[Corpora-List] ** Final call for papers: American Association for Corpus Linguistics, BYU, March 2008

[Mark Davies]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

** Abstracts due Sep 28, 2007 **
 
American Association for Corpus Linguistics
Date: March 13-15, 2008
Place: Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah, USA
Website: http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008
 
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Invited speakers (alphabetical order):
 
Harald Baayen, University of Alberta (Canada)
Doug Biber, Northern Arizona University (United States)
Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham (UK)
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK)

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There will also be a pre-conference workshop:
CORPUS LINGUISTICS WITH R
led by Stefan Th. Gries and Harald Baayen
 
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General AA(A)CL Information
 
Previous conferences of the American Association for (Applied) Corpus
Linguistics have been held at different universities in the United
States since 1998, including Northern Arizona University (2006, 2000),
the University of Michigan (2005, 1999), Montclair State ( 2004), IUPUI
(2002), and Univ. Massachusetts-Boston (2001).
 
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Submission of Abstracts and Proposals
 
Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to
submit abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of corpus
linguistics. Papers are welcome from a range of subfields, including
corpus creation, corpus annotation, linguistic analyses of corpora,
register/genre variation, lexicography, parallel corpora, tagging and
parsing, software development, and the use of corpora in language
learning and teaching.
 
Abstracts are due Sep 28, 2007. Abstracts for 20-minute papers should be
no longer than 300 words. Abstracts and proposals should be submitted as
e-mail attachments in MS Word format to < aacl2008 at byu.edu >.
 
Abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Please provide author name and
contact info and the paper title in the body of the email to which the
abstract is attached, and omit author information from the abstract
itself. Please send abstracts as PDF files as well as MS Word files if
they contain any specialized fonts.
 
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Important dates: 
 
Sep 28 2007: Abstracts due
Oct 26 2007: Notification to presenters
Jan 25 2008: Registration due
Mar 13-15 2008: Conference


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