[Corpora-List] Website address for CfP MAD05: Salience in Discourse

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Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 16:33:01 MET

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    Dear all,
     
    I forgot to add the website address for the Call for Papers MAD05:
     
    http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~mad05
     
    Kind regards,
     
    Luuk Lagerwerf
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    Onderwerp: Call for Papers MAD05: Salience in Discourse

    Apologies for multiple postings,
     
     
    Manfred Stede, Universitaet Potsdam
    Michael Grabski, Technische Universitaet Berlin
    Luuk Lagerwerf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
     
    Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2005 (MAD'05) is the sixth in a series of small-scale, high-quality workshops held bi-annually since 1995.
    The theme of the 2005 WS is 'salience in discourse'.


    Workshop Theme: Salience in Discourse


    Understanding language involves mapping a linear sequence of information
    units (in the case of texts: characters or words) to a structured
    representation. Various proposals for such structures are under discussion,
    but many of them share an underlying assumption: Structure arises from some
    elements of the text being more prominent than others. The term salience is
    often used for this phenomenon, but it comes in many different flavours.
    The workshop aims to compare these flavours, to look for commonalities, but
    also to sharpen distinctions where appropriate. We thus invite
    contributions from linguistic, psychological, computational perspectives on
    salience in discourse, including but not limited to notions such as the
    following:


    - Information structure is well known for a wide varitey of competing
    conceptions, but they all relate to salience in one way or another:
    focus/background, topic/focus, theme/rheme etc.
    - Anaphora resolution (and, in the opposite direction, production of
    referring expressions) can be modelled using salience, as it has been done
    for instance in conceptions of referent accessibility (e.g., Prince 1981).
    - Choices in sentence structure between coordination, subordination, or
    nominalization can be claimed to have ramifications for discourse
    processing, leading to conceptions of foreground/background structures on
    the text level (e.g., Talmy 2000).
    - Similarly, most theories of discourse structure involve salience, e.g..
    the notion of nuclearity in 'Rhetorical structure theory' (RST,
    Mann/Thompson 1988), or the distinction between coordinating and
    subordinating relations in 'Segmented Discourse Representation Theory'
    (SDRT, Asher/Lascarides 2003).
    - The semantics of definite descriptions and pronouns have been analyzed in
    terms of salience, for instance by Lewis (1979).
    - Other tasks of language processing, such as word-sense disambiguation or
    metaphor processing (e.g., Giora and Fein 2004), are sometimes modelled
    with salience-inspired approaches.


    Attendance:
    Following the tradition of the earlier workshops, attendance will be
    limited to 30 people. Speakers of accepted papers are automatically granted
    a seat; the remaining ones are assigned on first-come-first-serve basis.


    Invited speakers:
    In addition to the regular paper sessions, the workshop features the
    following invited talks:
    - Kristiina Jokinen (Univ. of Helsinki) on salience in language and other
    modalities in dialog
    - Thomas Noll (TU Berlin) on salience in language and music
    - Jon Oberlander (Univ. of Edinburgh) on salience in language and reasoning
    - Michael Tanenhaus (Univ. of Rochester) on salience in language and vision


    Submission:
    Electronic submissions (PDF format) are strongly preferred. Papers should
    not be longer than eight pages (including figures and references), using
    11pt font. For the final versions of accepted papers, precise formatting
    instructions (for Word and LateX) will be issued.


    Send your submission until May 20, 2005 per email to mad05@ling.uni-potsdam.de


    Program Committee:
    Jennifer Arnold (Univ. of Rochester, USA)
    Salvatore Attardo (Youngstown State University, USA)
    Rachel Giora (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
    Michael Grabski (TU Berlin, Germany)
    Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Univ. des Saarlandes, Germany)
    Luuk Lagerwerf (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
    Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK)
    Manfred Stede (Univ. Potsdam, Germany)
    Alice ter Meulen (Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen, NL)


    Schedule:
    Submission deadline: May 20, 2005
    Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005
    Final papers due: August 19, 2005
    Workshop: Oct 5-8, 2005


    Organizers:
    Manfred Stede, Universitaet Potsdam
    Michael Grabski, Technische Universitaet Berlin
    Luuk Lagerwerf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam





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