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Workshop Opening “Beyond Semantics” Stefanie Dipper 1 & Heike Zinsmeister 2 1 Ruhr University Bochum 2 Konstanz University AG 1 “Beyond Semantics” DGfS 2011 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 1 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Program Change The talk by Zulaica-Hernandez & Gutierrez-Rexach has been cancelled The talk by Aguilar-Guevara et al. takes that slot The modified program of Friday: 11:30 – 12:00 Costanza Navarretta Antecedent and referent types of abstract pronominal anaphora 12:00 – 12:30 Aguilar-Guevara et al. Semantics and pragmatics of indefinites: methodology for a synchronic and diachronic corpus study 12:30 – 13:30 Stefanie Dipper and Heike Zinsmeister Plenary discussion and closing remarks Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 2 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” A Commercial Break Poster session of the Computational Linguistics group → Thursday, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., ZHG Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 3 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Socializing: Workshop Dinner (NOT the conference dinner!) Thursday evening, 8:15 p.m. (after the reception at the city hall) Restaurant Lehmofen (Turkish cuisine) à la carte, everybody at one own’s costs Please sign up by this afternoon Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 4 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Workshop Talks Preferably: put your PDF slides on Heike’s MacBook (or: PPT, ODP) Otherwise: test your laptop during the break before your talk Chairs: Arndt Riester: Wednesday, Feb 23 Versley, Flöck, Degaetano/Teich, Tremper/Frank Costanza Navarretta: Thursday, Feb 24 Cook/Bildhauer, Riester/Baumann, Chiarcos Yannick Versley: Friday, Feb 25 Navarretta, Aguilar-Guevara et al. Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 5 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Workshop Proceedings We recieved 19 submissions from 8 countries, 13 have been accepted Working papers BLA (“Bochumer Linguistische Arbeiten”) Online Proceedings: http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bla/ (not yet online) Plus: printed edition for authors (1 copy per speaker) → Get your copy during the coffee break! Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 6 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Journal Proposal Journal Dialogue and Discourse Founded 2009 From the journal’s website: D&D is the first international journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language “beyond the single sentence”, in discourse (i.e., text, monologue) and dialogue. Open to interested readers everywhere (open access). Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 7 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Selected Journal Topics “Linguistic analysis of phenomena characteristic of discourse and/or dialogue (including, but not limited to: reference and anaphora, presupposition and accommodation, topicality and salience, implicature, discourse structure and rhetorical relations, discourse markers and particles, the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts, questions, imperatives, non-sentential utterances, intonation, and meta-communicative phenomena such as repair and grounding)” Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 8 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Tentative Timetable March 31 2011: Open call May 31 2011: Three-page abstract (intent to submit) Sep 15 2011: Submission deadline Nov 15 2011: Reviews due Dec 31 2011: Revisions Jan 31 2012: Publication Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 9 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Goals of the Workshop Bring together Theoretical linguists who use texts and corpora for pragmatic or discourse-related research questions Corpus linguists / computational linguists who create and annotate relevant corpus resources, or exploit them Explore both sides of the coin Evaluate theory of pragmatic and discourse phenomena by applying it to corpus data Optain linguistically better informed annotated data Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 10 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” Goals of the Workshop Raising awareness for the challenges and merits of the annotation of “beyond” phenomena More general / more specific corpus queries Evaluation of theory by inter-annotator agreement Training of models for natural language processing that go beyond syntax Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 11 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” The Workshop Program: Topics Reference to discourse referents (Givenness Hierarchy, Bridging Relations, Centering Theory, or Haspelmath’s approach) Chiarcos, Navarretta, Korzen & Matthias Buch-Kromann, and Aguilar-Guevara et al. Annotation of information-structural features (topic and focus) Riester & Baumann, Cook & Bildhauer Analysis of discourse-structure (Rhetorical Structure Theory, Penn Discourse TreeBank, etc.) van der Vliet et al., Versley, Buch-Kromann et al. Speakers’ attitudes Degaetano & Teich, Flöck Presuppositional relations Tremper & Frank Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 12 / 25

The Workshop “Beyond Semantics” The Workshop Program: Keynote Speeches Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University): Patterns of Explicit and Implicit Clausal Connectors: What this might suggest for “beyond semantics” Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia University): Making Sense of Word Sense Variation Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 13 / 25

Our Background About Us/Our Joint Work Corpus-based investigations Local coherence: function of the sentence-initial position in German Abstract anaphora (discourse-deictic anaphora) → Annotation of relevant factors Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 14 / 25

Our Background The Annotation Task: Abstract Anaphora Example Each fall, penguins migrate to Fiji. (Byron 2002) a. That’s why I’m going there next month. – FACT b. It happens just before the eggs hatch. – EVENT Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 15 / 25

Our Background The Annotation Task: Three Subtasks Locating the antecedent 1 Semantic type of the anaphor (‘event’, ‘fact’, . . . ) 2 Semantic type of the antecedent 3 Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 16 / 25

Our Background Task 1: Locating the Antecedent “Namely Test” Idea: Formulate an appositive clause behind the anaphor, in the form of nämlich dass/ob/wenn . . . ‘namely that/if/when . . . ’ The appositive clause indicates the string of the antecedent Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 17 / 25

Our Background “Namely Test”: Example (DE) Example [ 39637 ] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [ 39638 ] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen dies bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden. Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 18 / 25

Our Background “Namely Test”: Example (DE) Example [ 39637 ] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [ 39638 ] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen dies — nämlich dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt — bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden. Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 18 / 25

Our Background “Namely Test”: Example (DE) Example [ 39637 ] Hier sehen wir wie in Georgien — es ist in der vorherigen Debatte angesprochen worden —, dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt. [ 39638 ] Ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass unsere Regierungen dies — nämlich dass Russland leider auch hier seinen Einfluss nicht zur Stabilisierung, sondern zur Destabilisierung nutzt — bei den häufigen Kontakten mit der russischen Seite auch in Bezug auf Moldawien deutlich zum Ausdruck bringen würden. Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 18 / 25

Our Background “Namely Test”: Example (EN Translation) Example [ 39637 ] Here too, as in Georgia as we discussed in the previous debate we see that Russia is not using its influence to stabilise, but unfortunately to destabilise the situation. [ 39638 ] I really do wish that our governments would address this issue unequivocally, also in connection with Moldova, in their frequent contacts with Russia. Stefanie Dipper & Heike Zinsmeister Beyond Semantics DGfS 2011 19 / 25