<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">FIRST CALL FOR
PAPERS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">5th
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CORPUS LINGUISTICS: </span><span lang="EN-CA">Corpus Resources for Descriptive and Applied
studies: Current Challenges and Future Directions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">(CILC2013)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">14-16 March 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://web.ua.es/cilc2013" target="_blank">http://web.ua.es/<i>cilc2013</i></a><i></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">University Institute of Modern Applied Languages</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">UNIVERSITY</span><span lang="EN-US">
OF ALICANTE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The Spanish
Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO) and the local Organizing Committee
are pleased to announce that the 5th International Conference on Corpus
Linguistics (CILC2013) will be hosted by the University Institute of Modern
Applied Languages at the University
of Alicante on 14 to 16
March 2013.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Since corpus work has taken on a more relevant
role in descriptive and applied studies on the various facets of language,
availability and variety of electronic corpus and tools for their exploitation
and analysis have proliferated and many more are on the horizon. The availabity
</span><span lang="EN-CA">of such diverse resources
offers many opportunities for researchers, language professionals, and language
services providers. However, learning to use and apply these resources still
poses serious challenges. The theme for this conference edition is 'Corpus
Resources for Descriptive and Applied Studies: Current Challenges and Future
Directions.' and its aim is to promote the submission of proposals for oral
presentations and posters on issues related to:</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">New
theoretical issues arising from the work with corpus in the current scenario </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Applications
of corpora for terminology, translation, lexicography, teaching and language
acquisition, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The
creation of corpus and its exploitation in descriptive and applied research</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The
use of technologies for the analysis of texts for different purposes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Advances
in computer technology for the compilation, use and analysis of corpus. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Corpus
and ICT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">CILC2013 is
pleased to welcome the following plenary speakers who have already confirmed
their participation:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Dr. Nuria Bel, IULA, Barcelona</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Federico Zanettin, University of Perugia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Hilary Nesi,
Coventry University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Elena
Tognini-Bonelli, University
of Siena</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Dr. Adam
Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing, Ltd.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">As in previous
editions, two pre-conference workshops will be held on Wednesday 13 March 2013.
The first one will deal with ‘Tools and techniques for using multilingual
corpora in translation’, and the second one with ‘Corpus-based language
learning/teaching’. More detailed information will be provided in the second call.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The Organizing
Committee of CILC2013 invites scholars and researchers to submit paper and
poster proposals (abstracts) related to the theme of this edition, within any
one of the following nine thematic panels established by AELINCO:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Corpus design,
compilation and types, chaired by Dr. Francisco Alonso Almeida,
Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Discourse, literary analysis and
corpora, chaired by Dr. José Luis Oncins, Universidad de Extremadura. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Corpus-based grammatical studies,
chaired by Dr. Isabel Moskowich Universidade da Coruña.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Corpus-based lexicology and
lexicography, chaired by Dr. Pedro Fuertes Olivera,
Universidad de Valladolid. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Corpora, contrastive </span>studies and translation, chaired by Dr. María
de los Ángeles Gómez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Corpora and
linguistic variation, chaired by Dr. María José López Couso, Universidade
de Santiago de Compostela. </li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Corpus-based
computational linguistics, chaired by Dr. Antonio Moreno Sandoval,
Departamento de Lingüística, Lenguas Modernas, Lógica y Filosofía de la
Ciencia – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Corpora, language acquisition and
teaching, chaired by Dr. Raquel Criado Sánchez, Universidad de Murcia.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Special uses of
corpus linguistics, chaired by Dr. Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas,
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. </li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Guidelines and deadline for abstract submissions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Meeting Dates: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The CILC2013
will be held on 14-16 March 2013.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Abstract Submission Information: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Abstracts can be
submitted from 3-July-2012 until 14-Jan-2013.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Paper and poster
proposals must be abstracts written in English or Spanish, and should contain
between 500 and 550 words (excluding references).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Abstracts must
be in MSWord (doc or docx). The file name should contain at least the first
three words of the title followed by “_text” (e.g.,
Corpus_driven_studies_text.doc/docx).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The author’s
name or affiliation must not be included anywhere in this file.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Abstracts must
be submitted through an Easy Abs link: <a href="http://goo.gl/ULQ9T" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/ULQ9T</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">When filling out
the abstract submission form in EasyAbs, please choose only one panel and only
one type of contribution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Abstract Rating Information: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Submitted
Abstracts will be reviewed from 15-Jan-2013 until 11-Feb-2013. Authors will be
notified of their acceptance after 11-Feb-2013. However, if the abstract is
submitted before 15<sup>th</sup> December, there would be an earlier response
of acceptance/rejection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">We look forward
to your contributions and to meeting you in Alicante next year!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Kind regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Alicante, 2 July 2012. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Chelo Vargas-Sierra (<a href="mailto:cilc@ua.es" target="_blank">cilc@ua.es</a>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">José Mateo-Martínez</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Marian Aleson-Carbonell</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Raquel Martínez-Motos</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Eva Llorens-Simón</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Daniel Gallego-Hernández</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Isabel Santamaría-Pérez</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">María Tabuenca-Cuevas</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p>