Corpus Linguistics 2013: 
Call for Papers 

The seventh international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2013) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 23rd July 2013 to Friday 26th July 2013. The main conference will be preceded by a workshop day on Monday 22nd July. 

The goals of the conference are as follows.

•	To gather together current and developing research in the study and application of corpus linguistics;
•	To push the field forwards by promoting dialogue among the many different users of corpora across interconnected sub-disciplines of linguistics – be they descriptive, theoretical, applied or computational;
•	To explore new challenges both within corpus linguistics, and in the extension of corpus approaches to new fields of study.

With these goals in mind, we invite contributions on as broad and inclusive a basis as possible. The areas in which we particularly welcome submissions include but are not limited to:

•	Critical explorations of existing measures and methods in corpus linguistics;
•	New methods and techniques in corpus development, annotation and analysis;
•	Corpus approaches to the study of new media;
•	New tools and techniques developed in corpus-based computational linguistics;
•	The application of corpus approaches in the social sciences and humanities;
•	The extension of corpus linguistics to an ever-wider range of (non-English) languages;
•	The interface between corpus and theory;
•	The use of corpora in discourse analysis;
•	The use of corpora in second language acquisition studies and language pedagogy.

The following speakers have accepted our invitation to give plenary lectures at CL2013:

•	Karin Aijmer
•	Guy Cook
•	Michael Hoey
•	Ute Römer

With this announcement, we issue our main Call for Papers, and provide notice of workshops being held on Monday 22nd July.

Call for abstracts for papers, posters and panels

We invite submission of abstracts for papers, posters and panels on any topic relevant to the conference themes.

For this conference, we are requesting extended abstracts (750-1500 words), as we do not plan to produce a volume of conference proceedings. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee.

Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please note: paper 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 be submitted as a poster abstract – see below.

Submissions for panel discussions should take the form of a single 1500 word abstract on behalf of all speakers to be on the panel. The abstract should include a note to specify whether the panel is intended to be 1 hour or 1.5 hours in length. 

Submissions for poster presentations should be shorter (400-750 words). We especially welcome poster abstracts that (a) report on innovative research that is in its very earliest phases (b) report on new software or corpus data resources.

We especially encourage abstract submissions from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

All abstracts must be submitted via the conference website; the submission system will be live from 18th November 2012. A template file, containing instructions for laying out abstracts, is available for download from the submission page.

Key dates

•	18th November 2012 – abstract submission opens via conference website
•	8th January 2013 – deadline for abstract submission
•	15th February 2013 – notification of the outcome of peer review; early bird registration opens.
•	1st April 2013 – early bird registration closes
•	30th June 2013 – final deadline for registration
•	22nd / 23rd July 2013 – workshop day / main conference begins.

Pre-conference workshops

On Monday 22nd July, the following pre-conference workshops will be offered:

•	Evaluative Language and Corpus Linguistics
•	Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language
•	Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics
•	Web as Corpus Workshop
•	Corpus Analysis with Noise in the Signal
•	Annotating Correspondence Corpora 
•	Compiling and analysing a spoken academic corpus 
•	A Fully-annotated Pragmatic Corpus – the SPICE-Ireland Corpus

More information – including detailed workshop descriptions and a provisional schedule – will be published as it becomes available on the CL2013 workshop webpage (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php).

General information

The conference will be held on the Lancaster University campus; see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/contact-and-getting-here/maps-and-travel/ for information.

For all further information, see the conference website: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013

The conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk), which brings together the Department of Linguistics and English Language (http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/) with the School of Computing and Communications (http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/).

The local organising committee of CL2013 is made up of: Amanda Potts, Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery, and Paul Rayson. 

The following scholars have agreed to participate as members of the programme committee:

•	Bas Aarts (University College London)
•	Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham)
•	Karin Aijmer (Göteborg University)
•	Marc Alexander (University of Glasgow)
•	Gisle Andersen (Norwegian School of Economics)
•	Wendy Anderson (University of Glasgow)
•	Laurence Anthony (Waseda University)
•	Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire)
•	Eric Atwell (University of Leeds)
•	Paul Baker (Lancaster University)
•	Michael Barlow (University of Auckland)
•	Alistair Baron (Lancaster University)
•	Joan Beal (University of Sheffield)
•	Doug Biber (Northern Arizona University)
•	Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
•	Beatrix Busse (Universität Heidelberg)
•	František Čermák (Charles University in Prague)
•	Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University)
•	Mark Davies (Brigham Young University)
•	Alice Deignan (University of Leeds)
•	Dagmar Divjak (University of Sheffield)
•	Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo)
•	Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
•	Fiona Farr (University of Limerick)
•	Zhiwei Feng (Peking University)
•	John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong)
•	Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University)
•	Sheena Gardner (University of Birmingham)
•	Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven)
•	Gaetanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain)
•	Sylviane Granger (Université catholique de Louvain)
•	Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara)
•	Nicholas Groom (University of Birmingham)
•	Yueguo Gu (The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
•	Eva Hajičová (Charles University in Prague)
•	Pat Hall (Open University)
•	Patrick Hanks (University of the West of England)
•	Claire Hardaker (University of Central Lancashire)
•	Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, Chair)
•	Sebastian Hoffmann (Universität Trier)
•	Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich)
•	Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd)
•	John Kirk (Queen's University Belfast)
•	Dawn Knight (Newcastle University)
•	Merja Kytö (Uppsala University)
•	Geoff Leech (Lancaster University)
•	Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Lodz)
•	Wenzhong Li (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
•	Jeanette Littlemore (University of Birmingham)
•	Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
•	Dan MacIntyre (University of Huddersfield)
•	Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham)
•	Christian Mair (University of Freiburg)
•	Oliver Mason (University of Birmingham)
•	Anna Mauranen (Helsinki University)
•	Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
•	Neil Millar (University of Birmingham)
•	Ghada Mohamed (University of Bahrain)
•	Hermann Moisl (Newcastle University)
•	Rosamund Moon (University of Birmingham)
•	Bróna Murphy (University of Edinburgh)
•	Hilary Nesi (Coventry University)
•	Kieran O'Halloran (King's College London)
•	Vincent Ooi (National University of Singapore)
•	Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain)
•	Gill Philip (University of Macerata)
•	Scott Piao (Lancaster University)
•	Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)
•	Ute Römer (University of Michigan)
•	Gabriela Saldanha (University of Birmingham)
•	Geoffrey Sampson (University of South Africa)
•	Mike Scott (Aston University)
•	Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds)
•	Nick Smith (University of Salford)
•	Anna-Brita Stenström (University of Bergen)
•	Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki)
•	Jyotiprakash Tamuli (Gauhati University)
•	Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham)
•	Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham)
•	Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
•	Michael Toolan (University of Birmingham)
•	Geoffrey Williams (Université de Bretagne Sud)
•	Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University)
•	Martin Wynne (Oxford University Computing Services)
•	Richard Xiao (Lancaster University)
•	Yogendra Yadava (Tribhuvan University)
•	Nagwa Younis (Ain Shams University)
•	Zhang Jidong (Donghua University)