<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 9px; line-height: 16px; "><h2 style="font-size: 2em; ">Call for papers</h2><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">
The RILIVS initiative will arrange its first open workshop on language infrastructure this autumn. <br>We invite papers on the following topics, within the general area of language variation:</p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">
Language maps /cartography</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Corpus search interfaces and results handling</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Annotation (for grammar as well as for metadata)</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">
Standardization (fonts)</li></ul><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20. May 2009.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">
Abstracts should be sent to: <a href="mailto:jannebj@iln.uio.no" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">jannebj@iln.uio.no</a>.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">
Selected, reviewed papers will be published in the <a href="https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Oslo Studies of Language</a> series.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">
Confirmed invited speakers:</p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Hans-Jörg Bibiko (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Steven Krauwer (ELSNET / CLARIN / Utrecht University)</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University of Berlin)</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge)</li></ul><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">
</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">Confirmed local speakers:</p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo)</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">
Christian-Emil Ore (University of Oslo)</li></ul><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; "></p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">
The workshop will take place at the University of Oslo, on 17. and 18. September 2009.</p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 16px; ">Local organising committee:</p><ul>
<li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://folk.uio.no/jannebj/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Janne Bondi Johannessen</a> (chair, professor of language technology and linguistics)</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">
<a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/karlgj-eng.xml" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Karl-Gunnar Johansson</a> (associate professor of Old Norse)</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">
<a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/oddrung-eng.xml" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Oddrun Grønvik</a> (chief editor of Norsk Ordbok)</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/noklesta-eng.xml" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Anders Nøklestad</a> (language engineer)</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px; "><br></li></ul></span>WORKSHOP WEB PAGE: <a href="http://omilia.uio.no/rilivs/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">http://omilia.uio.no/rilivs/</a></span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
Janne Bondi Johannessen<br>Professor, The Text Laboratory, ILN<br>University of Oslo<br>P.O.Box 1102 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway<br>Tel: +47 22 85 68 14, mob.: +47 928 966 34<br><a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab">www.hf.uio.no/tekstlab</a><br>