[Corpora-List] 2nd call for papers: Workshop Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse, Netherlands

From: Luuk Lagerwerf (l.lagerwerf@scw.vu.nl)
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    Please note the second call for papers for MAD03 below. Apologies for
    cross-postings.

    Luuk Lagerwerf

    5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE
    October 22th-25th, 2003, Driebergen, Netherlands

    MAD03 THEME: DETERMINATION OF INFORMATION AND TENOR IN TEXTS

    KEYWORDS
    Content analysis, information extraction, text analysis, discourse
    representation, linguistics of argumentation, text typology

    KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
    Klaus Schönbach, Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL)
    Peter Foltz, New Mexico State University (NM)
    Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK)
    Paul Deane, Educational Testing Service (NJ)

    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
    Deadline for submission of full papers addressing one of the questions of
    the workshop is May 1st, 2003. On the website of MAD03,
    http://home.scw.vu.nl/~lagerwerf/Mad03Web/index.htm, updated guidelines for
    submission are given.

    SCHEDULE
    2nd call for papers: February 13rd, 2003
    Deadline (full papers): May 1st, 2003
    Notice of acceptance: July 1st, 2003
    Deliverance final papers: August 1st, 2003

    Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2003 (MAD'03) is the fifth in a
    series of small-scale, high-quality workshops that have been organised every
    second year since 1995 (Egmond-aan-zee (NL), 1995; Utrecht (NL), 1997;
    Edinburgh (GB), 1999; Ittre (BE), 2001). Its aim is to bring together
    researchers from different disciplines, in particular theoretical and
    applied linguists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists, to exchange
    information and learn from each other on a common topic of investigation:
    text and discourse.

    WORKSHOP THEME
    In this edition of the workshop, MAD’03 aims at bringing together social
    scientists and linguists by pursuing the following theme: Determination of
    Information and Tenor in Texts. Topics of the workshop are exemplified by,
    but not limited to, questions like:

            * How is content (or information) extracted from text?
            * How does one systematically infer stances from texts?
            * What determines differences in interpretation between readers?
            * How do (automated) discourse representations come about?
            * How can linguistic properties be put to use for analysis of large text
    collections?
            * What do co-occurrences of words tell about discourses?
            * How does text type or genre change the interpretation of text variables?
            * How do new media change the use of text variables and genres?

    WORKSHOP LOCATION
    The workshop and lodging will be in conference centre De Bergse Bossen,
    located in the forests of Driebergen, a village near Utrecht (Netherlands).
    Travelling by train to Schiphol Airport or the city of Amsterdam takes less
    than an hour.

    WORKSHOP DESIGN
    In the workshop, about 20 people will be presenting an accepted paper in
    plenary sessions. The total number of participants will be limited to 40.
    Anonymous review of full papers will be carried out in order to guarantee
    high quality of papers. The organisers also strive to publish all accepted
    papers in workshop proceedings at the start of the workshop. After the
    workshop, a selection of papers are likely to be published in a special
    issue of an appropriate journal (see the references).

    WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
    Luuk Lagerwerf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
    Wilbert Spooren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
    Liesbeth Degand, Université catholique de Louvain (BE)

    MAD’03 is hosted by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Netherlands
    School of Communication Research (NESCoR; in the persons of Prof. Dr. J.
    Kleinnijenhuis, Vrije Universiteit; Prof. Dr. P.J. Schellens, Universiteit
    Twente). The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the
    Netherlands organisation for scientific research (NWO) support this workshop
    financially.

    WORKSHOP THEME DESCRIPTION
    In many approaches to discourse analysis in linguistics, and content or
    media analysis in social sciences, methods have been developed to extract
    information from texts systematically. Apart from extracting information,
    many different approaches have also been aiming to determine the tenor of
    texts. In this small-scale intensive workshop, we want to encourage
    discussion between researchers from different backgrounds.
            The workshop will have significance for document design as well as content
    analysis. In both cases, it is important to analyse processes of recognition
    and evaluation of information in text. Also, linguistic properties of texts
    may serve as cues for systematising these processes.
            Other related areas are the fields of persuasion and argumentation, and
    discourse psychology, discourse analysis, and computational modelling of
    discourse processes. By using statistical approaches based on
    co-occurrences, judgments of diverse aspects of texts may be delivered
    automatically.
    Together, these approaches make it possible to build information structures
    of texts, make abstracts automatically, or disclose tendencies in the
    content of multiple texts.
            In each of these approaches, it is important to realize that text type (or
    genre) is perhaps one of the most determining factors in extracting
    information, evaluating information or examining linguistic aspects of text.
    Regarding the workshop topics, this factor will be controlled by either
    taking news texts as the default text type, or taking text type itself as a
    topic to determine its influence on information, tenor or linguistic
    aspects.
    The application of any of these approaches to the design or analysis of new
    media provides a very interesting extension of the topics of the workshop.

    REFERENCES
    A short impression of the previous workshop MAD’01 can be obtained at:
    http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/lingne/Degand/MAD/mad-presentation.htm

    Previous workshops resulted in the following publications:
    - Degand, L., Y. Bestgen & W. Spooren & L. v. Waes (eds.; 2001).
    Multidisciplinary approaches to discourse (pp. 183-194). Münster: Nodus
    Publikationen.
    - Knott, A., J. Oberlander & T. Sanders (eds.; 2001). Special Issue: Levels
    of Representation in Discourse Relations, Cognitive Linguistics 12 (3).
    - Risselada, R. & W. Spooren (eds.; 1998). Special issue: Discourse markers
    and coherence relations. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (2).
    - Sanders, T., J. Schilperoord & W. Spooren (eds.; 2001). Text
    Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects. Amsterdam:
    Benjamins.
    - Spooren, W. & R. Risselada (eds.; 1997). Special issue: Discourse markers.
    Discourse Processes 24 (1).

    Luuk Lagerwerf
    Communicatiewetenschap
    Vrije Universiteit
    De Boelelaan 1081c (bezoekadres nr. 859)
    1081 HV Amsterdam
    +31 20 444 6915
    l.lagerwerf@scw.vu.nl



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