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[SEAS Sheffield]

*Workshop title*: Exploring New Horizons in East Asian Literary and
Linguistic Studies

*Main Conference: *Joint East Asian Studies Conference, hosted by the
British Associations of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Studies **

*Location: *Sheffield, United Kingdom

*Contact:* newhorizonsworkshop at gmail.com

*Deadline for abstract submission: *15th May, 2009

*Notification of acceptance: *1st July, 2009

*Deadline for full paper submission*: 1st September, 2009

*Workshop date*: 10th September, 2009



The workshop will be held in conjunction with Joint East Asian Studies
Conference, hosted by the British Associations of Chinese, Japanese and
Korean Studies. It calls for papers representing original and up-to-date
research pursued in the fields of Asian linguistics and literary studies
which exemplify the use of modern language corpora and related computational
technology. Papers focusing on the importance of corpus material and
methodology in empirical literary and linguistic studies in East Asian
languages, i.e. Chinese, Japanese and Korean, will be particularly welcome. The
rapid and conspicuous progress made by natural language engineering in
generating and processing quantitative linguistic data has provided us with
a solid and promising technical platform for modern humanistic research.
However, it would seem that when compared with contemporary linguistics in
major western languages, the great potential brought about language
technology has not been fully explored in modern literary and linguistic
research in Asian languages. Therefore, the main purpose of the workshop is
to explore the various possibilities of using corpora and computer-aided
tools in studying literary/non-literary/translated texts, e.g. the
construction and annotation of purpose-specific language corpora; the
extraction of meaningful units from corpus texts; the use of quantitative
methods in the detection and analysis of stylistic variations in literary
texts, etc. Authors of accepted abstracts will be encouraged to submit a
full version of their papers for possible publication with an established
academic publisher.
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