[Corpora-List] Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference

[Rayson, Paul]

CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2003

Lancaster University (UK), 28 March - 1 April 2003

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

Corpus Linguistics 2003 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 conference will include invited talks from:
Nicoletta Calzolari - Corpora and the lexicon
Michael Hoey - topic TBA
Susan Hunston - topic TBA
Nancy Ide - Everything you wanted to know about the American National Corpus
... but were afraid to ask

The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2003 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. 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 27th 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
2nd Dec 2002. 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 2nd
Dec 2002. 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. The proceedings will be
available to participants during the conference, and will be available
following the conference as a UCREL technical paper. Selected papers will
appear in an edited collection to be published.

DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstracts: 2 December 2002

Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 9 December 2002

Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 16 December 2002

Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2003 [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)
Paul Baker (Lancaster University)


General committee

Members to be confirmed.

ADDRESS

Programme Committee
Corpus Linguistics 2003
Department of Linguistics and MEL
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
UK

Tel: +44 1524 593024
Fax: +44 1524 843085
E-mail: cl2003 at comp.lancs.ac.uk or paul at comp.lancs.ac.uk
Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/