26.3884, Calls: English, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Hong Kong

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Subject: 26.3884, Calls: English, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Hong Kong

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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:25:44
From: Gerald Nelson [geraldanelson at gmail.com]
Subject: ICAME 37

Full Title: ICAME 37 

Date: 25-May-2016 - 29-May-2016
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact Person: Gerald Nelson
Meeting Email: geraldanelson at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/web/icame37 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

The 37th annual conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME)

ICAME 37 Conference
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
May 25 - 29, 2016

Plenary Speakers: 

Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University
Ken Hyland, University of Hong Kong
Pam Peters, Macquarie University, Sydney
Josef Schmied, Technische Universität Chemnitz
Edgar Schneider, Universität Regensburg

Conference theme: ‘Corpus Linguistics across Cultures’. 

Call for Papers:

We invite submission of abstracts for full papers, work-in-progress reports, software demonstrations, and posters on any topic related to the conference theme. 

Papers must be relevant to corpus-linguistic description, analysis and methodology. They must focus on the English language (from a diachronic and/or synchronic and/or comparative/contrastive perspective) and should present original concepts, data and/or methods.

Presentation Formats:

Full papers: 30 minutes, including 10 minutes discussion
Work-in-progress reports: 15 minutes, including 5 minutes discussion
Software demos: 30 minutes, including 10 minutes discussion
Posters: Presenters will briefly introduce their posters during a plenary session. Posters must be maximum A0 size (portrait).

Submission of Abstracts:

Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references) and should clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts if at least one paper is co-authored. 

Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyAbs online system  

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 November 2015. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously; notifications of acceptance will be sent out beginning on 15 December 2015. Conference registration will open on 15 January 2016.

Pre-conference workshops will be held on the afternoon of 25 May 2016. If you would like to convene a workshop, send your proposed topic to ICAME37 at cuhk.edu.hk, by 1 October 2015. Workshop topics and speakers must be confirmed by 15 December 2015.

Conference website: http://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/web/icame37 

Gerald Nelson
ICAME37 at cuhk.edu.hk
On behalf of the ICAME 37 Organising Committee

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