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<pre>Dear Colleagues,
The Institute of English Studies at the University of Łódź is proud to announce that the 9th international conference on <a href="http://palc.uni.lodz.pl/">PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF LANGUAGE CORPORA (PALC 2014)</a> will be held over 3 days, 20 to 22 November 2014 (arrival day 19 November), at the University of Lodz Conference Centre in Łódź, Poland.
TOPICS
A special theme of this year’s PALC edition will be the applications of corpora and corpus linguistics methods in social sciences and humanities. Special thematic sessions are planned on the following topics:
- Corpora in Social Sciences and Humanities
- Corpus Approaches to Evaluative Language
- Diachronic Corpus Studies
- Uncovering Time in Language
We also accept paper proposals on the following topics:
- Corpus-based Computational Linguistics
- Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
- Discourse and Language Corpora
- ESP and Language Corpora
- Corpus Search and Retrieval Systems
- FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
- Learner Corpora
- Multimodal Corpora
- Lexicography and Language Corpora
- Translation and Corpora
- Corpus-based Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Methods
PLENARY SPEAKERS
prof. Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham, UK)
prof. Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)
prof. Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, UK)
prof. John Osborne (University of Savoie, France)
prof. Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
CONTACT
PALC 2014 website: <a href="http://palc.uni.lodz.pl/">http://palc.uni.lodz.pl/</a>
E-mail: palc@uni.lodz.pl</pre>
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