Category: language analysis

1st international conference: Approaches to digital discourse analysis – ADDA 1 Valencia, 19-20 november 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited for the 1st International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis – ADDA 1, which will take place in Valencia, 19-20 November 2015.

This conference aims to bring together researches interested in the analysis of digital discourse from different disciplines, approaches and traditions. Thus, it seeks to foster state-of-the-art debates and discussions on this burgeoning field of research and provide opportunities for multidisciplinary and critical reflection.

Convenors

Patricia Bou-Franch – Universitat de Valencia

Pilar G. Blitvich – University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Confirmed plenary speakers

Jannis Androutsopoulos – Universität Hamburg

Susan C. Herring – Indiana University

Crispin Thurlow – University of Bern

Conference themes

Papers are invited from discourse scholars from different traditions focusing on digital discourse, among others:

· Research methods in digital discourse analysis
· Critical digital discourse analysis
· Micro analysis of digital discourse
· Digital genres
· Discourse and identities in the digital world
· Multimodality and digital discourse
· Conflict in digital discourse
· Cognitive approaches to discourse analysis
· Digital discourse and the professions
· Digital service encounters
· Political discourse in the digital age
· Gender and the digital media
· Digital discourse and education

Submission information

Important dates:

15 January: Deadline for panel proposals

30 January: Notification of acceptance of panel proposals

15 February: Deadline for abstracts submission (including those in accepted panels)

15 March: Notification of acceptance

· Panel proposals:

Panel proposals are invited by 15 January 2015. In order to propose a panel, organizer(s) need to submit the panel title, a description (up to 500 words), and a list of participants (up to 6) along with the titles of their individual presentations. Once the panel is approved, individual presenters should submit their abstracts (before February 15) in order to be reviewed externally. When they submit their individual proposals, panel participants should mention the title of the panel they are contributing to. Panel organizers would need to make sure that all panel participants submit their proposals timely and follow the guidelines for proposals

· Individual papers:

Abstracts of no more than 350 words, including references, are invited. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 February 2015. Please send the abstracts to the conference email address, as a word document and remember not to include author(s) name and affiliation in the abstract.

. Notification of acceptance by 15 March.

Future publication

There will be a call for full papers, as we are planning to publish a volume with selected contributions. Details will follow soon.

Contact

For any queries please contact ADDA 1 organizers Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich at adda.organizers@gmail.com

Language Processing with Perl and Prolog, 2nd edition @Springer

Language Processing with Perl and Prolog, 2nd edition
By Pierre Nugues
Published by Springer

This book has a companion website at http://ilppp.cs.lth.se/
and can be ordered from Springer: http://www.springer.com/978-3-642-41463-3
or Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Language-Processing-Perl-Prolog-Implementation/dp/364241463X/

Overview:
This book teaches the principles of natural language processing, first covering practical linguistics issues such as encoding and annotation schemes, defining words, tokens and parts of speech, and morphology, as well as key concepts in machine learning, such as entropy, regression, and classification, which are used throughout the  book. It then details the language-processing functions involved, including part-of-speech tagging using rules and stochastic techniques, using Prolog to write phase-structure grammars, syntactic formalisms and constituent and dependency parsing techniques, semantics, predicate logic, and lexical semantics, and analysis of discourse and applications in dialogue systems. A key feature of the book is the author’s hands-on approach throughout, with sample code in Prolog and Perl, extensive exercises, and a detailed introduction to Prolog. The reader is supported with a companion website that contains teaching slides, programs, and additional material.

The second edition is a complete revision of the techniques exposed in the first edition to reflect advances in the field. The author redesigned or updated all the chapters, added two new ones, and considerably expanded the sections on machine-learning techniques.

Contents:
1 An Overview of Language Processing
2 Corpus Processing Tools
3 Encoding and Annotation Schemes
4 Topics in Information Theory and Machine Learning
5 Counting Words
6 Words, Parts of Speech, and Morphology
7 Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Rules
8 Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Statistical Techniques
9 Phrase-Structure Grammars in Prolog
10 Partial Parsing
11 Syntactic Formalisms
12 Constituent Parsing
13 Dependency Parsing
14 Semantics and Predicate Logic
15 Lexical Semantics
16 Discourse
17 Dialogue
Appendix: An Introduction to Prolog
Index
References