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International Quantitative Linguistics Conference
QUALICO 2014
Program comittee: Jan Andres (Palacký University, Czech Republic) Radek Čech (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Sheila Embleton (York University, Canada) Peter Grzybek (University of Graz, Austria) Emmerich Kelih (University of Vienna, Austria) Reinhard Köhler (University of Trier, Germany) Ján Mačutek (Comenius University, Slovakia) George Mikros (National and Kapodistrian University, Greece) Hermann Moisl (University of Newcastle, UK) Ivan Obradović (University of Belgrade, Serbia) Relja Vulanović (Kent State University, USA) Local organizers: Martina Benešová (Palacký University, Czech Republic) Radek Čech (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Dan Faltýnek (Palacký University, Czech Republic) Petra Martinková (Palacký University, Czech Republic) Nela Urbaniková (Palacký University, Czech Republic) Students organizing team from Palacký University: Kristýna Bajerová, Ludmila Lacková, Tereza Motalová, Michaela Roubínková, Denisa Schusterová,
Lenka Spáčilová, Jana Ščigulinská, Juliana Zmetáková
Graphic design: Martina Šviráková
The organization of QUALICO 2014 has been supported by the grants: Innovation of General Linguistics and Communication Theory Studies
in Cooperation with Natural Science, reg. no.: CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0076 and Linguistic a lexicostatistic analysis in cooperation with linguistics,
mathematics, biology, psychology, grant no. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0161. Both of these projects are financed by the European Social Fund and
the national Budget of the Czech Republic.
QUALICO 2014 20th anniversary of IQLA
and Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (JQL) foundation Olomouc, Czech Republic, May 29 – June 1, 2014
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, May 29, 2014
09:00 Registration
10:00 Opening in Corpus Cristi Chapel
10:30 Reinhard Köhler (Germany)
Quantitative linguistics: Some characteristics
Session 1 (Auditorium Maximum)
11:15 Emmerich Kelih (Austria)
Loan words: A quantitative linguistics perspective
11:45 Peter Grzybek (Austria)
The Arens-Altmann Law: A matter of boundary conditions or an ostensible success story?
12:15 Lunch break
Session 2 (Auditorium Maximum)
13:30 Edyta Charzyńska and Łukasz Dębowski (Poland)
Factors of readability of Polish texts: A psycholinguistic study
14:00 Veronika Koch and Peter Grzybek (Austria)
The Menzerath-Altmann Law in film analysis
14:30 Denis Biryukov and Martina Benešová (Czech Republic)
Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to contemporary written Japanese – short story style
15:00 Poster session opening
15:15 Coffee break
Session 3 (Auditorium Maximum)
15:30 Jiří Milička (Czech Republic)
Three models for the Menzerath's Law
16:00 Martina Benešová, Dan Faltýnek and Lukáš Zámečník (Czech Republic)
Menzerath-Altmann Law in differently segmented text
16:30 Jan Andres (Czech Republic)
The Menzerath-Altmann Law revisited
17:00 Coffee break
Session 4 (Auditorium Maximum)
17:30 Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu and Eric S. Wheeler (Canada) Quantitative studies: The advantages for dialectology
18:00 Ján Mačutek (Slovakia) Type-token relation for length motifs in Ukrainian texts
18:30 Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon and August Fenk (Austria) Quantitative data on monosyllabism: A cross-linguistic study
20:00 Welcome banquet in Konvikt
Friday, May 30, 2014
Session 5a (Auditorium Maximum) Session 5b (Carolina)
09:00 Łukasz Dębowski (Poland) A new universal code helps to distinguish natural language from random texts
09:00 Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho (Spain) Towards a mathematical theory of word order evolution
09:30 Marjolein Van Egmond and Sergey Avrutin (Netherlands) Defying Zipf's Law
09:30 Makoto Yamazaki (Japan) The influences of word unit and sentence length on the ratio of the parts of speech in Japanese
10:00 Xiaxing Pan and Hui Qiu (China) An exploration of the “Golden section” in Chinese contemporary poetries
10:00 Song Gao (China) The study of text clustering based on Chinese dependency treebank
10:30 Coffee break
Session 6a (Auditorium Maximum) Session 6b (Carolina)
11:00 Radek Čech (Czech Republic), Emmerich Kelih (Austria) and Jan Mačutek (Slovakia) Impact of semantics on case diversification
11:00 Hua Wang (China) Distribution pattern of given and new information in written English
11:30 Arjuna Tuzzi (Italy) and Reinhard Köhler (Germany) History of words II - types of historical developments
11:30 Hermann Moisl (United Kingdom) Sentence semantics, word meaning, and nonlinear dynamics
12:00 Yanru Wang and Xinying Chen (China) Structural complexity of Chinese characters and Zipf's Law
12:00 Sven Naumann (Germany) Structural versus morphological coding. A cross-linguistic study
12:30 Lunch
Session 7a (Auditorium Maximum) Session 7b (Carolina)
14:00 Maciej Eder (Poland) Large-scale stylometry using network analysis
14:00 Heng Chen (China) Word length distribution in Chinese dialogue and prose texts
14:30 Belinda Hasanaj, Erin Purnell and Patrick Juola (United States) Cross-linguistic transference of authorship attribution
14:30 Narisong Jin (China) Word length and word frequency in Mongolian
15:00 Jan Rybicki (Poland) Translations in networks: the (in)visibility of translator styles
15:00 Adriana Pagano (Brazil), Giacomo Figueredo (Brazil) and Annabelle Lukin (Australia) Modelling proximity in a corpus of literary retranslations: A methodological proposal for clustering texts based on systemic-functional annotation of lexicogrammatical features
15:30 Coffee break
Session 8a (Auditorium Maximum) Session 8b (Carolina)
16:00 Wei Huang (China) Word frequency distribution in genres of modern Chinese
16:00 Andrei Beliankou (Germany) Distributional models of the verbal predicate-argument structure
16:30 Andrij Rovenchak (Ukraine) Quantitative studies in the corpus of Nko periodicals
16:30 Haruko Sanada (Japan) A co-occurrence and an order of the valency in Japanese sentences
17:00 Sergey Andreev (Russian Federation) Quantitative analysis of poetic space: discrimination of loci in Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
18:00 – 19:30 IQLA Council Business Meeting
20:00 Informal meeting and barbecue in University gardens
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Session 9a (Auditorium Maximum) Session 9b (Carolina)
09:00 Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Shunsuke Aihara (Japan) Quantitative verification of constancy measures of texts
09:00 Relja Vulanovic and Tatjana Hrubik-Vulanovic (United States) Grammar efficiency and the idealization of parts-of-speech systems
09:30 Kateřina Veselovská and Radek Čech (Czech Republic) Opinion target identification using thematic concentration of the text
09:30 Xinying Chen (China) Using language network characteristics to do text classification
10:00 Betsy Sneller (United States) Comparative rates of change as a diagnostic of vowel phonologization
10:00 Vasiliy Poddubnyy and Anatoliy Polikarpov (Russian Federation) Evolutionary derivation of Laws for polysemic and age-polysemic distributions of language signs ensembles
10:30 Coffee break
Session 10 (Auditorium Maximum)
11:00 Jacques Savoy (Switzerland)
Authorship attribution using political speeches
11:30 George Mikros and Kostas Perifanos (Greece)
Gender identification in modern Greek tweets
12:00 Rafał L. Górski, Maciej Eder and Jan Rybicki (Poland)
Stylistic fingerprints, POS tags and inflected languages: a case study in Polish
12:30
Lunch break
Session 11 (Auditorium Maximum)
13.30 Adam Pawłowski (Poland)
The Krylov Law as a tool for comparative lexicology. The example of Polish 19th century dictionaries
14:00 Dylan Glynn (France)
Modelling multidimensional polysemy networks. The case of /over/
14:30 Lu Wang (Germany)
Polyfunctionality and polysemy in Chinese
15:00 Coffee break
Session 12 (Auditorium Maximum)
15:30 Aris Xanthos and Guillaume Guex (Switzerland) On the robust measurement of inflectional diversity
16:00 Petra Steiner (Germany) Diversification in the noun inflection of old English
16:30 Gemma Bel-Enguix (France), Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho (Spain) and Kirsten Bonn (USA) The dependency between the variance of word length and word frequency 17:00 Closing remarks and disccussion
18:00 Trip to Bouzov Castle and conference closing banquet
Sunday, June 1, 2014
11:00 – 13:30 Guided tour of Olomouc historic centre
Poster presentations:
Thursday 15:00
Miroslav Kubát and Vladimír Matlach (Czech Republic) Quantitative index text analyser (QUITA)
Dalibor Kučera and Jiří Haviger (Czech Republic) Quantitative psycholinguistic analysis of formal parameters of Czech text
Aimi Kuya (United Kingdom) Towards generalization of sociolinguistic distributions: English loanwords in contemporary written Japanese
Tereza Motalová and Lenka Spáčilová (Czech Republic) Testing language units of written Chinese via Menzerath-Altmann Law
Jana Ščigulinská and Denisa Schusterová (Czech Republic) Testing language units of spoken Chinese via Menzerath-Altmann Law
Yong Wang, Haotian Li and Haitao Liu A study on quantitative properties of Russian visual poems
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