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<div>The Universities of Lancaster and Central Lancashire have the
honour of jointly-organizing the<br>
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<div><b>30th Annual Conference of the<br>
International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval
English.</b></div>
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The 30th ICAME conference will be held in Lancaster, UK<br>
- one of the founding institutions of ICAME -<br>
from 27-31 May 2009.<br>
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The focus of the conference in our special anniversary year will be
the achievements of the corpus linguistics community to date, and the
challenges that the ICAME community believe have yet to be faced.<br>
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<div>The conference will thus be entitled:<b> Looking back - moving
forward</b>.</div>
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<div><b>Conference Venue</b><br>
The conference will be held at Lancaster House Hotel, a 4-star hotel
located adjacent to Lancaster University campus. We have also booked a
limited number of ensuite rooms in nearby student accommodation.
Registration and information on conference costs will appear in a
second circular and on our website towards the end of 2008:
http://www.icame30.info/<br>
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<div><b>Academic Programme</b><br>
The program will consist of full papers, work-in-progress reports, a
poster session, software demonstrations and a discussion panel, as
well as invited plenary talks. The following speakers have already
agreed to give plenaries at the conference:</div>
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<div>- Nick Ellis (University of Michigan)</div>
<div>- Yueguo Gu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)</div>
<div>- Geoffrey Pullum (University of Edinburgh)</div>
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<div>In addition, there will be a plenary event by Stig Johansson and
Geoffrey Leech, commemorating the history of ICAME on the occasion of
its 30th meeting.</div>
<div>A discussion panel on "Issues in Historical Corpus
Linguistics" will be chaired by Christian Mair. There will also
be pre-conference workshops on "Errors and disfluencies in spoken
corpora" (Convenors: Sylvie de Cock and Gaëtanelle Gilquin) and
"Corpora and SLA" (Convenors: Ute Römer, Nick Ellis and
Fanny Meunier).</div>
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<b>Social Programme</b><br>
There will be an excursion to the Lake District on Friday afternoon,
followed by a dinner on Lake Windermere. There will be an opportunity
to indulge in fell-walking and to visit famous literary sites. A
post-conference excursion to the remarkable eighth-century Ruthwell
Cross (with its runic inscription dating from the earliest Old
English) will be organised by Geoffrey Leech. In addition, there will
also be an opportunity for some attendees of the conference to visit
the Hesketh Collection held in the rare book archive of Lancaster
University Library.<br>
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<div><b>Call for abstracts</b></div>
<div>Individual papers will be allowed 30 minutes, including 10
minutes for discussion; work-in-progress reports will be 15 minutes
long, including 5 minutes for discussion. The deadline for abstract
submission is 15th December 2008. Abstracts of 400-600 words in length
should be submitted online at http://www.icame30.info/abstracts.html.
On the form, please indicate whether your contribution is a paper, a
work-in-progress report, a poster or a software demonstration. All
abstracts will be blind reviewed; notifications of acceptance will be
sent out by 15th January 2009. Deadline for registration is 1st March
2009.</div>
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The local organising committee consists of:<br>
Dawn Archer<br>
Andrew Hardie<br>
Sebastian Hoffmann (chair)<br>
Geoffrey Leech<br>
Paul Rayson<br>
Anne Wichmann<br>
e-mail: contact@icame30.info</div>
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Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann<br>
Department of Linguistics and English Language<br>
Bowland College<br>
Lancaster University<br>
Lancaster LA1 4YT<br>
U.K.<br>
phone: +44 (0)1524 592254</div>
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