Corpora: Final call for papers: CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001

[Paul Rayson]

CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001

Lancaster University (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with
invited talks from:

Prof. Douglas Biber - "Historical shifts in modification patterns with
complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb?"
Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of
indirectness in political interviews"
Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees"
Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based
approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation"

Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the
computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition
of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on
substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as
more 'traditional' corpus linguists.

Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work
occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing)
and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the
latest developments in language processing. We also believe that language
engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists.

The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are:

1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in
different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped)
potential to interact.

2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics
and those using corpora in language engineering.

3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech.

Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for
this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the
conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at
various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and
Mick Short.

For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics
such as:

     corpus-based studies of any language level in any language
     contrastive corpus linguistics
     computer-aided studies of style
     corpus- or text-based lexicography
     corpus/text building, encoding and annotation
     development of corpus-based language engineering tools
     applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields
     (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology,
     psychology, etc.)

Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics
broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be considered.
Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference language will be
English.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers:

Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee
by 1st Dec 2000. As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should
include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including
e-mail and fax numbers). Electronic submissions are welcome.

Workshops:

Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by
1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organizers,
their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented
at the workshop. Workshop organizers should also indicate whether they
wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop.

Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in
detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected
papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of
Geoffrey Leech.

DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000

Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000

Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001

Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001 [Full details
will be sent with notices of acceptance.]

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Local committee

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)

General committee

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University)
Jock McNaught (UMIST)
Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University)
Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University)

ADDRESS

Programme Committee
Corpus Linguistics 2001
Department of Linguistics and MEL
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
UK

Tel: +44 1524 593024
Fax: +44 1524 843085
E-mail: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2000.html