February 26-28, 1998 European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Patronage Autonome Provinz Bozen ============= BACKGROUND ============= The motivation to organize this workshop is a project currently in the planning phase at the European Academy Bozen/Bolzano. The main goal of the project is to elaborate a comprehensive Italian/German terminology in the areas of law and administration for the use in South Tyrol by extracting the term pairs from a representative corpus of relevant bilingual texts. A more detailed description can be found here: http://www.eurac.edu/fb1/Projects/catex.htm The objective of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers working on corpus-based terminology and to provide a forum of discussion of the state of the art in this area. The main focus will be on computational methods and technologies covering the following topics: T1: Encoding (multilingual) text corpora T2: Extraction of data/knowledge from text corpora (translation equivalents, concept relations, ...) T3: Terminological data/knowledge representation ================= INVITED SPEAKERS ================= Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, United Kingdoms) Susan Armstrong (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Lynne Bowker (Dublin City University School, Ireland) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany) David Hull (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York) Christian Jacquemin (IUT de Nantes, France) Bernardo Magnini (IRST, Italy) Maria T. Pazienza (University of Roma, Italy) Jordi Vivaldi Palatresi (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain) ======================== PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME ======================== The programme consists of talks given by 11 invited speakers and a pannel discussion about the CATEx project; there will be plenty of time for discussions. A preliminary programme outline is given below: - --------------------------------- Thursday, February 26, 1998 - --------------------------------- 8.30-8.45 Registration 8.45-9.00 Opening 9.00-10.00 General introduction into Corpus-Based Terminology + some on T1 (Lynne Bowker) Break 10.30-12.30 Corpus Encoding for Linguistic Research and Term Detection (Jordi Vivaldi Palatresi) Working with parallel corpora (Susan Armstrong) Lunch 14.30-15.30 (Extraction of Information from Text Corpora) (Ulrich Heid) Break 16.00-18.00 Pannel discussion: The CATEx Project (Werner Aufschnaiter, Johann Gamper, Felix Mayer, Francesco Palermo) 20.00 Workshop dinner - ------------------------------ Friday, February 27, 1998 - ------------------------------ 9.00-10.00 Recognition and Acquisition: Two Interrelated Activities in Corpus-Based Term Extraction (Christian Jacquemin) Break 10.30-12.30 Automatic Terminology Extraction and Alignment from a Parallel Sentence-Aligned Bilingual Corpus (David Hull) Bilingual word alignment and its use for productive lexicon construction (Ido Dagan) Lunch 14.00-19.00 Tour: Tobogganing at the Seiser Alm - --------------------------------- Saturday, February 28, 1998 - --------------------------------- 9.00-10.00 A Domain Specific Terminology Extraction System (Maria T. Pazienza) Break 10.30-12.30 From Terminologoy Extraction to Terminology Representation (Khurshid Ahmad) Use of a Lexical Knowledge Base for Information Access Systems (Bernardo Magnini) Lunch 14.30-15.30 Encoding Linguistic Corpora: Encoding Schemes and a Data Architecture for Linguistic Annotation (Nancy Ide) Break 16.00 Concluding Remarks ===================== CONFERENCE ADDRESS ===================== European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Weggensteinstr. 12/a I - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano phone: +39 - 471 - 306111 fax: +39 - 471 - 306199 ============ SOCIAL EVENTS ============ Informal get-together: An informal get-together will be held on Wednesday evening, February 25 (place will be communicated later to the workshop participants). Workshop dinner: The workshop dinner will take place on Thursday evening, February 26, in a typical restaurant in the city center. Tour "Tobogganing at the Seiser Alm": On Friday afternoon, February 27, we will organize a tour to the Seiser Alm, one of the most beautiful alpine pastures in South Tyrol, where we have the chance of tobogganing. Please, don't forget warm clothes and heavy shoes (we are walking in the snow!). ========================== REGISTRATION INFORMATION ========================== Attending to the workshop (including coffee breaks) is free of charge, however, registration is required. Only a limited number of participants will be allowed. Travel, accommodation, meals and social activities are at the expense of the participant. On request, the accommodation can be organized by the European Academy Bozen/Bolzano. If you are willing to participate, please contact the local organizer. Registration deadline: Monday, February 23, 1998 ====================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ====================== Giovanni B. Flores D'Arcais (University of Padova) Bernhard Eccher (University of Innsbruck) Johann Gamper (European Academy Bozen/Bolzano) Felix Mayer (European Academy Bozen/Bolzano) Alberto M. Mioni (University of Padova) Oskar Putzer (University of Innsbruck) Harro Stammerjohann (European Academy Bozen/Bolzano) Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento) ===================== LOCAL ORGANIZATION ===================== Johann Gamper European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Weggensteinstr. 12/A 39100 Bozen, Italy phone: +49 - 471 - 306114 fax: +49 - 471 - 306199 jgamperMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
kent.edu>CALL FOR PAPERS Politeness theory and language in the mass media This is a call for papers that explore linguistic politeness and social interaction in the mass media. In the introduction to the second edition of Politeness, Brown and Levinson write, "we believe we happen to have stumbled on an area where many orthogonal aspects of social life converge in a set of crucial preoccupations in social interaction." Brown and Levinson state that politeness is at the heart of those preoccupations. While there have been numerous studies of linguistic politeness since Brown and Levinson's original paper, there has been little attention paid to politeness theory in discussions of language in the mass media. We believe that the mass media provide a unique yet ubiquitous arena through which to explore linguistic politeness because of the often ambiguous nature of social interaction in the mass media. It is our interest in the nature of social interaction in the mass media that provides the impetus for this book project. We also believe there is a need for theories of media discourse based on sociolinguistic perspectives. We are seeking original essays to include in a book volume that examines aspects of linguistic politeness based on data collected from the mass media. We would especially like to encourage submissions based on data from languages other than English. The intended audience of the book will be undergraduates,graduate students, and scholars in the areas of sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, linguistic pragmatics, ethnography of communication, sociology and communications. Please forward an indication of interest and a one-page abstract of the proposed contribution by April 30, 1998 to: Prof. Troi Carleton 1200 Holloway Drive, Department of English, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, e-mail: troiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue