[Corpora-List] 2nd Call for Papers: New Methods in Historical Corpora

[Paul Bennett]

Conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora
University of Manchester
29-30 April 2011

Second Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

As notified earlier, the GerManC Project will be hosting a Conference  
on New Methods in Historical Corpora next April.

The GerManC project, which is funded jointly by the UK funding bodies  
for Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities (ESRC and AHRC), is engaged  
in compiling a representative historical corpus of German for the  
early modern period (1650-1800) to complement German corpora from  
earlier periods and corpora in other languages for the same period  
(notably the Helsinki and ARCHER corpora for English).

The project is scheduled for completion in summer 2011, and this gives  
an opportune moment to bring specialists together to discuss the  
construction, annotation and analysis of diachronic corpora. We aim to  
provide a forum for scholars compiling such corpora (or planning to do  
so) to exchange their experiences and discuss their results.

The conference will take place at the University of Manchester's  
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre (http://www.chancellorshotel.co.uk/ 
), which is an ideal environment for formal and informal meetings.  
There will be no conference fee, and accommodation and meals will be  
provided at cost.

The following colleagues have kindly accepted our invitation to give  
plenary talks:
David Denison (Manchester) "Grammatical mark-up: Some more demarcation  
disputes"
Anke Lüdeling (Berlin) "A (very small) diachronic treebank of German?  
Statistics of overusing and underusing of syntactic categories"
Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki) "English historical corpora in  
transition. From new tools to legacy data?"
Klaus-Peter Wegera (Bochum) "Corpus based data acquisition. On the  
design and exploitation of linguistic corpora"

We cordially invite abstracts for papers (20 minutes duration, with 10  
minutes discussion) dealing with any aspects of historical corpora in  
any language. Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words, and be sent  
by 1 December 2010 to Richard Jason Whitt (richard.whitt at manchester.ac.uk 
). They will be reviewed by a committee consisting of David Denison,  
Núria Yáñez-Bouza and the conference organisers, and notification of  
acceptance will be sent by 15 December. Depending on the number of  
abstracts received, some submissions may be accepted for presentation  
as posters.

All accepted papers will be published online, and we are applying for  
a selection of papers to be published in a special issue of the  
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.

The language of the conference is English.

The GerManC team:
Paul Bennett
Martin Durrell
Silke Scheible
Richard Jason Whitt

GerManC project: http://tinyurl.com/GerManC/
Conference web-site: http://tinyurl.com/GerManC/conference



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