[open-linguistics] LLOD workshop at SLE 2012 - Who can provide a mini-abstract of their work?

Fri Oct 7 12:56:00 UTC 2011

Dear Open Data linguists,

one of my current goals is to establish Open Data as a topic at all major  
linguistics conferences. We will have a workshop at the next DGfS, which  
looks very promising. We will probably also be present at LREC. Another  
good venue to promote our ideas would be the SLE meeting (European  
equivalent of LSA), with 450 participants or so.

The application procedure is somewhat peculiar there: one can only apply  
for a workshop if one already knows that there are qualified people  
interested. This has to be proven with mini-abstracts. If the workshop is  
accepted, the participants have to submit normal abstracts, which undergo  
normal reviewing.

I would like such an Open Data workshop to take place at SLE 2012, but  
before I really start organizing it, I would like to know:

a) who would be interested in  presenting their work

b) who can contribute a 300 words abstract until the end of the month

Please get back to me asap because the deadlines are tough. If we get 6+  
presenters, I will put together a description. The topic of the workshop  
will probably related to the DGfS workshop (http://ldl2012.lod2.eu/), but  
I am open to suggestions

Please see the original CfP below

Best wishes

Sebastian

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Subject: 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in  
Stockholm: First call for papers
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:40:43 +0200

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
  29 August - 1 September 2012

University of Stockholm
http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/

The Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Department of Linguistics of the  
University of Stockholm, Sweden, invite you to submit abstracts for  
workshop, poster or general session papers for the next annual meeting.

SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research. For  
more information on the previous editions, see SLE 2010 and SLE 2011.
Deadlines15 November 2011:	submission of workshop proposals (description +  
short abstracts)
15 December 2011:	notification of acceptance/rejection
15 January 2012:	submission of all abstracts
31 March 2012:	notification of acceptance

Plenary speakers
Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice)
Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Andrej Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Catrin Norrby (University of Stockholm)
Local organizing Committee
Chair: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Secretary: Susanne Vejdemo
Members: Fredrik Heinat, Jenny Larsson, Matti Miestamo, Tomas Riad,  
Bernhard Wälchli
SLE Conference Management
Treasurer: Dik Bakker (Lancaster)
Conference manager: Bert Cornillie (Leuven)
Scientific Committee
Chair: Ursula Doleschal (Klagensfurt)
Members: Niclas Abrahamsson (Stockholm), Laura Alba (UNED, Madrid), Reili  
Argus (Tallinn), Peter Arkadiev (Moscow), Dany Badran (Beirut), Valeria A.  
Belloro (Querétaro), Paola Beninca' (Padua), Andrea L. Berez (Mānoa),  
Marcella Bertuccelli (Pisa), Ermenegildo Bidese (Trento), Kersti Börjars  
(Manchester), Anna Cardinaletti (Venice), Anne Carlier (Lille 3), Michela  
Cennamo (Naples), Concepción Company Company (UNAM, Mex), Cleo Condoravdi  
(Stanford), Francisco J. Cortés Rodríguez (La Laguna), Denis Creissels  
(Lyon), Michael Daniel (Moscow), Stuart Davis (Indiana), Philippe De  
Brabanter (Paris 4), Helen de Hoop (Nijmegen), Walter De Mulder (Antwerp),  
Liesbeth Degand (Louvain-la-Neuve), Pierpaolo Di Carlo (New York), Dagmar  
Divjak (Sheffield), Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Poznan), Andrés  
Enrique-Arias (Balearic Islands), Victoria Escandell-Vidal (UNED, Madrid),  
Malgorzata Fabiszak (Poznan), Olga Fernández-Soriano (UAM, Madrid),  
Zygmunt Frajzyngier (Boulder), Antonio García Gómez (Alcalá de Henares),  
Joaquin Garrido (UC, Madrid), Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld), Spike Gildea  
(Oregon), Alessandra Giorgi (Venice), Adele Goldberg (Princeton), María de  
los Ángeles Gómez González (Santiago de Compostela), Stefan Th. Gries  
(Santa Barbara), Britt-Louise Gunnarsson (Uppsala), Rania Habib  
(Syracuse), Youssef Haddad (Florida), Bjoern Hansen (Regensburg),  
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester), Peter Harder (Copenhagen), Martin  
Haspelmath (MPI, EVA Leipzig), Martin Hilpert (Freiburg), Tuomas Huumo  
(Turku), Elly Ifantidou (Athens), Karol Janicki (Bergen), Brian Joseph  
(Ohio State), Mikhail Kissine (Bruxelles), Seppo Kittilä (Helsinki),  
Béatrice Lamiroy (Leuven), Pierre Larrivée (Caen), Ritva Laury (Helsinki),  
Elisabeth Leiss (Munich), Lucía Loureiro-Porto (the Balearic Islands),  
Ricardo Maldonado (UNAM, Mex), Francesca Masini (Bologna), Belén  
Méndez-Naya (Santiago de Compostela), Helle Metslang (Tartu), Amina  
Mettouchi (Paris/CNRS), Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen(Poznan), Matti  
Miestamo (Stockholm), Edith Moravcsik (Milwaukee), Melissa Moyer (UA,  
Barcelona), Henrik Høeg Müller (Copenhagen), Nicola Munaro (Venice), Heiko  
Narrog (University), Nicole Nau (Poznan), Joakim Nivre (Uppsala), Carita  
Paradis (Lund), Christer Platzack (Lund), Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt),  
Lola Pons Rodríguez (Sevilla), Anne Reboul (CNRS, Paris), Eric Reuland  
(Utrecht), Tomas Riad (Paris 8 –Stockholm), Anna Roussou (Patras),  
Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza (Logroño), Cinzia Russi (Austin), Helge Sandøy  
(Bergen), Elena Seoane-Posse (Vigo), Petra Sleeman (Amsterdam), Dejan  
Stosic (Artois), Cristina Suárez-Gómez (the Balearic Islands), Yakov  
Testelets (Moscow), Catherine Travis (Albuquerque), Dorien Van De Mieroop  
(Leuven), Antal Van den Bosch (Nijmegen), Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg),  
Jef Verschueren (Antwerp), Nigel Vincent (Manchester), Tuija Virtanen  
(Åbo), Jacqueline Visconti (Genova), Ferdinand von Mengden (Berlin), Søren  
Wichmann (MPI, EVA – Leipzig), Jacek Witkos (Poznan), Alena  
Witzlack-Makarevich (Zürich), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster), Fernando Zúñiga  
(Zürich).
Guidelines for submission: workshop proposals and papers, posters and  
general session papers

PROCEDURE. The deadline for the submission of workshop proposals is 15  
November 2011. The address for submission is sle at arts.kuleuven.be.  
Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by 15 December 2011.  
After a workshop proposal has been accepted, the convenors will be  
requested to invite their participants to submit their full abstracts by  
15 January 2012. These full abstracts will be evaluated individually by  
the Scientific Committee and the convenors.

The deadline for all abstracts (for the general session, the poster  
session and the workshops) is 15 January 2012. Notification of acceptance  
will be given by 31 March 2011.

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (exclusive of references) and should  
clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected)  
results.

Abstracts should be registered and submitted via the Submit Abstract form  
where you can upload an attachment. The abstract should not mention the  
presenter(s) nor their affiliations or addresses. Abstracts are preferably  
in Word or .RTF format; if your abstract contains special symbols, please  
include a pdf version as well.

ORGANIZING A WORKSHOP. Whereas general session papers can deal with any  
topic in linguistics, workshop papers take into account the topic of the  
workshop proposal, and are usually pre-selected by the workshop convenors.

Workshop proposals should contain:
A 1000 word description of the topic (including the research questions to  
be addressed) and
a (provisional) list of workshop participants and 300 word abstracts of  
their papers.

We encourage workshop convenors to distribute an open call for papers on  
the LinguistList (announce your cfp as a session of SLE 2012) and other  
fora in October 2011.

Since we want conference participants to be able to attend individual  
workshop presentations, SLE workshops have to be compatible with the main  
conference schedule. This means that the format of the workshops must be  
organized around 30 minute presentations (20 min. + 10 min. discussion).  
Workshops can contain 10 or 15 slots (corresponding to 1 or 1.5 days);  
each workshop ideally comprises:
An introductory paper by the convenor(s) or by a key-note speaker, which  
summarizes previous research, specifies the approach(es) to be taken and  
sets the scope of the papers to be presented.
Eight papers (1 day) or thirteen papers (1.5 day).
A slot for final discussion on the topics covered by the papers,  
methodological issues and questions for future research.

Further details can be discussed with the SLE Conference Manager.

POSTERS. The next SLE meeting will hold a poster session of an hour for  
both senior and junior researchers. In order to foster interaction, all  
other sessions will be suspended during the poster session. Posters may be  
remain available during the rest of the conference. The maximum size of  
the poster is 1.10 m (vertical) x 1 m (horizontal). For more information  
about how to make a good poster, click here.

MULTIPLE PAPERS. One person may submit a single-authored abstract, a  
single-authored abstract and a co-authored one (not as first author) or  
two co-authored abstracts (only one as first author). Note that keynote  
papers within workshops count as ordinary papers. Presentations will be 20  
minutes plus 10 minutes question time.

EVALUATION. Workshop proposals contain the names of convenors and  
participants and will be evaluated and ranked by the 5 officers of the SLE  
Scientific Committee. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three  
referees. Abstracts submitted to the general session and to the poster  
session will be evaluated by three members of the Scientific Committee.  
Workshop papers receive two evaluations by SC members and one by the  
workshop convenors. The threshold for acceptance is the same for general  
session, poster and workshop abstracts. The acceptance of a paper depends  
on the quality of the abstract. The acceptance rate of the previous  
conference was 68%.
Prize for the best presentation and the best poster

There will be a prize for the best oral presentation by a PhD student, a  
prize for the best oral presentation by a postdoc and a prize for the best  
poster.

For current purposes, PhD-students are students that have not completed  
their PhD before the conference. Postdocs have completed their PhD not  
earlier than January 2009. A nominated paper may be co-authored; in such a  
case the nominee will be the first author.

Applicants are invited to mark the button referring to the prize when they  
register their abstract. On the basis of the ranking of the abstracts, the  
Scientific Committee will set up an internal shortlist with nominees for  
the prizes.

Members of the Editorial Board of Folia Linguistica (Historica) and the  
Scientific Committee will decide who will be awarded the first prize in  
each category, which consists of 500 Euros, and the 2nd and 3rd prize,  
which is a three-year SLE membership.
Registration

Registration will start from 1 April 2012 onwards. From this year on, the  
SLE meeting will be a member only conference. That is, all participants  
with a paper in the program will have to be members. The early bird  
conference fee for members will be 170 Euros.

Become a member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea.
Social programme

There will be a reception in the City Hall of Stockholm (included in the  
registration fee) and a conference dinner. On Saturday afternoon there  
will be a post-conference excursion. Further information will be given in  
the second circular.
How to get to Stockholm

Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is well connected by train, boat and  
airways. Stockholm is a key hub for flights in the Baltic Sea Region, the  
European Union and the rest of the world. It has three major airports -  
Arlanda (the primary gateway to Sweden), Bromma (smaller, but close to  
central Stockholm) and Skavsta (although 1,5 hours away by airport bus,  
this is the hub for Ryanair, Europe's largest low cost airline). Train  
tickets from continental Europe can be booked at http://www.sl.se, and all  
major travel agencies should have information on boat schedules for the  
Baltic Sea Region.
Important dates15 November 2011:	deadlines for submission of workshop  
proposals
15 January 2012:	deadline for submission of all abstracts
31 March 2012:	notification of acceptance
1 April 2012:	early registration starts
1 June 2012:	registration (full fee)
30 June 2012:	registration closed for participants with a paper
20 August 2012:	registration closed

Contact
SLE 2012 Local organizing committee

Susanne Vejdemo (Secretary)
  E-mail: sle2012 at ling.su.se
SLE conference manager

Bert Cornillie
sle at arts.kuleuven.be

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