Abstracts are invited for a workshop “Sign language corpora: Linguistic issues” to take place at University College London (London, England) on 24-25 July, 2009 (immediately following the 2009 Corpus Linguistics Conference at the University of Liverpool, England.
Increasing numbers of sign language researchers are seeking to create large corpora of sign language digital video data. Projects have begun in Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, for example, and more are underway or being planned in other parts of the world. This workshop aims to share experiences from current work and plans for future work. What are the descriptive and theoretical challenges being encountered and what solutions are being proposed? What kinds of linguistic data are being collected? What linguistic and sociolinguistic factors are being considered in corpus design? What standards for linguistic tagging and metadata are being used and how can these be improved? What kinds of linguistic research questions are being addressed using sign language corpus data? What kinds of linguistic evidence can corpora provide? What implications does sign language corpus work have for linguistic theory/theories?
We invite abstracts for 30 minute papers or posters on descriptive, theoretical and applied linguistic issues in corpus-based approaches to sign language research, including the following topics:
- Linguistic and sociolinguistic issues in building sign language corpora
- Linguistic issues in annotation or for metadata descriptions
- Reports from linguistic research using corpora
- Use of corpora in sign language teaching and learning
- Use of parallel corpora in sign language research, and interpreting/translation studies
- Language documentation, archiving and preservation of sign language data
- Linguistic issues in the development of annotation software and automated sign language recognition
Day 1 of the workshop will consist of presentations and posters, while day 2 will involve a series of invited talks interspersed with discussions on key issues led by discussants.
Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) by email to no later than 28th February 2009. You can email abstracts as attachments in .doc, .pdf or.txt format. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Please DO NOT include any personal information in the abstract, but provide the title, author’s name and affiliation in the body of the email message. In your message, please also indicate your preference for the presentation format: spoken/signed paper or poster. You will receive an email confirming your abstract submission, sent to the email address of the person submitting the abstract (if you would like others to be included, please copy them into the original email).
Notification for abstract acceptance: 31st March, 2009.
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