PALC 2011 - 8th international conference on PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS (PALC 2011)

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS

13-15 April 2011, Łódź, Poland

The Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Łódź 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.



TOPICS



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



PLENARY SPEAKERS



The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the conference as plenary speakers:



* Bas Aarts, University College London, United Kingdom
* Raymond Hickey, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
* Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen, Germany



ABSTRACTS



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.



PROCEEDINGS



A selection of conference papers will be published with the Peter Lang as part of the Łódź Studies in Language series. Deadline for the submission of papers is 1 July 2011.



COST



The cost of conference registration is 200 euros (170 euros on or before 15 February). This includes a conference pack, coffee breaks and participation in sessions. Participants can book subsidised accommodation at the Lodz
University Conference Centre complex, where the conference will be held (http://www.csk.uni.lodz.pl/).



A comprehensive conference package is available (including registration fee, accommodation [3 nights], full board and conference dinner) at 470 euros.
Please, note that all accommodation bookings at the conference centre are handled by the organizers and the conference centre does not normally accept reservations coming directly from participants.



Alternative accommodation options can be found at http://www.hotel.lodz.pl/



We have got a limited number of bursaries for colleagues from low-GNP
countries (including Poland) and full-time students. Please apply by emailing us at palc-AT-uni.lodz.pl.



PAYMENT



Payment should be by bank transfer:



BANK: PKO S.A II O/Lodz
ACCOUNT No.: 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767
IBAN: PL 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767
SWIFT: PKO PPL PW



Alternatively, cash payments can be made on arrival. This will incur an additional charge of 25 Euros. We regret that neither cheques nor credit cards can be handled.



IMPORTANT DATES



* Abstracts due: 5 January 2011
* Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2011
* Early bird registration ends: 15 February, 2011
* Submission of conference papers: 1 July 2011



PALC 2011 ORGANISING COMMITTEE



* Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
* Anna Cichosz
* Stanisław Góźdź-Roszkowski
* Piotr Pęzik
* Mikołaj Deckert
* Łukasz Dróżdż



CONTACT DETAILS



e-mail: palc-AT-uni.lodz.pl



FURTHER INFORMATION



Further information will be published regularly on the conference website at:



http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl



Official language of the conference will be English.