The 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference - Call for papers, posters and panels

The 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference will take place in the week of 24 - 28 July 2017 at the University of Birmingham.

Corpus Linguistics is a biennial conference which has been running since 2001 and has been hosted by Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Birmingham.

• Submission information (deadline 10 January 2017)

At CL2017 we are proud to have the following plenary speakers:

• Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham

• Susan Conrad (Portland State University, US)
• Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK)
• Christian Mair (University of Freiburg, Germany)
• Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield, UK)
• Mike Scott (Aston University, UK)

There will a pre-conference workshop day on Monday 24 July. The conference will feature four thematic streams and a general programme, and will run for the four days of 25-28 July 2017. The four thematic streams are:

• Critical explorations of existing measures and methods in corpus linguistics
• New methods and techniques in corpus development, annotation and analysis
• New tools and techniques developed in corpus-based computational linguistics
• Advances in quantitative techniques

• Literary linguistics
• Lexicography
• Translation studies
• Forensic linguistics
• Uses of corpus methodologies in real-world contexts

• The uses of corpora in discourse analysis
• Corpus approaches to the study of new media
• The uses of corpus approaches in historical linguistics
• Uses of corpus approaches in social research

• Learner corpus research
• Corpus-based work in language teaching, including LSP and LAP
• Corpora in second language acquisition studies
• Direct uses of corpus resources or techniques in language learning contexts
• Development of learning and teaching materials

For the general programme, we invite contributions on a broad and inclusive basis.

There are 3 categories of proposals. All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee. In addition to the full proposal, a short summary abstract (up to 100 words) is required for each submission.

Consisting of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Submissions should present either complete research, or research in progress where at least some substantial results have been achieved. Work in progress which has yet to produce results can instead be submitted as a poster abstract. We are requesting extended abstracts (750-1500 words, excluding the word count for references), as we do not plan to produce a volume of conference proceedings. The extended abstracts will be published electronically shortly in advance of the conference.

Posters can present either results of completed research or work in progress. Abstracts should be 250-500 words, excluding the word count for references. We especially welcome poster abstracts that (a) report on innovative research that is in its earliest phases, or (b) report on new software or corpus data resources.

Panels during the main conferences offer an opportunity to group related papers together to allow extended discussions. Abstracts of 1500 words (excluding the word count for references) are to be submitted on behalf of all speakers, with an introduction specifying the relationship between the topics before details on individual presentations (including names and affiliations of all speakers) are given. Abstracts are to be submitted by the panel convenor(s). Panels will be allocated 1 hour 40 minutes.

We particularly encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

For the pre-conference workshop day you can propose either a half-day or a full-day event. Proposals should be 1500 words for a half-day or 3000 words for a full-day, excluding word count for references. They should also provide details on whether the workshop will need a computer lab or any other technical requirements. Pre-conference proposals should be sent directly to Dr Nicholas Groom via the conference email account: cl2017@contacts.bham.ac.uk, with a subject line that begins: [cl2017-pcw].