Interdisciplinary
Workshop on
Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language
Thursday 27th March 2003 (all day)
as part of
CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2003
main programme 28th March - 1st April 2003
Lancaster University, England
Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference webpage
Accepted Abstracts & Provisional Timetable
Theme
Figurative language is pervasive in all kinds of discourse and as a
phenomenon has attracted considerable interest from a wide variety of
fields including linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence and
philosophy. However, the majority of work has been guided by linguistic
intuition and not analysis of real usage. We intend this workshop to
address this by focussing on the use of corpora to investigate
figurative language. The following areas are of particular interest:
- corpus-based studies of figurative aspects of any language
- corpus-based studies of polysemy and context-sensitive meaning, in
their relation to figurative language
- multilingual or cross-lingual studies of figurative language
- computational models of figurative language interpretation or generation, using results from corpora for guidance or being substantially evaluated on corpora
- psychological models of figurative language processing, using
results from corpora as a significant contribution
- relationships between processing models and corpus studies
A second intention of the workshop will be to explore the
methodological issues of using corpora to study figurative language.
Issues include:
- illumination of the concepts of literalness, metaphor, metonymy etc.
through corpus studies
- interannotator agreement on what constitutes figurative language,
metaphor, metonymy etc.
- specific linguistic cues for figurative language, including studies of
their frequencies and reliability and evaluation of their amenability
to automated detection
- corpus design and corpus analysis tools for figurative language
studies
- effects of domain, genre or corpus type on studies of figurative language
(including cross-corpus studies)
The workshop is intended to be a follow-up to our previous workshop at
Corpus
Linguistics 2001. The previous workshop was well attended, with
twelve presented papers, two discussion sessions and about thirty
participants. Selected papers will also appear in an issue of
Metaphor and Symbol journal. The time for a second workshop is
appropriate since in the last two years there has been a great deal of
interest and new research in this area.
We intend the workshop to fill a full day with 10 - 12 presented
papers. A proceedings of full papers will be generated from the
workshop and we will also explore the possibility of publishing
selected papers in a relevant journal.
Submissions
Anybody wishing to present at the workshop should submit a two-page
abstract. If accepted, authors will be invited to submit a full paper
(maximum eight pages) prior to the workshop which will be included in
the workshop proceedings.
Workshop Deadlines
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Abstract submission deadline:
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Friday 21st February 2003
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Notification of acceptance or rejection:
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Friday 28th February 2003
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Deadline for receipt of full papers for inclusion in workshop proceedings:
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Sunday 23rd March 2003
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Workshop Organizers
last modified 10th January 2003
by
M.G.Lee@cs.bham.ac.uk
