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Web genres
by Daniel O'Donnell 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Hi all, The following may be of interest to some on this list, though the deadline is tight: > APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS > --------------------------- > > 2nd Call for Abstracts > > Corpus Linguistics 2007 Colloquium: > Towards a reference corpus of web genres > > > COLLOQUIUM DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES > > Genres of spoken and written texts are being intensively > studied from > various angles, e.g., communication studies, discourse > analysis, > computational linguistics, without arriving at a generally > accepted > definition. The web is new, so it is not clear how to apply > traditional > notions of genre to web pages. In this colloquium we would > like collect > submissions that study characteristics of web genres with > respect to > traditional paper genres represented in electronic corpora > like the BNC. > > Web documents are often characterised by a high level of genre > hybridism, > by a fragmentation of textuality across several documents, by > the impact of > technical features such as hyperlinking, posting facilities > and > multi-authoring. The web is a huge reservoir of documents that > can be > easily mined for building all sorts of corpora with many > collections being > built according to subjective criteria for > corpus composition, genre annotation, genre representativeness > and genre > granularity. In this colloquium we would like to invite > submissions > contributing to a reference corpus of web genres. The main > goal of the > colloquium is to draw up an initial list of characteristics > and > requirements for building, annotating and evaluation reference > corpora of > web genres. For instance: > > * To what extent should genre hybridism and authorial > creativity be > represented in a genre collection? These two phenomena appear > to be very > common on the web. > > * To what extent is it possible to include ''emerging > genres'', i.e., > genres still in a transitional phase in genre evolution? The > web is > currently thriving with emerging genres. > > * How many granularities of the unit of analysis should be > included? Only > genres representing web sites? Only genre representing web > pages? Both? > > * What ''format'' should be used to store these units in a > collection > (e.g., a database-like form, DOM trees, a net of graphs, in > HTML format, in > a text-only version, with or without embedded images, removing > boilerplate > components)? > > * What level of genre granularity and similarity should be > applied in the > reference corpus? Genre collections often show different > levels of > granularity, including genres and super-genres. Should similar > genres, such > as ''tutorial'' and ''how-to'', be accounted for separately? > > TOPICS: > > The topics of interest include but are not limited to: > > - Text theory for the development of web corpora > - Modelling corpora of web genres > - Innovative genre classification schemes accounting for > multi-genre and > no-genre web documents > - Modelling genre annotation scheme for web documents > (metadata organization) > - Assembling a list of web genres for a reference corpus > - Creating comparable corpora of web genre > - Automatic genre classification vs. human genre > classification > - How to evaluate the corpus: using statistical measures, > relying on corpus > linguists, librarians, or web users? > > PARTICIPATION > > The aim of this colloquium, the first ever organized on this > topic, is to > bring together researchers from different communities such as > corpus > linguistics, genre analysis, digital genre community, > computational > linguistics, and information retrieval in order to promote the > discussion > and development of new ideas and methods to create new corpora > for language > studies and as evaluation resources. > > Send abstrats to: webgenres(a)googlemail.com > Please, specify ''Colloquium Abstracts'' in the subject line. > > Abstract submissions should include: > * Presenter contact information (mailing address, phone, > e-mail & fax) > * A paper proposal (250 word max) > * An abstract for the program (50 word max) > > The deadline for submissions is Dec 15, 2006 > Notification of acceptance will be sent out by Jan 11, 2007 > > *LOCATION*: > The colloquium will take place in the UK at the end of July > 2007. The venue > and the exact date of the colloquium will be announced at the > end of > January 2007. > > Colloquium Organization: > > Marina Santini (University of Brighton, UK) > Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) > > Program Committee: > > Marco Baroni (University of Bologna, Italy) > Stefan Gries (University of California, USA) > Adam Kilgarriff (Lexmasterclass, UK) > Alexander Mehler (Bielefeld University, Germany) > Sven Meyer zu Eissen (University of Weimar, Germany) > John Paolillo (Indiana University, USA) > Paul Rayson (UCREL, Lancaster Uni, UK) > Georg Rehm (University of Tuebingen, Germany) > Marina Santini (University of Brighton, UK) > Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) > Benno Stein (University of Weimar, Germany) > > Contacts: > ======== > Main contact: Serge Sharoff (s.sharoff(a)leeds.ac.uk) > Other contact: Marina Santini > (Marina.Santini(a)itri.brighton.ac.uk) > > > Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department Chair and Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/ Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 Email: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca WWW: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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by caedmon＠uleth.ca 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

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