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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The <b>American Association for Corpus Linguistics</b> (AACL) calls for proposals for paper presentations at their next conference in <b>San Diego, January 18-20, 2013</b>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Previous conferences of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics have been held at different universities in the United States since 1998, including the University of Michigan (1999, <a href="http://robfelty.com/design/archives/corpusconference/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">2005</span></a>), Northern Arizona University (2000, 2006), University of Massachusetts-Boston (<a href="http://lloyd.emich.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0010&L=corpora&D=1&H=1&F=&S=&P=3097" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">2001</span></a>), IUPUI (<a href="http://w3.liberalarts.iupui.edu/aaacl/index.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">2002</span></a>), Montclair State (<a href="http://www.chss.montclair.edu/linguistics/aaacl/index.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">2004</span></a>), Brigham Young University (2008), University of Alberta (2009), and Georgia State University (2011). In 2013, the conference will be hosted by San Diego State University (<a href="http://sdsu.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://sdsu.edu</a>).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of corpus linguistics. Abstracts will undergo anonymous review.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Papers are welcome from a range of subfields in three categories:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1) Tools and methods (corpus creation, corpus annotation, tagging and parsing, visualization of large data sets, open source corpora (philosophy and practice), software development);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2) Linguistic analyses of corpora as they relate to language use (register/genre as well as lexical and grammatical variation, language varieties, parallel corpora, historical change, lexicography);<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Abstract details</span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cover page</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">: Author(s) name(s); Affiliation; Contact information; Paper title; Category (see above)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The conference organizers request that authors limit themselves to presenting only one paper, and to being the first author on only one paper. If several submissions are planned in which one individual appears as a co-author, please ensure that these guidelines are followed.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submit abstracts to <b><a href="mailto:aacl2013@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">aacl2013@gmail.com</a> </b>by <b>September 9, 2012</b>. In the subject line of your email, please indicate the category your paper would most likely fit in (see categories above).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Important dates</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">September 9 Deadline for submission of abstracts<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">October 1 Early registration opens<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">October 9 Notification of decisions on abstracts<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">November 1 Preliminary schedule posted<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">November 15 Early registration closes<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">November 16 – December 15 Regular registration period<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">December 15 – January 17 Late registration period<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">January 18 – 20 Conference (Registration on site)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please check the conference website (<a href="http://aacl.sdsu.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://aacl.sdsu.edu/</a>) for further details.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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