LINGUIST List 14.3522

Fri Dec 19 2003

Calls: Text/Corpus Ling/Portugal; General Ling/USA

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    Message 1: XML-Based Richly Annotated Corpora

     Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:35:43 -0500 (EST)
    From: andreas.witt <andreas.wittuni-bielefeld.de>
    Subject: XML-Based Richly Annotated Corpora


    XML-Based Richly Annotated Corpora Short Title: Xbrac

    Date: 29-May-2004 - 29-May-2004 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Contact: Andreas Witt Contact Email: andreas.wittuni-bielefeld.de Meeting URL: http://coli.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/forschung/xbrac/

    Linguistic Sub-field: Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2004

    Meeting Description:

    The workshop aims at bringing together XML experts, both theorists and practitioners, as well as linguists and natural interactivity researchers working on the definition of corpus architectures, annotation and resource exchange schemes and on tools for the use of multilevel and/or multi-layer annotated corpora. It will provide a forum for the definition of requirements for corpus representations and pertaining tools, discussing at the same time case studies from linguistics and natural interactivity research. XML has become a de facto standard for the representation of corpus resources. It is being used for representing speech and text corpora, multimodal and multimedial corpora, as well as, in particular, integrated corpora which combine different modalities. XML-based representations make it easier to work with richly annotated corpora, which include annotations from different levels of linguistic description or from different modalities. A number of tools have also become available, over the last few years, for creating, managing, annotating, querying such corpora and for their statistical exploration.

    Although XML is a useful representation language, its use alone does not solve all the problems and choices with respect to the representation style (e.g. stand-off annotations vs. embedded annotations); these are in turn closely linked with questions of the architecture of richly annotated corpora, such as the following: should information from different levels of linguistic description be represented in separate ''layers'' of the annotation? Should a given information type serve as a grounding for all or some of the others? How to account for interdependencies and interaction between phenomena from different levels of description? How to account for concurrent annotation (one phenomenon, different analyses or theories/approaches)?

    Such questions and the pertaining corpus-architectural considerations interact with at least two more problem areas: on the one hand with the kinds of research questions and of phenomena to be analysed in linguistic and natural interaction research (which may call for certain architectural solutions), and on the other hand with tools for the creation, annotation, manipulation and exploration of XML-based corpora.

    The workshop will attempt to address the interplay between the following research areas:

    1. XML techniques for corpus representation, i.e. : * Standoff annotation vs. embedded annotation; * Use of XML linking standards for language data (XLink, XPointer, XPath); other ways of ensuring relationships between levels, e.g. through naming conventions; * Concepts of layering in corpora annotated at several levels of linguistic description; types of information grouped together vs. distributed over different ''packages'' * Hierarchical vs. flat annotation; * the grounding of annotations (e.g. in XML elements vs. in characters?) and its implications; * techniques for the manipulation of XML-based representations for massively annotated corpora; usefulness and relevance of XQuery.

    2. Levels of linguistic description and their interaction, i.e.: * Examples of richly annotated corpora: reasons for the choice of the annotated levels; linguistic and natural interactivity research questions which can (only) be solved with richly annotated data; * Interaction between levels: new research questions in linguistics and natural interactivity research which can only be addressed because of observation across levels, across modalities, etc. An example is the use of clustering techniques across different levels: e.g. relevant cooccurrences of phenomena from different levels identified via clustering; * Use and usefulness of concurrent annotations in XML-based corpora; an example is concurrent flat and deep syntactic analysis.

    3. Tools for handling richly annotated corpora: Software solutions for, e.g., * corpus creation, transformation, exchange, and validation * interactive annotation; * exploration: query and retrieval, statistical analysis; * corpus management (e.g. wrt. meta-data).

    Tools presented should be positioned with respect to the questions of corpus architecture and with respect to the research directions discussed above under (1) and (2).

    The workshop aims at bringing together XML experts, both theorists and practitioners, as well as linguists and natural interactivity researchers working on the definition of corpus architectures, annotation and resource exchange schemes and on tools for the use of multilevel and/or multi-layer annotated corpora. It will provide a forum for the definition of requirements for corpus representations and pertaining tools, discussing at the same time case studies from linguistics and natural interactivity research.

    Organisers

    * Andreas Witt, Bielefeld University * Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart * Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh * Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh * Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen

    Program committee

    * Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh, UK * Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Henning Lobin, Justus-Liebig-Universit�t Gieen, Germany * Dieter Metzing, Bielefeld University, Germany * Joakim Nivre, V�xj� University, Sweden * Vito Pirrelli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, Italy * Gary Simons, SIL International, Taxas, USA * Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK * Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan * Andreas Witt, Bielefeld University, Germany * Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, Netherlands

    Submissions Authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only full papers will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 8 pages.

    Requirements for Paper Submission:

    * Submissions must be full papers, not extended abstracts. * It is highly recommendedauthors submit papers in the LREC-conference proceedings format (maximum of 8 pages). * Submission in other formats will be accepted (font sizes of 11 or 12 point), however they can be no longer than eight (8) pages including figures, tables, and references, formatted for A4-paper with reasonable margins. * Electronic submission of manuscripts (details in the submission site) is required (PDF preferred, Postscript, and ASCII accepted).

    * An additional title page should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact email address, postal address, telephone, fax and URL as well as five keywords.

    Submission should be sent by email, to andreas.wittuni-bielefeld.de before 15th February 2004.



    Message 2: Symposium About Language and Society--Austin

     Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:25:54 -0500 (EST)
    From: ikedat <ikedatmail.utexas.edu>
    Subject: Symposium About Language and Society--Austin


    Symposium About Language and Society--Austin Short Title: SALSA

    Date: 16-Apr-2004 - 18-Apr-2004 Location: Austin, Texas, United States of America Contact: SALSA Organizers Contact Email: utsalsauts.cc.utexas.edu Meeting URL: http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/index.shtml

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Established in 1992, SALSA is a student-organized annual conference sponsored by the departments of Linguistics, Anthropology, and Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. It has become internationally recognized by graduate students and faculty alike as a prestigious, interdisciplinary venue for presenting cutting-edge work on the relationship of language and culture to society. 2004 keynoe speakers are Susan Ervin-Tripp (University of California, Berkeley), Emanuel Schegloff (University of California, Los Angeles), Jurgen Streeck (University of Texas, Austin), and Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania). The SYMPOSIUM ABOUT LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY--AUSTIN is pleased to announce its 12th annual meeting to be held APRIL 16-18, 2004, at the University of Texas at Austin. �S^We encourage the submission of abstracts on research that addresses the relationship of language to culture and society. Desired frameworks include but are not limited to:

    Linguistic Anthropology Sociolinguistics Ethnography of Communication Language and Identity Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Poetics Language, Media, and Technology Language and Social Interaction Discourse Analysis Conversation Analysis Language Vitality Language Socialization Gesture and Talk in Interaction

    Papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special edition of the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected based on the evaluation of an anonymously written abstract, which may not exceed 600 words. We will accept only electronic submissions.

    SUBMISSIONS Please email your abstract to utsalsauts.cc.utexas.edu, Subject: SALSA 12 Abstract. Please include in the following order: 1. Title of the paper 2. Author's name 3. Author's affiliation 4. Address, phone number, and email address at which the author wishes to be notified 5. A 600-word abstract* 6. A short 200-word abstract* for publication in the conference program 7. Equipment needs (e.g., overhead projector, computer projection, etc.)

    *Please send the abstracts as a Word attachment AND in the body of the email message.

    8. Name your 600-word abstract file as ''LASTNAME.FIRSTINITIAL.LONG'' (e.g. ''BROWN.J.LONG'') and your 200-word abstract file as ''LASTNAME.FIRSTINITIAL.SHORT'' (e.g. ''BROWN.J.SHORT'').

    Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference details: http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/index.shtml

    Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 15, 2004. Late submissions will not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers that are to be published elsewhere. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in mid-February 2004.

    Pre-registration fees will be $20 for students and $40 for non-students, and on-site registration fees will be $25 for students and $45 for non-students. Completed papers must be brought to the conference to be included in the published proceedings.