<div dir="ltr"><pre style><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">The 9th international conference on </span><a href="http://palc.uni.lodz.pl/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF LANGUAGE CORPORA (<span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)">PALC</span> 2014)</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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.</span><br>
</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>TOPICS</b><br></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We accept presentation proposals on the following topics:
- General corpus-based 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</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A special theme of this year’s <span class="" style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">PALC</span> 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
<b>PLENARY SPEAKERS</b>
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)
<br></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SUBMISSION DEADLINE</font></b></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Abstracts of papers should be up to approx. 600 words long and submitted by e-mail to the organisers. The deadline for abstract submission is 10 September 2014.
<b>CONTACT</b>
<span class="" style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">PALC</span> 2014 website: <a href="http://palc.uni.lodz.pl/" target="_blank">http://<span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)">palc</span>.uni.lodz.pl/</a>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:palc@uni.lodz.pl" target="_blank"><span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)">palc</span>@uni.lodz.pl</a></font></pre></div>