[Corpora-List] Corpus Linguistics 2003 call for participation

From: Rayson, Paul (rayson@exchange.lancs.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 18:39:59 MET

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    CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2003

    Lancaster University (UK), 28 - 31 March 2003

    CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

    Corpus Linguistics 2003 will be a forum for all concerned with the
    computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our definition of
    'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on substantial
    literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as more 'traditional'
    corpus linguists.
    Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work
    occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction, parsing) and
    linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware of the latest
    developments in language processing. We also believe that language engineers
    should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus linguists.

    The conference will include invited talks from:
    Nicoletta Calzolari - Corpora and the lexicon
    Michael Hoey - topic TBA
    Susan Hunston - Frame, phrase, or function: a comparison between frame
    semantics and local grammars
    Nancy Ide - Everything you wanted to know about the American National Corpus
    ... but were afraid to ask

    There will be four pre-conference workshops:

    Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language
    Learner Corpora: Design, Development and Applications
    Multilingual Corpora: Linguistic Requirements and Technical Perspectives
    Shallow Processing of Large Corpora (SProLaC 2003)

    Details of the workshops, and the more than 130 accepted papers and posters are
    available on the conference website:

    http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/

    The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2003 are:

    1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in different
    languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet untapped) potential to
    interact.

    2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics and
    those using corpora in language engineering.

    DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION February 13th 2003

    Registration site: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/register.html

    CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

    Local committee

    Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
    Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University)
    Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)
    Paul Baker (Lancaster University)

    General committee

    Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK
    Michael Barlow, Rice University, USA
    Mark Davies, Illinois State University, USA
    Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK
    Randall Jones, Brigham Young University, USA
    Charles Meyer, University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA
    Tamás Váradi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
    Anne Wichmann, University of Central Lancashire, UK
    Shunji Yamazaki, Daito Bunka University, Japan

    ADDRESS

    Organising Committee
    Corpus Linguistics 2003
    Department of Linguistics and MEL
    Lancaster University
    Lancaster LA1 4YT
    UK

    Tel: +44 1524 593024
    Fax: +44 1524 593608
    E-mail: cl2003@comp.lancs.ac.uk or paul at comp.lancs.ac.uk
    Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/cl2003/



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