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13th Teaching and Learning Corpora Conference

#CFP 14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL)

14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference – September 20-22, 2018 in Atlanta, GA

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

The Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL (http://alsl.gsu.edu/) at Georgia State University (GSU) is excited to host the 14th Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), 20-22 September 2018 on the GSU main campus in downtown Atlanta, GA. Please mark your calendars!

Previous conferences of the American Association for (Applied) Corpus Linguistics have been held at different universities in North America starting in 1999: Northern Arizona University (2014, 2006, 2000), Iowa State University (2016), San Diego State University (2013), Georgia State University (2011), University of Alberta, Canada (2009), Brigham Young University (2008), University of Michigan (1999, 2005), Montclair State University (2004), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (2002), and University of Massachusetts-Boston (2001).

We are proud to have the following keynote speakers at AACL 2018:
· Tony Berber Sardinha, Catholic University of São Paulo
· Bethany Gray, Iowa State University
· Stefan Gries, University of California at Santa Barbara

The conference will feature pre-conference workshops, plenary talks, and paper and poster presentation sessions.

IMPORTANT DATES
November 2017: First call for proposals
15 February 2018: Deadline for submission of abstracts
31 March 2018: Notification of decisions on abstracts
20 September 2018: Registration and pre-conference workshops
21-22 September 2018: Conference

Feel free to email the conference co-chairs at aacl2018@gmail.com if you have any questions. We hope you will consider joining us for AACL 2018 in Atlanta!

Viviana Cortes, Eric Friginal, Ute Römer (AACL 2018 co-chairs)

#CFP Language Technology for Digital Humanities: Language Resources and Evaluation Journal

From the Corpora List

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CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite submissions of papers to a special issue of the journal ”Language Resources and Evaluation”. The special issue will focus on the use of language technology for digital humanities and will have the title: Language Technology for Digital Humanities.

MOTIVATION:

The use of digital resources and tools across humanities disciplines has steadily increased, giving rise to new research paradigms and associated methods that are commonly subsumed under the term ”digital humanities”. Digital humanities does not constitute a new discipline in itself, but rather a new approach to humanities research that cuts across different existing humanities disciplines. While digital humanities extends well beyond language-based research, textual resources and spoken language materials play a central role in most humanities disciplines. Applying LT tools and data for digital humanities research implies new perspectives on these resources regarding domain adaptation, interoperability, technical requirements, documentation, and usability of user interfaces.

TOPICS:

We invite original contributions on completed work, not published before and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

* Case studies of using language technology and/or language resources with the goal of finding new answers to existing research questions in a particular humanities discipline or addressing entirely new research questions

* Case studies of expanding the functionality of existing language processing tools in order to be able to address research questions in digital humanities

* The design of new language processing tools as well as annotation tools for spoken and written language, showcasing their use in digital humanities research

* Domain adaption of rule-based, statistical, or machine-learning models for language processing tools in digital humanities research

* Challenges posed for language processing tools when used on diachronic data, language variation data, or literary texts

* Showcasing the use of language processing tools in humanities disciplines such as anthropology, gender studies, history, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and theology

SUBMISSION:

Accepted papers will have a length of 20-30 pages, excluding references.

Authors are advised to use the online manuscript submission for the journal. Make sure to select the special issue when asked to provide the article type. More information, including formatting instructions for authors can be found on the journal’s webpage at: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10579#

Authors are requested to send a brief email to the guest editors (LTforDH@gmail.com) indicating their intention to participate as soon as possible, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submission. Questions regarding the special issue should be sent to the same address.

IMPORTANT DATES:

* Submission deadline: 31 October 2017

* Author notification of acceptance: 15 January 2018

GUEST EDITORS:

Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen

Marie Hinrichs, University of Tübingen

Sandra Kübler, Indiana University

Thorsten Trippel, University of Tübingen

CONTACT: LTforDH@gmail.com

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