Date: March 13th, 2013 Location: Potsdam, Germany Contact persons: Annette Hautli and Thomas Mayer Meeting email: [email protected]

Linguistic field(s): Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Visual Analytics

Call deadline: August 26th, 2012

Meeting description: Workshop at the 35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2013)

Invited speaker: xxx

Workshop organizers: Annette Hautli (Konstanz) and Thomas Mayer (München/Marburg)

Call for Papers:

Although linguists have successfully employed visual representations in some areas (e.g., spectrograms in phonetic research, tree diagrams for syntactic and genealogical configurations and the widespread use of box plots and other graphical descriptive techniques), there is enormous potential for more sophisticated visualization techniques that enable the researcher to investigate the information interactively in order to gain insights through an at-a-glance overview over large amounts of data. At the same time, a well-designed visualization allows for a more detailed view of individual aspects of potentially interesting patterns. The mapping of relevant features to visual variables (rather than having them represented by a host of numbers) thereby enhances the detection of patterns. The need to analyze a multitude of factors at the same time calls for an additional component that renders potential patterns more easily accessible to the human perception.

The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to bring together linguists and visual analysts in order to give an opportunity for fruitful discussions on how language research that employs data-rich methods can benefit from visualization techniques. The interest lies both in innovative visualization techniques as well as new areas of application or phenomena where visual analyses have proven useful to either generate or confirm hypotheses on the basis of the data.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• the (multifactorial) visual analysis of linguistic features
• the exploration of linguistic features in terms of integrating geo-spatial locations with hierarchical (e.g. genealogical) information
• visualization of linguistic features with a temporal dimension (e.g. language change)

Submission details: We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts for 30 min talks including discussion. Submissions should not exceed one page, 11pt. single spaced, with an optional additional page for images. The review process will be anonymous. Please submit your abstracts to the following page: www.xxx.de

Important dates: Submission deadline: August 26th, 2012 Notification of acceptance: Workshop: March 13th, 2013