[Corpora-List] ConCorT 2013: First Call for Papers, Nizhny Novgorod Russia October 18-19, 2013

[Ольга Ляшевская]

Corpus Technologies: Digital Humanities and Contemporary Knowledge

The first ConCorT conference will be held in the Higher School of
Economics – Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 18-19 October 2013.

Aims of the conference

* to contribute to the expansion of corpus technologies in humanities
and to digitalization and computerization of the humanities knowledge
* to present the results of employment of the corpus technologies in
linguistic research
* to integrate the humanities expert community and to introduce them
to new methods of corpus analysis
* to draw young researchers to the above mentioned fields

Problems to be discussed are:

1. Trends in humanities research in the age of digital technologies
2. Electronic language resources: corpora and collections of texts,
electronic dictionaries and thesauruses
3. Corpus technologies in academic research and humanities education
4. Digital humanities and comparative studies.
5. Corpus-based linguodidactics

Working languages: Russian, English, German

Venue: HSE-Nizhny Novgorod, ul. B.Pecherskaya 25/12, Nizhny Novgorod

Proceedings of the ConCorT 2013 will be published on the web after the
conference. Papers can be submitted either as full papers (ca. 20 000
– 30 000 characters) or as short papers (ca. 8 000 – 10 000
characters). Terms of publishing, as well as details on accommodation
for participants will be specified in the 2nd Call for Papers.
Conference fee (to be paid on site) is 500 roubles (ca. 12 EUR).

For those who wish to stay an extra day in Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday,
20 October 2013 we offer an excursion to Gorodets that is one of the
oldest and most beautiful towns of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Please
notice that the travel expenses are paid by the participants of the
conference.

Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/concort2013/

Please send your application form and a short summary (see below) to
the e-mail address of the Organizing Committee digitalnn2013 at gmail.com
by 15 April 2013. Full and short paper submission due: 1 July 2013.
The authors will be notified of acceptance by 1 August 2013.

Organizers
Faculty of Humanities, Higher School of Economics – Nizhny Novgorod and
Faculty of Philology, Higher School of Economics – Moscow

Contact
E-mail: digitalnn2013 at gmail.com
Conference coordinator:
Dr. Vera Sibirtseva
Associate Professor
National Research University Higher School of Economics,
Department of Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication.

Conference chairs:
Prof. Ekaterina Rakhilina, HSE Moscow
Prof. Natalia Gronskaya, HSE Nizhny Novgorod

APPLICATION FORM

Name
E-mail
Job title and position
Academic degree
Address
Phone (office)
Phone (mobile)
Type of accommodation, if needed
Title (in English)
Title (in the language of the paper, if different from English)
Co-authors
Short summary (up to 600 characters)
Summary in English (if the language of the paper is different from
English, up to 300 characters)

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Olga Lyashevskaya
Professor
Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Russia
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