[Corpora-List] EURALEX 2004: Second Call for Papers

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This call is being sent to several lists in both English and French. We apologise for cross-postings.
Cet appel sera envoyé à plusieurs listes en anglais et français. Nous nous excusons pour les envois multilples.

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EURALEX 2004

Second Call for Papers
The 11th EURALEX International Congress will be held in Lorient, France, from the 6 to the 10th July, 2004. The Congess organizers are the Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient.

The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests.

Up-to-date information can be found at: http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004

Topics
Papers, posters, and software demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields, which are the main focus of the congress:

  1.. Computational Lexicography and Lexicology. 
  2.. The Dictionary-Making Process. 
  3.. Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects. 
  4.. Bilingual Lexicography. 
  5.. Lexicography for Specialised Languages - Terminology and Terminography. 
  6.. Historical and Scholarly Lexicography and Etymology. 
  7.. Dictionary Use. 
  8.. Phraseology and Collocation. 
  9.. Lexicological Issues of Lexicographical Relevance. 
  10.. Other topics.
The main topics are not meant to exclude any lexicographic topic. Papers, posters, and demonstrations that are relevant to the congress, but which do not fit into any of the categories 1-9, will be reviewed nonetheless and considered for presentation.

Papers 

Individual presentations should be timed for 30 minutes, and will be followed by a 10-minute discussion period. 

Short papers and project notes 

There will be opportunities for short papers and project notes. These will be allowed 20 minutes with a 10-minute discussion period. 

There are no restrictions on language of presentations, but unfortunately it is not possible to offer interpretation.

Software demonstrations
We are particularly interested in well-prepared software demonstrations, presentations of electronic dictionaries, corpora, tools, etc. These demonstrations will be allowed a 20-minute time slot at the congress (they may possibly be presented twice). Technical facilities will be available.

Posters
A poster session is planned. Appropriate facilities will be provided on the Congress site.

Submissions
Submissions may be one of the following types: Contributed papers, Software demonstrations, Posters.

All submissions will be reviewed by two or three members of the referees panel. The programme will be selected by the programme committee. Submissions proposing software demonstrations should include a description of the functions, underlying approach and implementation of the software, possibly an indication of a URL, and hardware/software requirements.

Authors should send five hard copies before 30th October 2003. In addition, a compacted electronic version by email would be appreciated. Email submission may be used, but the hardcopy submission in five copies is mandatory.

Format
Contributed Papers: 6-8 pages, double-spaced;

Software Demonstrations: 4 pages, double-spaced;

Posters: 1-2 pages, double-spaced;

Front page:

  a.. Title of the paper/software demonstration/poster; 
  b.. Name(s), affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s); 
  c.. Abstract (10-15 lines); 
  d.. In the top right corner: indication of the topic category. If your paper does not fit into any of the main categories, please use 10.
Authors whose submissions are accepted will receive a style guide for the preparation of the (electronic) final version of the paper to be published in the Proceedings immediately before the congress. Contributed papers will be allowed up to 10 pages: papers relating to Software Demonstrations c. 5 pages, in a separate section of the Proceedings.

Important Dates
30th October 2003: Deadline for receipt of preliminary versions of papers by congress organisers.

1st February 2004: Despatch of notifications of acceptance/rejection.

15th March 2004: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.

Contact address
Congress Organizers EURALEX 2004

Dr. Geoffrey Williams

Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines

4 rue Jean Zay

B.P. 92116

56321 Lorient cedex

France

Email : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr

Website : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004

The information at this location will be kept up to date.

Programme Committee: Geoffrey Williams (F), Anna Braasch (DK), Frantisek Cermák (CZ), Krista Varantola (FIN) Henri Béjoint (F). Reviewers will include the above, the members of the EURALEX Executive Board, and additional experts.

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