[Corpora-List] Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster: Call for papers

[Hardie, Andrew]

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WORKSHOP ON ARABIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS
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11th and 12th April 2011
Lancaster University, UK

Keynote speakers:
Eric Atwell, University of Leeds 
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University


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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Over the past few years, research into the Arabic language using corpora
and 
corpus methods has moved from a new direction to an active field, with
work 
advancing rapidly on many different fronts of both corpus linguistics
and 
computational linguistics. To create a venue where these different
directions 
on corpus research into Arabic can be brought together to explore
progress in 
the field, the UCREL research centre at Lancaster University will host a

Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics in April 2011.

We are now inviting abstracts for this workshop. Presentations either 
describing finished research or reporting work in progress are welcome.
The 
scope of the workshop encompasses both (a) the design, construction and 
annotation of Arabic corpora, and (b) the use of corpora in research on
the 
Arabic language - in any relevant area, including (but not limited to!)
lexis 
and lexicography, syntax, collocation, NLP systems and analysis tools, 
contrastive and historical studies, stylistics, and discourse analysis.

Presentations are invited on any of these areas, or on any other topic 
related to the study of Arabic-language corpora. Submissions from
postgraduate
students are especially welcome.

Abstracts should be 400 words or less; presentations will be in the
usual 
format (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions).
Please 
submit abstracts by email to Andrew Hardie (a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk). 
Acceptable formats are PDF, Microsoft Word .doc(x), plain text, RTF,
HTML, or 
OpenDocument text (.odt). Please use Unicode characters for any Arabic
text 
examples. All abstracts should be in English rather than Arabic; English
will 
be the language of the workshop. 

Dates:
* Closing date for abstracts: Monday December 6th 2010.
* Responses to abstract submission: before Monday December 13th 2010.
* Registration open from: Monday December 13th 2010.
* Event: Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th April 2011.

On the web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/event/3406/ 

Please feel free to circulate this CfP further.
We apologise for any cross-posting.

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