[Corpora-List] Conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora

[Paul Bennett]

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

Call for Papers

The GerManC Project is hosting a Conference on New Methods in  
Historical Corpora. Funded jointly by the ESRC and the AHRC, GerManC  
is engaged in compiling a representative historical corpus of German  
for the early modern period (1650-1800). 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 in all languages. This conference will  
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 agreed to give plenary talks:
David Denison (Manchester)
Anke Lüdeling (Berlin)
Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki)
Klaus-Peter Wegera (Bochum)

In addition, abstracts for papers (20 minutes duration, with 10  
minutes discussion) dealing with any aspects of historical corpora in  
any language are now invited. 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 
). Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee consisting of David  
Denison, Núria Yáñez-Bouza and the conference organisers. 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. It is intended that accepted papers will be published in  
some form.

The language of the conference is English.

Paul Bennett
Martin Durrell
Silke Scheible
Richard Jason Whitt

GerManC project: http://tinyurl.com/GerManC/


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