[Corpora-List] BAAL/CUP Seminar: 'Discourse and Technology: Tools, Methods and Applications'

[Nicholas Groom]

Call for Papers and Participants

British Association for Applied Linguistics/Cambridge University Press sponsored seminar:

'Discourse and Technology: Tools, Methods and Applications'

17 - 18 May 2012

Centre for English Language Studies and Centre for Corpus Research,
University of Birmingham, UK


INVITED SPEAKERS:

Rachele De Felice (School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK);

Gregory Garretson (Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden);

Oliver Mason (Department of English, University of Birmingham, UK);

Paul Rayson (School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK).


AIMS:

The aims of this seminar are:

1. To share knowledge and develop ideas about new and existing tools and methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing which may be relevant and useful to scholars carrying out empirical research in discourse analysis;

2. To demonstrate the practical and theoretical value of using such tools and methods in discourse research in applied linguistics;

3. To act as the starting point for a new informal network of researchers working in this area;

4. To generate a series of thematically-related papers that will form the basis for a book proposal or journal special issue.


ORGANISATION AND COSTS:

The seminar will be restricted to a maximum of 25 participants, including the four invited speakers mentioned above. This is in order to allow for longer papers with more time for discussion, and to allow the seminar to include a mixture of hands-on and more traditional presentation formats.

The cost of the seminar is £40 for BAAL members, students and the unwaged, and £50 for non-BAAL members. (Please feel free to forward this message to any non-BAAL members whom you think might be interested in attending.) This fee includes lunches and refreshments. There will also be an optional seminar dinner on the evening of 17th May, which will cost an additional £10.

Full details and an application form are available on request from the seminar organiser, Nicholas Groom <n.w.groom at bham.ac.uk<mailto:n.w.groom at bham.ac.uk>>. Registration is now open, and is on a first-pay-first-served basis. The closing date for registrations is 30 April 2012, but please note that participant numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 25, so you are strongly advised to register early in order to guarantee your place.

Presentations at this event are mainly by invitation. However, we have left a small number of presentation slots open, so if you are interested in presenting a paper at this event, please send an abstract of 200 - 300 words together with your application form.

We are also pleased to be able to offer one scholarship place for a postgraduate student presenter. The recipient of the scholarship will have their seminar fee waived. Please indicate in your application whether you wish to be considered for this scholarship award.

We look forward to seeing you in Birmingham in May.

Nicholas Groom
Seminar organiser
Coordinator, BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group




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