Corpora: Third North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching

[Charles Meyer]

   ====Second Call for Papers====

The Third North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language
Teaching

 Sponsored by the American Association for Applied Corpus Linguistics

 Hosted by the Applied Linguistics Program
 University of Massachusetts at Boston

Questions about the conference should be sent to: corpconf at umb.edu

Date: March 23-25, 2001

Location: Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: December 1, 2000

Keynote speakers:

Doug Biber, Northern Arizona University
Susan Hockey, University College London

Call for Papers: The purpose of the conference is to bring together
individuals in North America and elsewhere doing research in corpus
linguistics. Appropriate topics for presentations include (but are not
limited to):

-the use of corpora in language learning and teaching
-linguistic analyses of synchronic or diachronic corpora
-corpus creation
-corpus annotation
-parallel corpora
-lexicography
-register/genre variation
-tagging/parsing
-concordancing
-software development

Presentations will be 20 minutes in length followed by 10 minutes of
questions/answers. Negotiations are currently underway to publish a book
containing select presentations from the proceedings.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send:

1) an abstract (250 words maximum)
2) your snail mail address, phone number, and e-mail address
3) a description of any software or hardware you will need

to the conference e-mail address: corpconf at umb.edu

If you'd prefer to send this information by snail mail, the address is:

 Corpus Linguistics Conference
 Applied Linguistics Program
 University of Massachusetts at Boston
 100 Morrissey Blvd.
 Boston, MA  02125-3393
 USA

Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 1, 2000
Notice of acceptance/rejection: January 15, 2001

Please see the conference web site for information on how to reserve a
hotel room and register for the conference:

http://www.cs.umb.edu/~meyer/conf/index.html