<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Tue 23 Nov 2010<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Final CFP Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 23 Nov 2010<br>From: "Hardie, Andrew" <<a href="mailto:a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk">a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk</a>><br>Subject: Final CFP Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics<br><br>Second (and final) call for papers...<br><br>=====================================<br>WORKSHOP ON ARABIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS<br>=====================================<br><br>11th and 12th April 2011<br>Lancaster University, UK<br><br>Keynote speakers:<br>Eric Atwell, University of Leeds <br>Tony McEnery, Lancaster University<br><br><br>===============<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>===============<br><br><br>Over the past few years, research into the Arabic language <br>using corpora and corpus methods has moved from a new <br>direction to an active field, with work advancing rapidly on <br>many different fronts of both corpus linguistics and <br>computational linguistics. To create a venue where these <br>different directions on corpus research into Arabic can be <br>brought together to explore progress in the field, the UCREL <br>research centre at Lancaster University will host a <br>Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics in April 2011.<br><br>We are now inviting abstracts for this workshop. <br>Presentations either describing finished research or reporting <br>work in progress are welcome. The scope of the workshop <br>encompasses both (a) the design, construction and <br>annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora <br>in research on the Arabic language - in any relevant area, <br>including (but not limited to!) lexis and lexicography, syntax, <br>collocation, NLP systems and analysis tools, contrastive and <br>historical studies, stylistics, and discourse analysis.<br><br>Presentations are invited on any of these areas, or on any <br>other topic related to the study of Arabic-language corpora. <br>Submissions from postgraduate students are especially <br>welcome.<br><br>Abstracts should be 400 words or less; presentations will be <br>in the usual format (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 <br>minutes for questions). Please submit abstracts by email to <br>Andrew Hardie (<a href="mailto:a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk">a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk</a>). Acceptable formats <br>are PDF, Microsoft Word .doc(x), plain text, RTF, HTML, or <br>OpenDocument text (.odt). Please use Unicode characters for <br>any Arabic text examples. All abstracts should be in English <br>rather than Arabic; English will be the language of the workshop. <br><br>Dates:<br>* Closing date for abstracts: Monday December 6th 2010.<br>* Responses to abstract submission: before Monday December 13th 2010.<br>* Registration open from: Monday December 13th 2010.<br>* Event: Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th April 2011.<br><br>On the web: <a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/event/3406/">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/event/3406/</a> <br><br>Please feel free to circulate this CfP further.<br>We apologise for any cross-posting.<br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>Lancaster University, UK<br>UCREL: <a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk</a><br>Linguistics & English Language: <a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk</a> <br>Computing: <a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk</a> <br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 23 Nov 2010</body></html>