[Corpora-List] CFP: ICAME-30 - 27-31 May 2009, Lancaster, UK

[Sebastian Hoffmann]

The Universities of Lancaster and Central 
Lancashire have the honour of jointly-organizing 
the

30th Annual Conference of the
International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English.

The 30th ICAME conference will be held in Lancaster, UK
- one of the founding institutions of ICAME -
from 27-31 May 2009.

The focus of the conference in our special 
anniversary year will be the achievements of the 
corpus linguistics community to date, and the 
challenges that the ICAME community believe have 
yet to be faced.

The conference will thus be entitled: Looking back - moving forward.


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Conference Venue
The conference will be held at Lancaster House 
Hotel, a 4-star hotel located adjacent to 
Lancaster University campus. We have also booked 
a limited number of ensuite rooms in nearby 
student accommodation. Registration and 
information on conference costs will appear in a 
second circular and on our website towards the 
end of 2008: http://www.icame30.info/

Academic Programme
The program will consist of full papers, 
work-in-progress reports, a poster session, 
software demonstrations and a discussion panel, 
as well as invited plenary talks. The following 
speakers have already agreed to give plenaries at 
the conference:

- Nick Ellis (University of Michigan)
- Yueguo Gu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
- Geoffrey Pullum (University of Edinburgh)

In addition, there will be a plenary event by 
Stig Johansson and Geoffrey Leech, commemorating 
the history of ICAME on the occasion of its 30th 
meeting.
A discussion panel on "Issues in Historical 
Corpus Linguistics" will be chaired by Christian 
Mair. There will also be pre-conference workshops 
on "Errors and disfluencies in spoken corpora" 
(Convenors: Sylvie de Cock and Gaëtanelle 
Gilquin) and "Corpora and SLA" (Convenors: Ute 
Römer, Nick Ellis and Fanny Meunier).

Social Programme
There will be an excursion to the Lake District 
on Friday afternoon, followed by a dinner on Lake 
Windermere. There will be an opportunity to 
indulge in fell-walking and to visit famous 
literary sites. A post-conference excursion to 
the remarkable eighth-century Ruthwell Cross 
(with its runic inscription dating from the 
earliest Old English) will be organised by 
Geoffrey Leech. In addition, there will also be 
an opportunity for some attendees of the 
conference to visit the Hesketh Collection held 
in the rare book archive of Lancaster University 
Library.

Call for abstracts
Individual papers will be allowed 30 minutes, 
including 10 minutes for discussion; 
work-in-progress reports will be 15 minutes long, 
including 5 minutes for discussion. The deadline 
for abstract submission is 15th December 2008. 
Abstracts of 400-600 words in length should be 
submitted online at 
http://www.icame30.info/abstracts.html. On the 
form, please indicate whether your contribution 
is a paper, a work-in-progress report, a poster 
or a software demonstration. All abstracts will 
be blind reviewed; notifications of acceptance 
will be sent out by 15th January 2009. Deadline 
for registration is 1st March 2009.

The local organising committee consists of:
Dawn Archer
Andrew Hardie
Sebastian Hoffmann (chair)
Geoffrey Leech
Paul Rayson
Anne Wichmann
e-mail: contact at icame30.info

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Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
U.K.
phone: +44 (0)1524 592254
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