[Apologies for postings; please circulate this as appropriate.] CALL FOR PAPERS -- StylisticsMMX European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2010 (ESSLLI 2010 Workshop): Computational Stylistics: Beyond concordances and grammar checkers Methods of automatic text classification have been applied widely and extensively, ranging in category granularity and with respect to both solely internal properties of texts and text-external variables. Coarse-grained categories include binary distinctions such as spam vs. non-spam and three-way sentiment analysis of positive, negative or neutral, and at the other extreme, fine grained categories might derive from authorship attribution tasks or translation re-ranking in machine translation. Recent studies have sought to relate internal linguistic features of texts with external variables, such as author gender or scores on personality indices. Approaches driven by statistics amassed over corpora are compatible with (and informed by) precision analyses over selected texts, as practiced widely in the digital humanities and some approaches to discourse representation theory. Neither the "macro" level analysis supplied by corpus linguistics nor the "micro" level analysis of individual texts is in any way new. However, the potential for their interaction, and for assessing supra-lexical linguistic features of texts within stylistic analysis is growing. The aim of this workshop is to highlight current work that advances and applies computational stylistics. Papers sought for presentation will address any of the topics related to the theme of the workshop, including: - relations between demographic and linguistic variables - reliability and validity of complexity and other indices - plot structure analysis - sentiment, theme and semantic relation analysis - dramatis personae analysis - tracking stylistic change - cross-cultural variations in effects Each of ten to fifteen presentations will have a tutorial element situating the problem and hypotheses explored, as well as spelling out the methods of analysis, followed by the main substance of the research findings. Thus, the workshop proposes pedagogical value appropriate to ESSLLI, at the same time as recording recent research advances. TIMELINE: Call for Papers -- November 15, 2009 Submission Deadline -- March 15, 2010 Notice of Acceptance or Rejection -- April 15, 2010 Final Submissions -- May 15, 2010 ESSLLI2010 -- August 9-20, 2010 FORMATTING and SUBMISSION DETAILS: Final versions will be formatted using LaTeX via a style sheet made available here: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/research_groups/clg/StylisticsMMX Submit pdf of full papers not exceeding 12 pages (inclusive of bibliography and appendices) in 11 point text via EasyChair to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stylisticsmm10 IMPORTANT NOTE about the European Summer School in Logic Language and Information: Authors of accepted papers to ESSLLI workshops must register as participants in the whole of ESSLLI, even if they intend to participate in only the week of ESSLLI in which the workshop is scheduled. Traditionally, presenters of papers accepted to workshops have been allowed to register with fees set at the student early-registration rate. Further details on ESSLLI 2010 are here: http://esslli2010cph.info/ StylisticsMMX Program Committee: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Patrick Juola, Duquesne University Fionn Murtagh, Science Foundation Ireland & Royal Holloway, University of London Harold Somers, Dublin City University/University of Manchester Sarah Rauchas, Goldsmiths, University of London Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University Carl Vogel [Chair], Trinity College Dublin