[Corpora-List] Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-2) at Corpus Linguistics 21013 - CALL FOR PAPERS

[Hardie, Andrew]

(Please circulate! Apologies for any multiple postings. --AH)

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Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-2)
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Workshop in conjunction with the Corpus Linguistics 2013 conference
   Monday 22nd July 2013 - Lancaster University, UK
   http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php#wacl2

Keynote speaker:
   Claire Brierley, University of Leeds -- "Natural Language Processing
   working together with Arabic and Islamic Studies"

Organisers:
   Eric Atwell, University of Leeds 
   Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University


CALL FOR PAPERS
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We invite proposals for the full-day Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus 
Linguistics, to be held in conjunction with the **CORPUS LINGUISTICS 
2013** conference. Following on from the successful first WACL in 2011
(http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wacl), as well as the related event LRE-REL 
in 2012 (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel.html), WACL-2 
will again take place at Lancaster University.

The aim of this series of workshops is to create a venue for exploring 
progress in the field of research into the Arabic language using 
corpora, from across the many areas of corpus linguistics and 
computational linguistics where the analysis of Arabic structure and 
usage is an active issue.

The scope of the workshop encompasses both (a) the design, construction
and annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora in 
research on the Arabic language - in any relevant area, including (but 
not limited to!) lexis and lexicography, syntax, collocation, NLP 
systems and analysis tools, contrastive and historical studies, 
stylistics, and discourse analysis. All varieties of Arabic - including
the different Colloquial Arabics as well as Classical/Qur'anic and 
Modern Standard forms of the language - are within the workshop's 
purview.

Abstracts for presentations are invited on any of these areas, or on 
any other topic related to the study of Arabic-language corpora. 
Presentations either describing finished research or reporting work 
in progress are welcome. Submissions from postgraduate students are 
especially welcome.

Abstracts should be up to 600 words; presentations will be in the 
usual format (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for 
questions). 

Please submit abstracts by email to Andrew Hardie 
(a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk). Please use the same abstract format 
prescribed by the main conference - a template can be found at 
http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/submission/template . Acceptable file 
formats are Microsoft Word .doc(x), RTF, or OpenDocument text 
(.odt). Please use Unicode characters for any Arabic text examples. 
All abstracts should be in English rather than Arabic; English will be 
the language of the workshop. 

  Please note that we will not accept for WACL-2 any abstract which 
  has also been submitted to the main CL2013 conference in verbatim 
  form. We are happy to consider submissions arising from a research 
  project which is also being presented at the main conference, but the
  content must not be identical or overlap substantially. For example, 
  it might be appropriate to submit to WACL-2 a presentation focusing 
  on matters of interest to Arabic specialists, while submitting an 
  abstract of broader methodological or theoretical interest to the 
  main conference.

Key dates:

*  Closing date for abstracts: Monday February 25th 2013
*  Responses to abstract submission: before Monday March 1st 2013.

Registration:

Participants should register for the workshop day via the CL2013 
website (this can be done in addition to, or independently of, 
registration for the main conference). Registration opens on 
February 15th 2013. See this page for details: 
  http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php

Workshop webpage:
  http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php#wacl2


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