[Corpora-List] CFP: An International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia

[Yukio Tono]

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An International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia

Date: 13-March-2004 - 14-March-2004
Location: Tokyo, JAPAN
Contact: Yukio Tono
Contact Email: y.tono at meikai.ac.jp
Meeting URL:http://www.eng.ritsumei.ac.jp/icle-j/symposium/

Linguistic Sub-field: Corpus Linguistics, Second
Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 1-Feb-2004

Meeting Description:

This international symposium on learner corpora aims
to gather those involved in designing, compiling and using
corpora of second language learners for the purpose of
studying interlanguage features, second language acquisition,
and language teaching and learning, especially in Asian
contexts. The target language can be any language as long as
it is a corpus of L2 (second language) learners. We hope to
provide an opportunity among participants to share technical
and professional expertise they have in learner corpus
research in order to promote this exciting research
methodology for SLA researchers in English and other
languages.

This symposium is partially supported by the Ministry
of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid
for Scientific Research (B).

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Provisional program:

March 13 (Sat): hands-on tutorials
a) Using MonoConc & ParaConc for learner corpora
   by Michael Barlow (Auckland, NZ)
b) TagEditor: a supporting tool for transcription and
error tagging
   by Emi Izumi (CRL, JAPAN)
c) Using a standard XML editor and TEI for mark-up and error tagging
   by Knut Hofland (University of Bergen, Norway)

March 14 (Sun): paper presentation & colloquium
 10:00 - 15:00 Invited lectures & individual papers
 15:30 - 17:30 Colloquium

Invited speakers:

Michael Barlow
  University of Auckland, New Zealand
Knut Hofland
  University of Bergen, Norway
Hitoshi Isahara
  Communication Research Laboratory, Japan

Scientific Committee:

Yoshihiko Ikegami (Showa Women's University, Japan)
John Milton (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Knut Hofland (University of Bergen, Norway)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK)

Programme Committee:

Tomoko Kaneko (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Kojiro Asao (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Yukio Tono (Meikai University, Japan)
Takako Kobayashi (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Misuzu Takami (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Yoshimasa Ogawa (Showa Women's University, Japan)
Naoko Akahori (Showa Women's University, Japan)

Registration : the detail will appear on our dedicated website:
http://www.eng.ritsumei.ac.jp/icle-j/symposium/

Official language : English

Call for abstracts:
You are invited to submit proposals on any of the following topics:

- design issues of learner corpora
- annotations (including error tagging) of learner corpora
- error analysis and learner corpora
- using learner corpora for verifying SLA theories
- using learner corpora for describing interlanguage
- using learner corpora for language teaching
- tools for learner corpus creation & exploitation

Abstracts (200 - 300 words, including your name, affiliation,
contact address, email address) should be sent by email to
the following address:

   Yukio Tono
   y.tono at meikai.ac.jp

Important dates:
Call deadline: February 1st 2004
Notice of acceptance: February 10th 2004
Deadline of the extended abstract for the proceedings:
February 29th 2004

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Yukio Tono <tono at q05.itscom.net>