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2 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/ and Linguistic a lexicostatistic analysis in cooperation with linguistics, mathematics, biology, psychology, grant no. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/ Both of these projects are financed by the European Social Fund and the national Budget of the Czech Republic.

3 QUALICO th anniversary of IQLA and Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (JQL) foundation Olomouc, Czech Republic, May 29 June 1, 2014 CONFERENCE PROGRAM Thursday, May 29, :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 Charzyoska 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

4 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) 09:00 Łukasz Dębowski (Poland) A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts 09:30 Marjolein Van Egmond and Sergey Avrutin (Netherlands) Defying Zipf's law 10:00 Xiaxing Pan and Hui Qiu (China) An Exploration of the Golden Section in Chinese Contemporary Poetries Session 5b (Carolina) 09:00 Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho (Spain) Towards a Mathematical Theory of Word Order Evolution 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 Song Gao (China) The study of text clustering based on Chinese Dependency Treebank 10:30 Coffee break

5 Session 6a (Auditorium Maximum) 11:00 Radek Čech (Czech Republic), Emmerich Kelih (Austria) and Jan Mačutek (Slovakia) Impact of semantics on case diversification Session 6b (Carolina) 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 12:00 Yanru Wang and Xinying Chen (China) Structural Complexity of Chinese Characters and Zipf's Law 11:30 Hermann Moisl (United Kingdom) Sentence semantics, word meaning, and nonlinear dynamics 12:00 Sven Naumann (Germany) Structural versus morphological coding. A cross-linguistic study 12:30 Lunch Session 7a (Auditorium Maximum) 14:00 Maciej Eder (Poland) Large-scale stylometry using network analysis 14:30 Belinda Hasanaj, Erin Purnell and Patrick Juola (United States) Cross-linguistic Transference of Authorship Attribution 15:00 Jan Rybicki (Poland) Translations in networks: the (in)visibility of translator styles Session 7b (Carolina) 14:00 Heng Chen (China) Word Length Distribution in Chinese Dialogue and Prose Texts 14:30 Narisong Jin (China) Word Length and Word Frequency in Mongolian 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) 16:00 Wei Huang (China) Word frequency distribution in genres of modern Chinese 16:30 Andrij Rovenchak (Ukraine) Quantitative studies in the corpus of Nko periodicals Session 8b (Carolina) 16:00 Andrei Beliankou (Germany) Distributional Models of the Verbal Predicate-Argument Structure 16:30 Haruko Sanada (Japan) A co-occurrence and an order of the valency in Japanese sentences

6 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) 09:00 Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Shunsuke Aihara (Japan) Quantitative Verification of Constancy Measures of Texts 09:30 Kateřina Veselovská and Radek Čech (Czech Republic) Opinion Target Identification Using Thematic Concentration of the Text 10:00 Betsy Sneller (United States) Comparative rates of change as a diagnostic of vowel phonologization Session 9b (Carolina) 09:00 Relja Vulanovic and Tatjana Hrubik- Vulanovic (United States) Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-Speech Systems 09:30 Xinying Chen (China) Using Language Network Characteristics to do Text Classification 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

7 12:30 Lunch break Session 11 (Auditorium Maximum) 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 Bohn (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, :00 13:30 Guided tour of Olomouc historic centre

8 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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