[Corpora-List] Corpus Linguistics 2007 Final Call for Papers

[Susan Hunston]

With Apologies for Cross-Postings

Corpus Linguistics 2007

July 27-30 2007

University of Birmingham, UK

Third and Final Call for Papers


This is the final call for papers for the Corpus Linguistics 2007 conference to be held at the University of Birmingham, 27-30 July 2007. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 20th January 2007.

LATEST NEWS: PUBLICATION OF CONFERENCE PAPERS
By popular demand, papers from Corpus Linguistics 2007 will be published on the web by September 2007. Conditions: final versions of papers, correctly formatted, must be submitted by 1st July 2007; author(s) must have registered for the conference by the same date. 

Abstracts are invited for presentations at the conference. Four categories of abstracts are invited:

Papers. Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes. Paper Abstracts should be no more than 300 words.

Posters. Poster Abstracts should be no more than 200 words.

Colloquia. These usually take the form of between 4 and 8 papers, with time for audience discussion. We will accommodate short colloquia (2 hours, about 4 speakers) and longer colloquia (4 hours, about 8 speakers). Colloquium Abstracts should be no more than 1000 words (for colloquia of 2 hours) or 2000 words (for colloquia of 4 hours). The abstract should include a rationale for the colloquium, an indication of how much of the time will be allocated to audience discussion, and an abstract for each of the proposed papers. 

Workshops. These usually include one or two short presentations and substantial audience participation. We will accommodate short workshops (1 hour) and longer workshops (2 hours). Workshop Abstracts should be no more than 300 words (for a workshop of 1 hour) or 600 words (for a workshop of 2 hours) and should describe the organisation of the workshop and the nature of the audience participation.

All abstracts should be in English, though we encourage proposals for colloquia to be given in languages other than English.

Closing date for abstracts: 20th January 2007.


To submit an abstract, go to the following URL and follow the instructions.

https://www.softconf.com/starts/CL07/submit.html 

Conference website: www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference2007

Contact email address: CL2007 at contacts.bham.ac.uk