asialex 2009 call for papers

[kvjirapa at KMITL.AC.TH]

ASIALEX 2009
Bangkok, Thailand
August 20–22, 2009
“DICTIONARIES IN EDUCATION”

CALL FOR PAPERS

ASIALEX 2009, the 6th biennial conference of the Asian Association for
Lexicography, will take place in Bangkok from 20th to 22nd August, 2009,
organized by the Department of Languages and Social Sciences, King
Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL). The conference
theme, Dictionaries in Education, aims to open up a forum for
lexicographers, researchers in language education, linguistics and related
fields.

Organizing committee: Jirapa Vitayapirak (ASIALEX President 2008-2009), Z.
Iqbal, A. Chi, Y. Tono, V. Jayadevan, S. Yamada and G-M de Schryver.

Dictionaries in Education

Abstracts, of up to 250 words, are invited for presentations at this
conference in any of the following areas:

- pedagogical lexicography: the history of pedagogical lexicography,
theoretical issues in pedagogical lexicography, etc.
-teaching dictionary use
- dictionaries in any language(s): general, special purpose, monolingual,
bilingual, bilingualized, etc.
- the practice of dictionary making
- research on dictionary use and users
- corpus lexicography
- terminology and terminography
- dictionary writing systems and other dictionary compilation software tools
- computational lexicography and dictionaries for natural language processing

Presentations may take the form of papers or posters. The time allotted
for each paper presentation will be 30 minutes (i.e. 20 minutes for
presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). A dedicated slot for poster
presentations will be reserved in the programme. Details such as the size
and format of poster stands will be announced later. The official language
of the conference will be English, which will be used in all presentations
and printed materials.

Important Dates:
Presentation Application Form & Abstract submission: March 31, 2009
Notification of Presentation Acceptance:  April 30, 2009
Full papers due: May 31, 2009
General Pre-Conference Registration due: June 30, 2009

Paper submission
All paper submissions will be handled electronically following
instructions and sent electronically to asialex at kmitl.ac.th. All papers
will be reviewed by the program committee members. Accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings.
Contact Us
Department of Languages and Social Sciences
Faculty of Industrial Education
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Bangkok 10520, THAIALND
Telephone/Fax: 662-3264321
Email: asialex at kmitl.ac.th or kvjirapa at kmitl.ac.th

Venue
We have arranged a special accommodation rate with The Imperial Queen’s
Park Hotel Bangkok downtown on Sukhumvit 22 Road, for conference
participants.

More information: http://www.kmitl.ac.th/asialex/


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