DivPred-2020: Diversity and Prediction in Language Processing 42nd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) Hamburg, Germany, March 4-6, 2020 |
Conference website | https://www.zfs.uni-hamburg.de/dgfs2020/dgfs2020.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=divpred2020 |
Submission deadline | August 22, 2019 |
Diversity and Prediction in Language Processing: Influences of Speaker, Register, and Experimental Method
Workshop (“Kurz-AG 16”) organized as part of the 42ndAnnual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held at the University of Hamburg, Germany, March 4-6, 2020.
Organizers: Franziska Kretzschmar and Ingmar Brilmayer (University of Cologne) and Phillip Alday (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Invited Speaker
Roel Willems (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and Radboud University Nijmegen)
Aims and background
Prediction plays a central role in theories of language processing and is assumed to influence both the speed and accuracy of processing. Although there is a lively debate about what form prediction may take (cf. Huettig & Mani 2016, Kuperberg & Jaeger 2016, Pickering & Gambi 2018), there is little work examining the influence of linguistic and experimental diversity on prediction. For a better understanding of prediction, we invite researchers from all branches of empirical/experimental linguistics to examine three facets of diversity in language processing:
Intra- and Inter-individual Diversity: Usually explored in coarse group comparisons (e.g., mono- vs. multilingual) or broad cognitive distinctions (e.g., working memory), intra- and inter-individual diversity remains underdescribed and less well understood. How do language users differ in their predictive abilities and strategies, and how are these differences shaped by biological and/or cultural influences?
Stylistic Diversity: Despite calls for more naturalistic stimuli, the majority of language processing research still focuses on a very constrained register of well-controlled sentences composed in the standard language. How are predictions shaped by extra- and meta-linguistic context, such as register/genre or accent/speaker identity?
Methodological Diversity: A wide variety of empirical methods are now available, yet the majority of studies use only one or two. What opportunities and challenges do we face, when integrating multiple approaches to examine linguistic diversity in human’s predictive capacity? How much diversity can our methods handle?
Call for papers
We invite abstracts for oral presentations (20mins talk + 10 discussion), describing original research on linguistic and methodological diversity in predictive processing. Abstracts must be anonymous and must not exceed one page, including examples, figures and references. Please send your abstract in PDF format, with 1 inch margins on all sides and 12 point font size.
Please note that the regulations of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) do not allow that workshop participants present two or more papers in the same or different workshops. It is possible to be a co-author on more than one abstract.
A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro each are available for accepted contributions by DGfS members with low or without income. If you would like to be considered for a travel grant, you will have to send a short letter of motivation to the organizers upon acceptance of your contribution.
Important dates
NEW Deadline for submission: August 22, 2019
Notification of acceptance: Early September, 2019
Workshop: March 4-5, 2020
Contact
For any questions, please contact the organizers franziska.kretzschmar@uni-koeln.de, ingmar.brilmayer@uni-koeln.de or phillip.alday@mpi.nl