LINGUIST List 22.4526 Sat Nov 12 2011 Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Applied Ling/China Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Bin Zou , Corpus Technologies and Applied Linguistics Message 1: Corpus Technologies and Applied Linguistics Date: 12-Nov-2011 From: Bin Zou <bin.zouxjtlu.edu.cn> Subject: Corpus Technologies and Applied Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Corpus Technologies and Applied Linguistics Short Title: CTAL 2012 Date: 28-Jun-2012 - 30-Jun-2012 Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China Contact Person: Bin Zou Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/corpus/ Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2012 Meeting Description: Corpus Technologies and Applied Linguistics: An International Conference Hosted by XJTLU, China and the University of Liverpool, UK Venue: Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, China Conference Website: http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/corpus/ Conference Theme: Corpus Linguistics: Technologies for Language Research, Teaching and Learning Plenary Speakers: Professor Michael Hoey, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Liverpool, UK; Director, Liverpool Confucius Institute; author of Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language (2005); chief advisor of Macmillan English Dictionary Professor Mike Scott, Reader in Corpus Linguistics, Aston University, UK; author of Wordsmith Tools Dr Adam Kilgariff, Director, Lexical Computing Ltd; designer of Sketch Engine; advisor of Macmillan English Dictionary Professor Naixing Wei, Beihang University, President of the Corpus Linguistics Society of China Professor Maocheng Liang, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Vice president of the Corpus Linguistics Society of China Contact: Conference Secretary: Jinying Ma English Language Centre, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 111 Ren'ai Rd, Dushu Lake Higher Education Town, Suzhou SIP, China 215123 Email: corpus2012xjtlu.edu.cn Call for Papers: Important Dates: Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2012 Conference dates: 28-30 June 2012 Topics include, but are not confined to: Corpora and CALL Corpus construction and new technology Corpora in language teaching and learning Access to online corpora Software development for corpus linguistics Learner corpora Multimedia corpora Bilingual corpora Corpora in translation studies Corpora for grammar, vocabulary, and language skills Contributions in the form of paper presentations are invited. Workshop proposals from teaching practitioners who use corpora are also welcome. The topic of a paper may be a corpus of English, Chinese, or any other language. Abstracts to be submitted by 1 March 2012 by online upload to Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctal2012 If you do not have an Easychair account, you will need to create one on the Easychair website before you can upload. Abstracts should be of 250-500 words, and include details of research methods and brief results (which may be preliminary). Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed. After the conference, presenters will be invited to submit a full paper to a blind peer review panel, to be considered for inclusion in a published volume. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Nov-2011       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.