[Jenling] THIS WEDNESDAY: Bildhauer/Schäfer, Discovering Written Registers

[Ruprecht von Waldenfels]

Dear All,

the next JenLIng talk is coming up this *Wednesday, January 18th, 18:00*

Where? either in person  at Fürstengraben 30,  Seminarraum 1. OG., or  
via zoom with the following link: 
https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/j/92382391570, Passcode: JenLing . We hope 
to go for drinks and more linguistic discussions afterwards, so do come 
in person!

*Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim/HU Berlin) and Roland Schäfer (FSU Jena) 
*will give a talk with the title*/:
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*/Discovering Written Registers/**/
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In this talk, we present a novel approach in corpus-based data-driven 
register research (developed in project A04 "Situated Syntax" of the CRC 
1412 "Register" at HU Berlin). In existing corpus-heavy approaches to 
register (prominently Douglas Biber’s MDA), it is always assumed that 
the set of registers represented in the corpus is known beforehand 
(except in very recent work by Biber et al.). For situations in which 
this assumption does not hold because of the size and the composition of 
the corpus (e.g., for large web corpora such as the DECOW web corpus of 
German), a principled approach to discovering the registers instantiated 
in the corpus has not yet been proposed (to the best of our knowledge). 
This is most likely because registers are obviously hard to detect 
latent dimensions of texts. Based on a fully probabilistic model of 
registers as sets of (probabilities of) linguistic signs (lexical or 
grammatical) used in certain types of situations and thus occurring in 
texts written in such situations, we present a discovery procedure which 
starts with the fully automatic identification of register candidates 
based on the distributions of linguistic signs across texts. The 
potential registers discovered in this procedure are then manually 
annotated for situational-functional parameters (such as formality or 
interactivity) in order to find texts which (i) show a characteristic 
distribution of linguistic signs and (ii) have characteristic 
situational-functional properties. Only the distributions of signs and 
the situational-functional properties together constitute true register 
candidates in our view.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Ruprecht

Prof. Dr. Ruprecht von Waldenfels
Institutsdirektor
Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
D-07743 Jena

Tel. +49 3641-9 44720
Mob +49 163 230 34 23
skype: rvwaldenfels
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