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1)<br>Date: 12 Jan 2013<br>From:<span name="Hardie, Andrew" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hardie, Andrew</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk" target="_blank">a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject:2nd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-2)<br><br><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">==============================</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">=======================</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-2)</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">==============================</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">=======================</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics 2013 conference</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Monday 22nd July 2013 - Lancaster University, UK</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php#wacl2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php#wacl2</a><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Keynote speaker:</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Claire Brierley, University of Leeds -- "Natural Language Processing</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> working together with Arabic and Islamic Studies"</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Organisers:</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Eric Atwell, University of Leeds</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We invite proposals for the full-day Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Linguistics, to be held in conjunction with the **CORPUS LINGUISTICS</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2013** conference. Following on from the successful first WACL in 2011</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(</span><a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wacl" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wacl</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">), as well as the related event LRE-REL</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in 2012 (</span><a href="http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">), WACL-2</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">will again take place at Lancaster University.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The aim of this series of workshops is to create a venue for exploring</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">progress in the field of research into the Arabic language using</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">corpora, from across the many areas of corpus linguistics and</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">computational linguistics where the analysis of Arabic structure and</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">usage is an active issue.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The scope of the workshop encompasses both (a) the design, construction</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora in</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">research on the Arabic language - in any relevant area, including (but</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">not limited to!) lexis and lexicography, syntax, collocation, NLP</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">systems and analysis tools, contrastive and historical studies,</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">stylistics, and discourse analysis. All varieties of Arabic - including</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the different Colloquial Arabics as well as Classical/Qur'anic and</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Modern Standard forms of the language - are within the workshop's</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">purview.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstracts for presentations are invited on any of these areas, or on</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">any other topic related to the study of Arabic-language corpora.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Presentations either describing finished research or reporting work</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in progress are welcome. Submissions from postgraduate students are</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">especially welcome.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstracts should be up to 600 words; presentations will be in the</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">usual format (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">questions).</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please submit abstracts by email to Andrew Hardie</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(</span><a href="mailto:a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">). Please use the same abstract format</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">prescribed by the main conference - a template can be found at</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/submission/template" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/submission/template</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> . Acceptable file</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">formats are Microsoft Word .doc(x), RTF, or OpenDocument text</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(.odt). Please use Unicode characters for any Arabic text examples.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All abstracts should be in English rather than Arabic; English will be</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the language of the workshop.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Please note that we will not accept for WACL-2 any abstract which</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> has also been submitted to the main CL2013 conference in verbatim</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> form. We are happy to consider submissions arising from a research</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> project which is also being presented at the main conference, but the</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> content must not be identical or overlap substantially. For example,</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> it might be appropriate to submit to WACL-2 a presentation focusing</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> on matters of interest to Arabic specialists, while submitting an</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> abstract of broader methodological or theoretical interest to the</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> main conference.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Key dates:</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Closing date for abstracts: Monday February 25th 2013</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Responses to abstract submission: before Monday March 1st 2013.</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Registration:</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Participants should register for the workshop day via the CL2013</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">website (this can be done in addition to, or independently of,</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">registration for the main conference). Registration opens on</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">February 15th 2013. See this page for details:</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php</a><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop webpage:</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php#wacl2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php#wacl2</a><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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