Special Issue

Call for Papers

International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing

Special Issue on Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Annotations

For this special issue, we invite original research that utilizes corpus for annotations of discourse. Discourse here is defined as running texts (not a collection of concordance lines). Hence, analyses of running passages are strongly preferred. Materials based on English and Chinese discourse are preferred although their comparisons with other languages are also plausible for this special issue. It is hoped that the annotations used in the papers of this special issue could be shared (or partially shared) as open source information with other scholars. By doing so, stronger connections could be built between linguistic annotations and computational linguistics research.

We welcome submissions addressing the following issues.

Speech Act or Dialogue Analysis: This includes actions intended to be performed by speakers/writers in any texts, such as social media texts or real conversational dialogues.

Discourse Structure Analysis: This includes analyses of moves, structures, flows of information in discourse.

Critical Discourse Analysis: This includes the study of discourse to achieve certain social purposes.

As a sub-type of critical discourse analysis, the analysis of discourse strategies for propaganda purposes is also included.

Discourse Strategies in Debates: This refers to annotations of debaters’ discourse strategies and speech acts.

Other research results related to corpus linguistics and discourse analysis.

Submission deadline: September 1, 2021 (Extended to September 15, 2021)

Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2021

Final manuscript due: March 1, 2022

Tentative publication date: June, 2022 Vol. 27, No. 1

Instructions for Authors

All manuscripts are subject to anonymous peer review. The template file for manuscripts is available at the homepage of the International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing

(http://www.aclclp.org.tw/journal/index.php).

Authors should submit their papers in PDF format via the editorial system: https://ijclclp.aclclp.org.tw/servlet/SignInHandler