[Corpora-List] Second/final call for papers: Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster

[Hardie, Andrew]

Second (and final) call for papers...

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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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