LINGUIST List 21.4499 Tue Nov 09 2010 Calls: Historical Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/UK Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.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.     Richard Whitt , New Methods in Historical Corpora Message 1: New Methods in Historical Corpora Date: 08-Nov-2010 From: Richard Whitt <Richard.Whittmanchester.ac.uk> Subject: New Methods in Historical Corpora E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: New Methods in Historical Corpora Date: 29-Apr-2011 - 30-Apr-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Richard J. Whitt Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/germanc/conference/ Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2010 Meeting Description: The GerManC Project will be hosting a Conference on New Methods in Historical Corpora next April. The GerManC project, which is funded jointly by the UK funding bodies for Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities (ESRC and AHRC), is engaged in compiling a representative historical corpus of German for the early modern period (1650-1800) to complement German corpora from earlier periods and corpora in other languages for the same period (notably the Helsinki and ARCHER corpora for English). The project is scheduled for completion in summer 2011, and this gives an opportune moment to bring specialists together to discuss the construction, annotation and analysis of diachronic corpora. We aim to provide a forum for scholars compiling such corpora (or planning to do so) to exchange their experiences and discuss their results. The conference will take place at the University of Manchester's Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre (http://www.chancellorshotel.co.uk/), which is an ideal environment for formal and informal meetings. There will be no conference fee, and accommodation and meals will be provided at cost. The following colleagues have kindly accepted our invitation to give plenary talks: David Denison (Manchester) 'Grammatical mark-up: Some more demarcation disputes' Anke Lüdeling (Berlin) 'A (very small) diachronic treebank of German? Statistics of overusing and underusing of syntactic categories' Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki) 'English historical corpora in transition. From new tools to legacy data?' Klaus-Peter Wegera (Bochum) 'Corpus based data acquisition. On the design and exploitation of linguistic corpora' Organisational Committee: Martin Durrell Paul Bennett Silke Scheible Richard J. Whitt 2nd Call for Papers We cordially invite abstracts for papers (20 minutes duration, with 10 minutes discussion) dealing with any aspects of historical corpora in any language. Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words, and be sent by 1 December 2010 to Richard Jason Whitt (richard.whittmanchester.ac.uk). They will be reviewed by a committee consisting of David Denison, Núria Yáñez-Bouza and the conference organisers, and notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 December. Depending on the number of abstracts received, some submissions may be accepted for presentation as posters. All accepted papers will be published online, and we are applying for a selection of papers to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. The language of the conference is English. The GerManC team: Paul Bennett Martin Durrell Silke Scheible Richard Jason Whitt GerManC project: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/germanc/ Conference web-site: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/germanc/conference/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Nov-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.