29.696, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.696, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:21:57
From: Ute Roemer [uroemer at gsu.edu]
Subject: American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference

 
Full Title: American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: AACL 2018 

Date: 20-Sep-2018 - 22-Sep-2018
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA 
Contact Person: Ute Roemer
Meeting Email: aacl2018 at gsu.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL (http://alsl.gsu.edu/) at
Georgia State University (GSU) is excited to host the 14th Conference of the
American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), 20-22 September 2018 on
the GSU main campus in downtown Atlanta, GA. Please mark your calendars!
Previous conferences of the American Association for (Applied) Corpus
Linguistics have been held at different universities in North America starting
in 1999: Northern Arizona University (2014, 2006, 2000), Iowa State University
(2016), San Diego State University (2013), Georgia State University (2011),
University of Alberta, Canada (2009), Brigham Young University (2008),
University of Michigan (1999, 2005), Montclair State University (2004),
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (2002), and University of
Massachusetts-Boston (2001).

We are proud to have the following keynote speakers at AACL 2018:
• Tony Berber Sardinha, Catholic University of São Paulo
• Bethany Gray, Iowa State University
• Stefan Gries, University of California at Santa Barbara

The conference will feature pre-conference workshops, plenary talks, and paper
and poster presentation sessions.

Feel free to email the conference co-chairs at aacl2018 at gmail.com if you have
any questions. We hope you will consider joining us for AACL 2018 in Atlanta! 
Viviana Cortes, Eric Friginal, Ute Römer (AACL 2018 co-chairs)


Final Call for Papers:

Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2018

14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference
September 20-22, 2018 in Atlanta, GA

Proposal submission for paper and poster presentations for the AACL 2018
conference closes on February 15. We look forward to receiving your
proposals!! Conference website: http://alsl.gsu.edu/2018-aacl-conference/
(information on registration, travel, accommodation etc. will be added in the
spring).

The conference will feature pre-conference workshops, plenary talks, and paper
and poster presentation sessions.

Important Dates:

15 February 2018: Deadline for submission of abstracts
31 March 2018: Notification of decisions on abstracts
20 September 2018: Registration and pre-conference workshops
21-22 September 2018: Conference

Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit
abstracts of 250 to 300 words (not including references) for 25-minute papers
(20 minute presentation + 5 minutes for questions) and posters on any aspect
of corpus linguistics. Abstracts will undergo anonymous review.

Papers and posters are welcome from a range of subfields in three categories:

1. Tools and methods (corpus creation, corpus annotation, tagging and parsing,
visualization of large data sets, open source corpora, software development)
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)
3. Application (the use of corpora in language teaching and learning).

Abstract submission:

Please submit your abstract through our EasyChair conference page at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aacl2018 . If your abstract contains
any specialized fonts or special formatting, please submit it as a PDF file. 
The deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2018.

Feel free to email the conference co-chairs at aacl2018 at gmail.com if you have
any questions. We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Viviana Cortes, Eric Friginal, Ute Römer (AACL 2018 co-chairs)




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