CFP: 7th Practical Applications in Language and Computers (PALC 2009) Conference

[Francis Hult]

http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl/

 

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS (PALC 2009) CONFERENCE

The Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Lódz University is proud to announce that the 7th international conference on PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS (PALC 2009) will be held over 3 days, 6 to 8 April 2009 (arrival day 5 April) at the Lodz University Conference Centre in Lodz, Poland 

For over a decade, the PALC conferences have served the international community of corpus linguists by providing a useful forum for the exchange of views and ideas on how corpora and computational tools can be effectively employed to explore and advance our understanding of language. 

All information concerning the academic programme and social activities will be publicised as it becomes available. At the same time, we encourage and welcome proposals for special sessions, roundtable discussions and workshops. 

 

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

Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora 

Discourse and Language Corpora 

ESP and Language Corpora 

Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems 

FLA/SLA and Language Corpora 

Language Teaching Materials and Language (Learner) Corpora/ICT 

Virtual Learning Environments 

E-testing 

Large (multilingual/multimodal) Corpora 

Lexicography and Language Corpora 

Cognition, Computers and Language 

Computer Translation Tools 

Machine Translation, Machine-aided Translation, Translation and Corpora 

E-books and Corpora and Literature 

WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Combinatorics (patterning) in specialized discourses (organized by Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski) 

E-learning (organized by Jacek Walinski & Przemek Krakowian) 

Exploring National Corpora (organized by Piotr Pezik and Lukasz Drózdz) 

 

PLENARY SPEAKERS
The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the conference as plenary speakers: 

Mark Davies, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA 

Ken Hyland, University of London, UK 

Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Aston University, Birmingham, UK 

Margaret Rogers, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK 

Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki, Finland 

 

ABSTRACTS
Abstracts of papers should be up to 500 words long and forwarded (by e-mail) to the organisers (see below). Deadline for submission is 31 December 2008. Presentations should last 30 minutes including demonstrations, questions and discussion. 




PROCEEDINGS
A selection of conference papers will be published with the Peter Lang <http://www.peterlang.com/>  as part of the Lódz Studies in Language series. Deadline for the submission of papers is 1 July 2009. 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts due: 31 December 2008 

Notification of acceptance 31 January 2009 

Early bird registration ends 15 February, 2009 

Submission of conference papers 1 July 2009 

 

PALC 2009 ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Prof dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 
Dr Stanislaw Gózdz-Roszkowski 
Dr Krzysztof Kredens 
Dr Jacek Walinski 
Mr Lukasz Drózdz 
Ms Anna Kaminska 
Dr Piotr Pezik 

 

CONTACT DETAILS
e-mail: palc at uni.lodz.pl

 

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