[Corpora-List] Practical Applications in Language and Computers - Extended Deadline

[PALC Organising Committee]

Extended deadline for abstract submission for PALC 2009 (Practical 
Applications in Language and Computers). 

In response to many requests, we have decided to
extend the deadline for submitting papers until January 31, 2009. More details
can be found at the conference website http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl/. 

TOPICS: 
The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
* Discourse and Language Corpora
* ESP and Language Corpora
* Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems
* FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
* Language Teaching Materials and Language (Learner) Corpora/ICT
* Virtual Learning Environments
* E-testing
* Large (multilingual/multimodal) Corpora
* Lexicography and Language Corpora
* Cognition, Computers and Language
* Computer Translation Tools
* Machine Translation, Machine-aided Translation, Translation and Corpora
* E-books and Corpora and Literature

WORKSHOP SESSIONS:

*Combinatorics (patterning) in specialized discourses (organized by Stanisław 
Goźdź-Roszkowski
* E-learning (organized by Jacek Waliński & Przemek Krakowian)
* Exploring National Corpora (organized by Piotr Pęzik and Łukasz Dróżdż)

In addition, a special session on Slavic corpora will be held on 8 April 2009. 
Vladimir A. Plungjan, the head of the Russian National Corpus has accepted our 
invitation to open this session with a special lecture.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:
The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the
conference as plenary speakers:

* Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
* Lou Burnard, Oxford University, UK
* Mark Davies, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
* Ken Hyland, University of London, UK
* Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
* Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Margaret Rogers, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK


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Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics
University of Lodz
Email: palc at uni.lodz.pl
http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl
phone 48 42 6655220
fax    48 42 6655221


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