Corpora: PALC '99: Call for Papers

mwynne@krysia.uni.lodz.pl
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:08:19 MET

PALC'99 (PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE CORPORA)
(Lodz University with The British Council)
e-mail: corpora@krysia.uni.lodz.pl

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof. dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
James Melia M.A., Dipl. TEFL, B.Ed.
Dept of English Language
Al. Kosciuszki 65
90-514 Lodz, Poland
tel/fax: (#48) 42 636 63 37
(#48) 42 636 68 72
e-mail: blt@krysia.uni.lodz.pl
pjmelia@krysia.uni.lodz.pl

SECRETARIES:
Raf Uzar
Chris Kredens
Staczek Roszkowski
Jacek Walinski
Martin Wynne

e-mail: corpora@krysia.uni.lodz.pl
www: http://filolog.krysia.uni.lodz.pl/palc

AIMS
The Department of English Language at Lodz University plans to hold the 2nd
international conference devoted to PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE
CORPORA. The general topic of the conference is the relationship between
language corpora and their uses in a range of language and linguistic
fields. Our aim is to provide a forum for practical exemplifications of
language corpora (written and spoken) in action and a forum for fruitful
interaction between scholars. Hopefully, such a conference will act as a
stimulus to teaching, and to scholarly and critical research.

DATES
The conference will be held over 4 days, 15 to 18 April 1999 (arrival 14
April) at the Lodz University Conference Centre. We expect approximately
120 participants from Poland and Central Europe, Western Europe and other
parts of the world.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Yorick Wilks Sheffield University
Mike Scott Liverpool University
Tony McEnery Lancaster University
Additional plenary speakers will be announced later

TOPICS (All papers must be corpus-based.)
We invite papers on such topics as:
Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
Discourse and Language Corpora
ESP and Language Corpora
Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems in Corpora
FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
Language Teaching Materials and Language Corpora
Language Teaching and Learner Corpora
Lexicography and Language Corpora
Lexicology and Language Corpora,
Literature and Language Corpora
Phonetics/Phonology and Language Corpora
Translation and Language Corpora,
Other Corpus-related Topics

ABSTRACTS
Abstracts of papers should be 750 words long and forwarded (by e-mail, fax
or mail) to the organisers,
Professor dr hab. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & James Melia.
Deadline for abstracts is 31 January 1999.
Presentations should last 45 minutes including demonstrations, questions
and discussion.

PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Selected papers from the conference will be published by an international
publisher.

COSTS
The cost of conference registration, accommodation and fullboard at the
conference centre is:

Participants from Central and Eastern Europe:
(fee/200 PLN + accommodation/fullboard/500PLN) 700 PLN
N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by 31 Jan. 1999 is 600 PLN

Participants from Western Europe, the Americas, Far East, Others
(fee $150 + accommodation/fullboard/$250) $400
N.B. Reduced rate for early registration by 31 January 1999 is $350

PAYMENT
Payment in advance should be by cheque (in US dollars or equivalent in
other currencies), made out to:
Lodz University (PALC99) Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
and forwarded to
Department of English Language, Al. Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, Poland.

Payment can be made on day of registration (14 April) in US dollars or
equivalen currencies

FURTHER INFORMATION
Further details about the conference will be publicised in regular
circulars to participants and academic institutions.

**Official language of the PALC'99 Conference will be English**

BOOK
Palc'97: Practical Applications In Language Corpora

Editors
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Patrick James Melia

Publishers
Lodz University 1997, Lodz/Poland
ISBN 83-7171-096-8

The PALC'97 Proceedings (39 articles of 578 pages), was published on 25
November 1997. It is now on sale and costs US$30 + US$5 postage (or
equivalent in other European currencies).

Academic institutions and other interested parties wishing to purchase the
volume should make payment by cheque to
Professor Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk PALC'97.

And forward it to Department of English Language, Al. Kosciuszki 65, 90-514
Lodz/Poland.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1: NEW PERSPECTIVES
>From concordance to text structure: new uses for computer corpora
Michael Hoey
Multimedia corpora - the road ahead
Tony McEnery & Andrew Wilson
A new perspective for learner language corpora
Rafal Uzar
SECTION 2: LANGUAGE LEARNING
Small and large corpora in language learning
Guy Aston
Concordancing as input enhancement in EFL
Bernhard Kettemann
Corpora as a resource for non-native teachers of writing
Agnieszka Lenko-Szymanska
Understatement and indirectness in English: from corpus evidence to
classroom practice
Michael Rundell
The possible application of a spoken corpus of Polish inter-Englishto
teaching English pronunciation
Sylwia Scheuer
Improvising corpora for ELT: quick and dirty ways of developing corpora for
language teaching
Chris Tribble
SECTION 3: LEARNER LANGUAGE
Exploiting the Swedish component of the International Corpus of Learner
English (ICLE)
Bengt Altenberg
Polish student writers - Can corpora help them?
Przemyslaw Kaszubski
SECTION 4: LANGUAGE FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
The design, compilation and practical applications of a genre-based corpus
of spoken discourses for EAP use
Martha Jones
Where is the writer in a frequency list? Using a corpus of medical research
articles in teaching
Georgette Jabbour
SECTION 5: LEXICOLOGY & LEXICOGRAPHY
Lexicography and language corpora: will corpora analysis solve all the
problems?
Igor Burkhanov
Norms and exploitations in linguistic behaviour
Patrick Hanks
Lexical meanings in language corpora
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
The making of the Polish-English dictionary of slang & colloquialism
Maciej Widawski
SECTION 6: DICTIONARIES
English words in use: compiling a dictionary of collocation
Ann Lawson
The relevance of syntagmatic information in a bilingual, specialised
(legal) production dictionary: How can a good database help?
Barbara Majer-Giernat
The use of language corpora in the compilation of the Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English (3rd Edition)
Sylvia Shaw
SECTION 7: CONTRASTIVE STUDIES
Using the English-Norwegian parallel corpus - a corpus forcontrastive
analysis and translation studies
Stig Johansson
Naturalness and contrastive linguistics
Raphael Salkie
The text of the bible as a corpus for comparative analyses
Tamas Vrauko
SECTION 8: CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Corpus analysis of lexically cohesive text segments
Tony Berber Sardinha
Corpus-based testing of cognitive theories of discourse anaphora
Simon Botley
Science or philosophy? Progress report on a lexical analysis of corpora
from two journals in linguistics
Douglas Coleman
The weight of words: an investigation of lexical gravity
Oliver Mason
Polysemic and homonymic description in dictionary entries
Francine Melka
SECTION 9: TRANSLATION
(Ab)normal translations: a German-English parallel corpus for investigating
normalisation in translation
Dorothy Kenny
Parallel corpora for translator training
Philip King
Do-it-yourself corpora.......with a little bit of help from your friends!
Belinda Maia
Criteria for selecting parallel texts in teaching a translation course
Maria Piotrowska
The impact of multilingual parallel concordancing on translation
Margherita Ulrych
SECTION 10: LITERATURE
"If I can do it, you can do it: reading oral text between the words"
Akua Duku Anokye
Throw away your evidence or just sieve it well? The corpus in the quest for
the elusive meaning
Michal Pawica
SECTION 11: EXPERT SYSTEMS
Terminological vocabularies as lexical corpora in generating of information
retrieval languages
Wieslaw Babik
Searching the BNC using SARA
Lou Burnard
The structuring of language data for marking, describing and analysing
language corpora
Maciej Lison
Morphological tagging of texts using the lemmatizer of the 'POLEX'
electronic dictionary
Zygmunt Vetulani, & Tomasz Obrebski