Corpora: The COMPLEX Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

[Pernilla Danielsson]

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                               COMPLEX 2001
       6th Conference on Computational Lexicography and Corpus Research

               "Computational Lexicography and New EU Languages"

                              Birmingham, UK
                             28 - 30 June 2001

                       Centre for Corpus Linguistics
                           Department of English
                        The University of Birmingham

Research Institute for Linguistics                  Laboratoires d'Automatique
Hungarian Academy of Sciences                       Documentaire et Linguistique
                                                    University Paris

The organisers invite the submission of papers for COMPLEX 2001, to be organised
 in Birmingham, UK from 28 - 30 June 2001.

We invite papers on computational, corpus-based lexicography and its application
 to the new EU languages including, but not limited, the following areas:
- corpus-based lexicography
- parallel and comparable corpora
- translation equivalence
- the semantics of corpus linguistics
- corpus software

A detailed abstract of the proposed paper, not exceeding 400 words, should be se
nt in electronic form to Pernilla Danielsson by February 28th 2001 to the follow
ing e-mail address: pernilla at clg.bham.ac.uk

All papers will be reviewed by the following programme committee:
        Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana, Slovenia
        Gaston Gross, Paris, France
        Ferenc Kiefer, Budapest, Hungary
        Ruta Marcinkeviciene, Kaunas, Lithuania
        Julia Pajzs, Budapest, Hungary
        Pernilla Danielsson, Birmingham, UK
        Wolfgang Teubert, Birmingham, UK

Authors will be notified about the acceptance or rejection of their paper by the
 end of March 2001.  The deadline for submitting a final version, (not exceeding
 10 pages) of the papers accepted for the volume of proceedings is 15 May 2001.
 The timeslot given for presentations will be 30 minutes (including 10 minutes f
or discussions).

The registration fee for the conference is GBP200.  There is a reduced fee of GB
P100 for participants coming from the former socialist countries.  For early reg
istration before 15 April 2001, the fee will be GBP150 and GBP75 respectively.

Detailed information about accommodation possibilities and prices, a complete li
st of the keynote speakers, information about pre-conference workshop and furthe
r details will be given in the second circular.