Practical Applications in Language and Computers

PALC 2011 CONFERENCE

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:

Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
Discourse and Language Corpora
ESP and Language Corpora
LSP corpora
Traditional and New Media
Historical 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
Computer Translation Tools
Machine Translation, Machine-aided Translation, Translation and Corpora
E-books and Corpora and Literature
Computational approaches to metaphors and figurative language

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
Rafał Molencki, University of Silesia, Poland
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen, Germany

SPECIAL SESSIONS

We're planning to hold special sessions on:

ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of papers should be up to 500 words long and forwarded (by e-mail or the online registration form ) to the organisers (see below). Presentations should last 30 minutes including demonstrations, questions and discussion.

The deadline for abstract submission is 05 February 2011.

REGISTRATION

All participants must register by filling out the REGISTRATION FORM.
After filling out the form a login password is sent to the user over email
Participants can then use their passwords to UPDATE registration details and edit previously submitted abstracts or add new ones.

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 15 August 2011.

Formatted papers should be emailed to palc@uni.lodz.pl.

COST

The cost of conference registration is 200 euros ( 170 euros on or before 22 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 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 will not 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@uni.lodz.pl.

PAYMENT

Payment should be by bank transfer:

PALC 2011
Uniwersytet Lodzki
BANK: PKO S.A II O/Lodz
ul. Piotrkowska 270, 90-361 Lodz
ACCOUNT No.: 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767
IBAN: PL 96 1240 3028 1111 0010 2943 1767
SWIFT: PKO PPL PW

(Please mark PALC 2011 in the first line in your transfer.)

Alternatively, cash payment 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: 05 February 2011
Notification of acceptance 15 February 2011
Early bird registration ends 22 February, 2011
Submission of conference papers 1 July 2011

PALC 2011 ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Prof dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Dr Piotr Pęzik (Scientific Secretary)
Dr Anna Cichosz
Dr Stanisław Góźdź-Roszkowski
Mr Mikołaj Deckert
Mr Łukasz Dróżdż

CONTACT DETAILS

e-mail: palc@uni.lodz.pl

For further contact information CLICK HERE

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information will be published regularly on this site (see news - palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl), as well as in circulars sent to participants and academic institutions.

Official language of the conference will be English.