[Corpora-List] 1st. cfp for SlaviCorp

[Kristina Vuckovic]

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1st Call for papers: SlaviCorp: Corpora of Slavic Languages

Dubrovnik, Croatia 12-14 September 2011

web: http://hnk.ffzg.hr/slavicorp2011/home.html

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   The Croatian Language Technologies Society and Faculty of Humanities and
Social Sciences, University of Zagreb are pleased to announce the second
conference "SlaviCorp: Corpora of Slavic Languages". The conference is the
second meeting of the Corpus Linguistics Committee of the International
Committee of Slavists. The conference will be held at the Centre for
Advanced Academic Studies in Dubrovnik, Croatia on September the 12th-14th
2011.

 

   On 27 August 2009 in Stara Lesna, the International Committee of Slavists
established the Corpus Linguistics Committee, following a motion tabled by
representatives of a number of Slavic national corpora. The proponents of
the motion included members of major corpus linguistics teams from Bulgaria,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

 

   The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to the
following:

 

   * recent developments in national Slavic corpora;

   * new Slavic corpus projects;

   * parallel Slavic corpora;

   * Slavic corpora and corpus based lexica;

   * diachronic Slavic corpora and digital text collections;

   * annnotation in Slavic corpora;

   * applications of Slavic corpora: research, teaching, LT, M(A)T etc.

 

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Special sessions

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   * a special session will be devoted to the project CESAR and presentation
of its goals and results covering several Slavic languages and respective
corpora being developed;

   * an exhibition and demonstration of national and international projects
with Slavic corpora covered will be organised;

 

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Requirements

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   Papers should describe original work and should indicate clearly the
state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete
evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to
the conference, and interest to the attendees.

 

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Important dates

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                Submission of proposals for oral papers:     1 May 2011

                Notification of acceptance of oral papers:     20 May 2011

 

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Reviewing

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   The reviewing of the papers will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by
an international Program Committee. Final decisions on the technical program
will be made by the Program Committee.

 

 

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Submission

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The extended abstract should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the
paper presentation is estimated at 20-25 minutes.

As reviewing will be blind, the abstract should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, should be avoided. Extended abstracts that do not conform
to these requirements will be rejected without review.

 

Submissions should be sent to zzl at ffzg.hr

 

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Program committee

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Božo Bekavac (University of Zagreb)

Damir Ćavar (University of Zadar)

František Čermák (Charles University, Prague)

Tomaž Erjavec (Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)

Radovan Garabík(Institute L'udevit Štúr, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Svetla Koeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Simon Krek (Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)

Marek Łaziński (University of Łodż)

Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of sciences)

Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Brno)

Vladimir Plungjan (Moscow State University)

Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of sciences)

Pavel Rychlý (Masaryk University, Brno)

Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb / Croatian Language Technologies Society)

Duško Vitas (University of Belgrade)

 

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Local Organizing Committee

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Željko Agić (University of Zagreb)

Božo Bekavac (University of Zagreb)

Nikola Ljubešić (University of Zagreb)

Ida Raffaelli (University of Zagreb)

Krešimir Šojat (University of Zagreb)

Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb / Croatian Language Technologies Society)

Kristina Vučković (University of Zagreb)

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