Registration is now open for the seventh international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2013), which 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.

We are pleased to issue our first official call for participation, which includes details on registering for the workshop day and the main conference, discounted on-campus accommodation, and the first announcement of bursaries available to postgraduate students attending CL2013.

WORKSHOP DAY
We invite registration for the pre-conference workshop day. You can register for this day either in addition to or separately from the main conference. Participants have the choice of the following CL2013 workshops:

* Full day: Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language
* Full day: Workshop on Arabic Corpus LInguistics
* Full day: Web as Corpus Workshop
* Full day: A Fully-annotated Pragmatic Corpus – the SPICE-Ireland Corpus
* Full day: Annotating Correspondence Corpora
* Two half-day sessions:
  * Compiling and Analysing a Spoken Academic Corpus (mornining) and/or
  * Corpus Analysis with Noise in the Signal (afternoon)

A reduced registration fee for postgraduate students is available. Please visit http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php for more details.

MAIN CONFERENCE
The main conference will run over four days, and will include plenary lectures from Karin Aijmer, Guy Cook, Michael Hoey, and Ute Römer.

Participants are invited to register for the full conference. It is also possible to register for a single day (or days) of the conference. Reduced postgraduate rates are available, and early bird rates are in effect until 15th April 2013. Please see our website for full details.

POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES
We are pleased to announce that we are able to offer a limited number of bursaries to postgraduate students attending the conference. Bursaries will cover the cost of registration to the workshop day; the full main conference; and up to five nights' on-campus accommodation. Holders of bursaries must, however, cover all their own travel costs. To qualify, you must be a current full-time research student at any university worldwide.

Applications will be considered complete if two email messages have been received at cl2013@lancaster.ac.uk, before 15th April 2013:

1) One message from the applicant stating name, department, university, degree, and field of research. In this email, please be sure to include proof of your student status (e.g. a letter from your department, or a scan of your student identification card or document);

2) A letter of support from your academic supervisor, stating how they believe you would benefit from winning a bursary and attending the conference. 

All postgraduates attending the conference are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to applicants presenting papers or posters at the main conference.

CL2013 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Please visit http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php to register for CL2013.

All registration fees include daily lunch and dinner, and participants attending the full conference will receive a complimentary subscription to Corpora journal.

Reduced-rate on-campus bed and breakfast accommodation can also be booked using this service.

Early bird rates are available until 15th April 2013.

We look forward to welcoming you to Lancaster.

Amanda Potts, Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery, and Paul Rayson
The CL2013 Organising Committee

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013
cl2013@lancaster.ac.uk