Category: corpus linguistics

CFP | KESA 2015 | April 19 – 24, 2015 – Barcelona Submission deadline November 24, 2015

CFP | KESA 2015 | April 19 – 24, 2015 – Barcelona, Spain
KESA 2015, The International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Annotation

Through LinkedIn Corpus linguistics Group

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to KESA 2015.
The submission deadline is November 24, 2014.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article
versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

============== KESA 2015 | Call for Contributions ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

KESA 2015, The International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Annotation
April 19 – 24, 2015 – Barcelona, Spain

General/submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/KESA.html

Contribution types;
regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Submission deadline: November 24, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

KESA 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see on the site)

Shallow knowledge extraction from large collections
Knowledge and ontology management
Knowledge acquisition from unstructured data
Concepts and standards for semantic annotation
Ontology learning
Semantic knowledge
Mining for topic annotation
Context and semantic annotation
User-centric semantic annotation
Semantic retrieval and annotation
Linguistic Linked Open Data
Methods in text and data mining
Interactive image searching
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KESA 2015 Co-Chairs
Maria Pia di Buono, University of Salerno, Italy
Mario Monteleone, University of Salerno, Italy
Annibale Elia, University of Salerno, Italy
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LCR 2015 Call for Papers & book of abstracts

LCR 2015 Call for Papers

@LCR2015

Following the successful initial conference in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, and the second conference in Bergen (Norway) in 2013, the third conference in this biannual series will be hosted by Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from September 11-13, 2015. See the conference
website http://www.ru.nl/lcr2015/  for more details.

The conference is organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association

Conference Venue
Van der Valk Hotel Cuijk – Nijmegenhttp://www.hotelcuijk.nl/en

Organising committee
Pieter de Haan
Rina de Vries
Sanne van Vuuren
Ans van Kemenade
Jacqueline Berns

Programme committee chairs
Marcus Callies (Universität Bremen)
María Belén Díez-Bedmar (Universidade de Jaén)
Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain)
Hilde Hasselgård (Universitetet i Oslo)
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (Universitetet i Oslo)

Confirmed keynote speakers
Kees de Bot (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Universität Wien)
Janine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading)

We welcome papers that address all aspects of learner corpus research, in particular the following ones:
–       Corpora as pedagogical resources
–       Corpus based transfer studies
–       Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora
–       English as a Lingua Franca
–       Error detection and correction of learner language
–       Extracting language features from learner corpora
–       Innovative annotations in learner corpora
–       Language for academic / specific purposes
–       Language varieties
–       Learner corpora for less commonly taught languages
–       Learner Corpus Research and the Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages (CEFR)
–       Links between learner corpus research and other research methodologies
(e.g. experimental methods)
–       Search engines for learner corpora
–       Statistical methods in learner corpus studies
–       Task and learner variables

There will be three different categories of presentation:
–       Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
–       Work in Progress (WiP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion)
–       Corpus/software demonstration
–       Poster

The Work in Progress reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. The conference aims to be a showcase for the latest developments in the field and will feature both software demos and a book exhibition.

The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts
Your abstract should be between 600 and 700 words (excluding a list of references). Abstracts should typically provide the following:
–       a clearly articulated research question and its relevance;
–       the most important details about research approach, data and methods;
–       the main results and their interpretation.

Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcr2015  by 31 January 2015.

Please follow instructions provided on the conference website.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the programme committee.

Notification of the outcome of the review process will be sent by 15 March 2015.

Nov 10 CFP ENGCORPORA2015 Extended deadline

This Conference is intended as a gathering for corpus linguists working on any aspect of the English language and concerned with corpora issues. The main issues that this conference aims at debating are:

– the use and reliability of a corpus in the hypothesis-building process

– the use of corpora in linguistics courses or in language courses

– How corpora can advance research into the diversity of “Englishes” and the question of norms.

Keynote Speaker: Mark Davies

More information on: http://engcorpora2015.sciencesconf.org/

To Submit your proposal go to : http://engcorpora2015.sciencesconf.org/

Reach the organizers by sending a mail to: engcorpora2015@sciencesconf.org

Measuring ling. complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective

Update

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The Linguistics Research Unit of the Institute of Language and Communication hosted a workshop on ‘Measuring linguistic complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective’ on Friday 24 April, 2015. 

The main objective of the workshop were to bring together specialists from a number of different but related fields to discuss the construct of linguistic complexity and how it is typically measured in their respective research fields. 

The event was structured around keynote presentations by five distinguished scholars:

  • Philippe Blache (CNRS & Universite d’Aix-Marseille, France): Evaluating complexity in syntax: a computational model for a cognitive architecture
  • Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium): L2 complexity – A Difficult(y) Matter
  • Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University): The question of linguistic complexity: historical perspective
  • Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK): Automatic Text Simplification and Linguistic Complexity Measurements
  • Benedikt Szmrercsanyi (KULeuven, Belgium): Measuring complexity in contrastive linguistics and contrastive dialectology

A round table closed the workshop.

Details about the event are available on the workshop website: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-linguistic-complexity.html

The number of participants is limited. Participation is free of charge but registration is required before Friday 3rd April (via our registration form at http://www.uclouvain.be/en-505315.html). 

Thomas François (Centre de traitement automatique du langage) & Magali Paquot (Centre for English Corpus Linguistics)

Conclusions

A multidimensional construct: Bulté & Housen (2012:23)

Shared challenges, shared oportunities

Where is the place of theory here?

Do we need new measures? Do we ned to validate existing ones?

The many facets of complexity.

Formal linguistics may be a good starting point but don’t have much to offer.

Building a research community ?

 

Digital natives and corpora in language learning #corpuslinguistics

For digital natives, “research” is more likely to mean a Google search than a trip to the library […] it remains to be seen how corpus resources co-exist with online services like Google and online distionaries and how learners’ search habits behave in both contexts (Pérez-Paredes et al. 2012:484).

Pérez-Paredes, P., Sánchez-Tornel, M., & Alcaraz Calero, J. M. (2012). Learners’ search patterns during corpus-based focus-on-form activities. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 17(4), 483-516.

LINDSEI: the Turkish component

LINDSEI-TR: A New Spoken Corpus of Advanced Learners of English
By Abdurrahman Kilimci

Cukurova University, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to describe the LINDSEI-TR, the Turkish component of the LINDSEI (the Louvain International Database of Spoken English), which was initiated to compile a corpus of spoken data produced by learners from varied mother tongues (Gilquin et al., 2010). In this respect, the main objective of the study is to present the aim, development, and the design criteria of the corpus along with its quantitative and qualitative characteristics. The corpus is considered to be of value to researchers in terms of delineating the features of learners’ spoken interlanguage and designing teaching materials to improve second language teaching and learning.

Keywords: Corpus linguistics, spoken corpus, interlanguage, second language teaching and learning