[Corpora-List] PALC 2011: Second call for papers

[Lukasz Drozdz]

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PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS
13-15 April 2011, Łódź, Poland
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The Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Łódź University 
is proud to announce that the 8th international conference on PRACTICAL 
APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS (PALC 2011) will be held over 3 days, 
13 to 15 April 2011 (arrival day 12 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. 

All information concerning the academic programme and social activities will 
be publicised as it becomes available. At the same time, we encourage and 
welcome proposals for special sessions, roundtable discussions and workshops.

TOPICS

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
* LSP corpora
* Traditional and New Media Corpora
* Historical 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
* Computational approaches to metaphors and figurative language

PLENARY SPEAKERS

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

* Bas Aarts, University College London, United Kingdom
* Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
* Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen, Germany

SPECIAL SESSIONS

We're planning to hold special sessions on:

* corpora in historical linguistics
* corpora in LSP studies
* corpora in translation studies

ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of papers should be up to 500 words long and forwarded (by e-mail or 
the online registration form ) to the organisers (see below). Presentations 
should last 30 minutes including demonstrations, questions and discussion. 

The deadline for abstract submission is 05 January 2011.

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 2011.

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.: 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767 
IBAN: PL 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767 
SWIFT: 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: 05 January 2011
* Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2011
* Early bird registration ends: 22 February, 2011
* Submission of conference papers: 1 July 2011

PALC 2011 ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Prof dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 
Dr Piotr Pęzik (Scientific Secretary) 
Dr Anna Cichosz 
Dr Stanisław Góźdź-Roszkowski 
Mr Mikołaj Deckert 
Mr Łukasz Dróżdż

CONTACT DETAILS

e-mail: palc at uni.lodz.pl

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