[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 65, Issue 23

[Arun Menon]

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>    1. CFP -- Computational Stylistics at ESSLLI2010 -- March 15,
>       2010	Deadline (Carl Vogel)
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> Subject: [Air-L] CFP -- Computational Stylistics at ESSLLI2010 --
> 	March 15,	2010	Deadline
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> CALL FOR PAPERS -- StylisticsMMX
>
> European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2010
> (ESSLLI 2010 Workshop):
>
> Computational Stylistics:
> Beyond concordances and grammar checkers
>
> Methods of automatic text classification have been applied widely and
> extensively, ranging in category granularity and with respect to both
> solely internal properties of texts and text-external
> variables. Coarse-grained categories include binary distinctions such
> as spam vs. non-spam and three-way sentiment analysis of positive,
> negative or neutral, and at the other extreme, fine grained categories
> might derive from authorship attribution tasks or translation
> re-ranking in machine translation.  Recent studies have sought to
> relate internal linguistic features of texts with external variables,
> such as author gender or scores on personality indices.  Approaches
> driven by statistics amassed over corpora are compatible with (and
> informed by) precision analyses over selected texts, as practiced
> widely in the digital humanities and some approaches to discourse
> representation theory.  Neither the "macro" level analysis supplied by
> corpus linguistics nor the "micro" level analysis of individual texts
> is in any way new.  However, the potential for their interaction, and
> for assessing supra-lexical linguistic features of texts within
> stylistic analysis is growing.  The aim of this workshop is to
> highlight current work that advances and applies computational
> stylistics.
>
> Papers sought for presentation will address any of the topics related
> to the theme of the workshop, including:
>    - relations between demographic and linguistic variables
>    - reliability and validity of complexity and other indices
>    - plot structure analysis
>    - sentiment, theme and semantic relation analysis
>    - dramatis personae analysis
>    - tracking stylistic change
>    - cross-cultural variations in effects
>
> Each of ten to fifteen presentations will have a tutorial element
> situating the problem and hypotheses explored, as well as spelling out
> the methods of analysis, followed by the main substance of the
> research findings.  Thus, the workshop proposes pedagogical value
> appropriate to ESSLLI, at the same time as recording recent research
> advances.
>
>
> TIMELINE:
>
> Call for Papers                    -- November 15, 2009
> Submission Deadline                -- March 15, 2010
> Notice of Acceptance or Rejection  -- April 15, 2010
> Final Submissions                  -- May 15, 2010
> ESSLLI2010			   -- August 9-20, 2010
>
>
> FORMATTING and SUBMISSION DETAILS:
>
> Final versions will be formatted using LaTeX via a style
> sheet made available here:
>
> http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg/StylisticsMMX
>
> Submit pdf of full papers not exceeding 12 pages (inclusive of
> bibliography and appendices) in 11 point text via EasyChair to:
>
> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stylisticsmm10
>
>
> IMPORTANT NOTE about the European Summer School in Logic Language
> and Information:
>
> Authors of accepted papers to ESSLLI workshops must register as
> participants in the whole of ESSLLI, even if they intend to
> participate in only the week of ESSLLI in which the workshop is
> scheduled.  Traditionally, presenters of papers accepted to workshops
> have been allowed to register with fees set at the student
> early-registration rate.
>
>
> Further details on ESSLLI 2010 are here:  http://esslli2010cph.info/
>
>
> StylisticsMMX Program Committee:
>
>
> Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin
> Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp
> Patrick Juola, Duquesne University
> Fionn Murtagh, Science Foundation Ireland & Royal Holloway, University of
> London
> Harold Somers, Dublin City University/University of Manchester
> Sarah Rauchas, Goldsmiths, University of London
> Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University
> Carl Vogel [Chair], Trinity College Dublin
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