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Call for abstracts
Conference "From Text to Political Positions", VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 9-10 April 2010.
The workshop ’From Text to Political Positions´ (T2PP) is intended to
provide a meeting place for individual researchers and research groups
focussing on the development of methods and techniques for the
analysis of political texts. It will allow for dialogue between
scholars working on complementary multidisciplinary projects, and so
may lead to further collaboration. During these two days, plenty of
time will be reserved for social and intellectual exchanges and the
event will close with a round-table discussion.
The meeting will focus on comprehensive and precise methods for
manual and automated analysis of subjectivity and the presentation of
opinions in political texts. Examples of relevant text-types include,
but are not limited to : television news broadcasts, interviews,
newspapers, opinion papers, parliamentary debates, manifestos, party
websites, blogs, public-opinion polls on the internet and voting polls
and election results.
We plan to compile a selection of the papers and submit them to a
peer-reviewed international journal for publication as a special
issue.
Call for Abstracts
We invite 500-1000 word abstracts in English. They should be sent to T2PP@let.vu.nl
Deadline for abstracts : 18 January 2010.
Notification of acceptance will be made by February 15th.
Participation will be based upon acceptance of refereed abstracts.
Only a limited number of papers (12-16) can be accepted to allow for 20 minutes per paper plus discussion time.
Deadline for papers from accepted participants : 10 March 2010.
Accepted papers will be posted on the T2PP web site two weeks in advance as ’working papers’ to enhance discussion and debate.
Workshop cost : FREE - There will be no registration fee !
Topic suggestions
Modelling positions of actors in political texts on issues and dimensions
Sociological and linguistic models for deep-structure analysis of political texts
Linguistic evidence of popularisation of language in politics
Politics in the media : methods of analysis in media discourse on politics
Securing quality in quantitative research methods
Analysing political discourse from a regional (e.g., European, Asian, African, British, USA) or global perspective
Acquisition and representation of subjectivity and modality (emotion, deontic and epistemic modality, urgency) as expressed lexically (e.g. ’for/against’, ’can/will/must’, ’say/state/demand’, pos./neg.’possible/likely’) or on a higher discourse level.
The automatic annotation of subjective, deontic and modal layers of implications in texts to model complex opinions and positions of political/social actors
Applications for political opinion mining and positioning tools
... other suggestions are welcome
Organising Committee
Prof. Dr. Piek Vossen, Prof. Dr. Liesbet Hooghe, Dr. André Krouwel, Dr. Alan Cienki, Drs. Annemarie van Elfrinkhof, Drs. Bertie Kaal, Drs. Isa Maks
More information :
http://discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=274