LINGUIST List 15.660

Sun Feb 22 2004

Calls: Text/Corpus Ling/Discourse Analysis/Hawaii, USA

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  • Kevin Crowston, Minitrack on Genre of Digital Documents, Hawai'i: International Conference on System Science

    Message 1: Minitrack on Genre of Digital Documents, Hawai'i: International Conference on System Science

     Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:50:44 -0500
    From: Kevin Crowston <crowstonsyr.edu>
    Subject: Minitrack on Genre of Digital Documents, Hawai'i: International Conference on System Science


    Minitrack on Genre of Digital Documents, Hawai'i: International Conference on System Science

    Date: 03-Jan-2005 - 06-Jan-2005 Location: Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Big Island, HI, United States of America Contact: Kevin Crowston Contact Email: crowstonsyr.edu Meeting URL: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

    Linguistic Sub-field: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics

    Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Minitrack on Genre of Digital Documents, Hawai'i International Conference on System Science. 3-6 January 2005. Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Big Island, HI. Genres of Digital Documents Part of the Digital Documents Track

    Thirty-eighth Annual HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES

    January 3 - 6, 2005 Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii

    Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/ and http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/

    We invite papers for a Minitrack on Genres of Digital Documents. Document genres are communicative actions with a socially recognized communicative purpose and common aspects of form (such as newsletters, FAQs, and homepages). Such genres are situated in complex communicative practices; they are anchored in specific institutions and processes and can be equally applicable to physical as well as electronic documents. Recognizing the genre of a document is useful because it makes communications more easily recognizable and understandable by recipients and more easily generated by senders. Thus, the study of genres, besides enhancing our understanding of information searching and use, may also provide insights into organizational or community structures.

    As well, it is becoming increasingly clear that the successful use of digital media requires the emergence of new or transformed genres of digital communication. In a digital environment, documents have functionality as well as form and content, but in many ways the contextual clues by which functionality can be ascertained are missing. For this reason, genre provides a certain fixity in communication and becomes increasingly important in providing users a resource for the interpretation of the content, role, and function of a digital document.

    Genre has been extensively studied in applied linguistics, e.g., as an element in language instruction (e.g., Henry and Roseberry 2001; Flowerdew and Dudley-Evans 2002; Sidler 2002). It is also of concern in corpus linguistics, as research attempt to identify and balance the contents of corpa across genres (e.g., Mauranen 1998). Genre has been studied as a socio-linguistic phenomena since the genres used provide insight into the structure and organization of a community (e.g., Miller 1984; Bazerman 1995; Askehave and Swales 2001). Finally, researchers in computational linguistics have developed systems to automatically classify documents by genre based on linguistic features (e.g., Karlgren and Cutting 1994; Kessler, Nunberg et al. 1997; Stamatatos, Fakotakis et al. 2000).

    Suggested topics for the Minitrack include:

    o Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form o The evolution of genres of digital documents o Genre theory and its application to digital documents o Emergent genres o Investigations of genre in use o Analyses of particular document genres o Genres in digital search and classification o Genres in non-text digital documents o Genres for electronic commerce o Designing systems in support of and using genre

    IMPORTANT DEADLINES March 31, 2004 Authors contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content.

    June 15, 2004 Authors submit full papers to the appropriate Minitrack following format and submission instructions on the web site.

    August 15, 2004 Minitrack Chairs send Acceptance/Rejection notices to Authors.

    October 1, 2004 Authors submit Final Version of paper electronically to publisher. At least one author of each paper must register by this date to attend the conference to present the paper.

    December 1, 2004 Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at the conference rate.

    INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION - HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. - Consult the conference website for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-38. - Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. - Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. - Submit your full paper according to the detailed formatting and submission instructions found on the HICSS website. Note: All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references.

    HICSS-38 CONFERENCE TRACKS * Collaboration Systems and Technology - Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker; E-mail: jnunamakercmi.arizona.edu; Co-Chair: Robert O. Briggs; E-mail: bobGroupSystems.com * Complex Systems - Chair: Robert Thomas; E-mail: rjt1cornell.edu * Decision Technologies for Management - Chair: Dan Dolk; E-mail: drdolknps.navy.mil * Digital Documents and the Media - Chair: Michael Shepherd; E-mail: shepherdcs.cal.ca * Emerging Technologies -Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; E-mail: spraguehawaii.edu * Information Technology in Health Care - Chair: William Chismar; E-mail: chismarcba.hawaii.edu * Internet & the Digital Economy - Co-Chair: David King; E-mail: david.kingjda.com Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; E-mail: ardennisindiana.edu * Organizational Systems & Technology - Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: hwatsonterry.uga.edu * Software Technology - Chair: Gul Agha; E-mail: aghacs.uiuc.edu

    HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published.

    For the latest information; visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu or the mirror sites : http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/ and http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/

    CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: spraguehawaii.edu

    Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicsshawaii.edu

    Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennisindiana.edu

    2005 CONFERENCE VENUE Hilton Waikoloa Village (on the Big Island of Hawaii) 425 Waikoloa Beach Drive Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738 Tel: 1-808-886-1234 Fax: 1-808-886-2900 http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com