LINGUIST List 19.195
Wed Jan 16 2008
Calls: Discourse Analysis,Socioling/USA; Discourse Analysis/Germany
Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz
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1. Andrea
Olinger,
Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
2. Anton
Benz,
Constraints in Discourse III
Message 1: Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
Date: 15-Jan-2008
From: Andrea Olinger <clicgsahumnet.ucla.edu>
Subject: Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
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Full Title: Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture Short Title: CLIC
Date: 22-May-2008 - 24-May-2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Contact Person: Netta Avineri Meeting Email: clicgsahumnet.ucla.edu www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts should be submitted through the CLIC-GSA website (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/abstractsubmit.htm). Please provide the following information:
- Whether the abstract is for a presentation or a poster - The name(s) of the author(s) - The affiliation(s) of the author(s) - The preferred mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address for notification - The title of the paper - Any equipment requirements - An abstract no longer than 500 words - Any additional comments
Abstracts should clearly state the main point or argument of the paper; briefly discuss the problem or research question with reference to previous research and the work's relevance to developments in the field; and may include a short example to support the main point or argument. Conclusions should be stated, however tentative.
Abstracts should be accessible to a wide audience, as they will be reviewed by scholars from a variety of language-related fields, such as anthropology, applied linguistics, education, and sociology. Presentations and posters will be accepted based on reviewers' evaluations of the anonymous abstracts.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Friday, February 15, 2008. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via e-mail in March 2008.
Conference registration is free at the CLIC-GSA website: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/registration.htm
Message 2: Constraints in Discourse III
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Date: 15-Jan-2008
From: Anton Benz <benzzas.gwz-berlin.de>
Subject: Constraints in Discourse III
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Full Title: Constraints in Discourse III Short Title: CID III
Date: 30-Jul-2008 - 01-Aug-2008 Location: Potsdam, Germany Contact Person: Anton Benz Meeting Email: benzzas.gwz-berlin.de Web Site: http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics
Call Deadline: 25-Apr-2008
Meeting Description
Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Interpretation and Generation.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory
We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to: - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc.
The organisers are planning to publish a book based on the contributions to this workshop.
Publication (and workshop) language is English.
Workshop on Constraints in Discourse
http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org
This is the third in a series of workshops entitled ''Constraints in Discourse''.
It is a linguistic commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its sentences. But what exactly are the rules that govern its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. Recent years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations.
Invited Speakers
Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7 Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University Paul Piwek, Open University Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK
Paper Submission
Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, A4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form at the workshop website (http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as ''in paper (...) we show that'').
Important Dates
Conf: July 30th-August, 1st, 2008 Deadline for Submissions: April 25th, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 17th, 2008 Final Abstracts due: July 12th, 2008
Program Committee
Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Laurence Danlos, Universite Paris 7, France Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Paul Piwek, Open Univerity, UK Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands David Schlangen, U Potsdam, Germany Manfred Stede, U Potsdam, Germany Bonnie Webber, U Edinburgh, UK
Organisation
Organisation Committee: Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Markus Egg, RU Groningen, Netherlands Peter Kuehnlein, RU Groningen, Netherlands Gisela Redeker, RU Groningen, Netherlands Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany
Local Organisation
Anton Benz, ZAS Berlin, Germany Manfred Stede, Uni Potsdam, Germany
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