LINGUIST List 21.3854 Sat Oct 02 2010 Calls: Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Poland Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Lukasz Drozdz, Practical Applications in Language and Computers Message 1: Practical Applications in Language and Computers Date: 30-Sep-2010 From: Lukasz Drozdz <palcuni.lodz.pl> Subject: Practical Applications in Language and Computers E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Practical Applications in Language and Computers Short Title: PALC Date: 13-Apr-2011 - 15-Apr-2011 Location: ?ód?, Poland Contact Person: Piotr Pezik Meeting Email: palcuni.lodz.pl Web Site: http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: The Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at ?ód? University is proud to announce that the 8th international conference on Practical Applications in Language and Computers (PALC 2011) will be held over 3 days, 13 to 15 April 2011 (arrival day 12 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. Call For Papers Abstracts of papers should be up to 500 words long and forwarded (by e- mail) to the organisers (see below). Presentations should last 30 minutes including demonstrations, questions and discussion. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 January 2011. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: - Corpus and Computational Linguistics - 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 - Machine Translation, Machine-aided Translation, Translation and Corpora - E-books and Corpora and Literature - Corpus-based Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Tools A selection of conference papers will be published with the Peter Lang as part of the ?ód? Studies in Language series. Deadline for the submission of papers is 1 July 2011. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.