[Corpora-List] PALC 2009 First Call

Mon Jun 2 08:38:53 UTC 2008

PALC 2009 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics is proud to
announce that the 7th international conference on PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS (PALC 2009) will be held over 3 days, 6 to 8
April 2009 (arrival day 5 April) at the Lodz University Conference Centre
in Lodz, Poland.

For over a decade, the PALC conferences have served the international
community of corpus linguists by providing a useful forum for the exchange
of views and ideas on how corpora and computational tools can be
effectively employed to explore and advance our understanding of language.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
Discourse and Language Corpora
ESP and Language Corpora
Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems
FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
Language Teaching Materials and Language (Learner) Corpora/ICT
Virtual Learning Environments
E-testing
Large (multilingual/multimodal) Corpora
Lexicography and Language Corpora
Cognition, Computers and Language
Computer Translation Tools
Machine Translation, Machine-aided Translation, Translation and Corpora
E-books and Corpora and Literature

Workshop sessions:

Combinatorics (patterning) in specialized discourses (organized by
Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski

E-learning (organized by Jacek Waliński & Przemek Krakowian)

Exploring National Corpora (organized by Piotr Pęzik and Łukasz Dróżdż)

Official language of the conference will be English.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the
conference as plenary speakers:

Mark Davies, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
Ken Hyland, University of London, UK
Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Margaret Rogers, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki, Finland

ABSTRACTS
Abstracts of papers should be up to 500 words long and forwarded (by
e-mail or fax) to the organisers (see below). Deadline for submission is
31 December 2008. Presentations should last 30 minutes including
demonstrations, questions and discussion.

PROCEEDINGS
A selection of conference papers will be published with the Peter Lang as
part of the Łódź Studies in Language series. Deadline for the submission
of papers is 1 July 2009.

COST
The cost of conference registration is 200 euros (170 euros on or before
15 February). This includes a conference pack, coffee breaks and
participation in sessions.

Participants can book subsidised accommodation at the Lodz University
Conference Centre complex, where the conference will be held
(http://www.csk.uni.lodz.pl/).
A conference package is available (including  registration fee,
accommodation [3 nights], full board and conference dinner) at 470 euros.
Please, note that all accommodation bookings at the conference centre are
handled by the organizers and the conference centre will not accept
reservations coming directly from participants.

Alternative accommodation options can be found at http://www.hotel.lodz.pl/

We have got a limited number of bursaries for colleagues from low-GNP
countries (including Poland) and full-time students. Please apply by
emailing us at palc at uni.lodz.pl.

PAYMENT
Payment should be by bank transfer:

BANK: PKO S.A. II O/Lodz
ACCOUNT No:14124030281111001004347782
IBAN: PL14124030281111001004347782
SWFT: PKO PPL PW

Alternatively, cash payment can be made on arrival. This will incur an
additional charge of 25 euros. We regret that neither cheques nor credit
cards can be handled.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts due: 31 December 2008
Notification of acceptance 31 January 2009
Early bird registration ends 15 February, 2009
Submission of conference papers 1 July 2009

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Prof. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Dr Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski
Dr Przemysław Krakowian
Dr Krzysztof Kredens
Dr Jacek Waliński
Mr Łukasz Dróżdż
Ms Anna Kamińska
Mr Piotr Pęzik

Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics
University of Lodz
Email: palc at uni.lodz.pl; roszkowski at uni.lodz.pl
http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl
phone 48 42 6655220
fax    48 42 6655221

-- 
Dr Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Applied Linguistics
University of Lodz
Kosciuszki 65
90-514, Lodz, Poland
tel. 48 42 6655220
fax  48 42 6655221
cell phone 48 603 965 867
http://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/kja/Roszkowski.htm
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stanislawgozdzroszkowski

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