Call For Papers

Main conference general program

We invite contributions relating to all aspects of corpus linguistic research, application, or methods.  There are three categories of proposals (full papers, posters, and pre-conference workshops). All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the conference program committee. We ask that presenters submit no more than two proposals as first author.

Thematic Streams

The conference will feature three thematic streams in the general program. The thematic streams are as follows:

1. Linguistic analyses of corpora as they relate to language use (e.g., register/genre variation, lexical and grammatical variation, language varieties, historical change, lexicography)

2. Application (the use of corpora in language teaching and learning, as well as other applied fields such as testing and legal research)

3. Tools and methods (corpus creation, corpus annotation, tagging and parsing, corpus analysis software)

Submission Categories

Full Papers

Consisting of a 20-minute talk followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Submissions should present completed research where substantial results have been achieved. (Work in progress should be submitted as a poster abstract.)  Abstracts should be 300 words (maximum), excluding the word count for references. 

Posters

Posters can present either results of completed research or work in progress. We especially welcome poster abstracts that (a) report on innovative research that is in its early phases, or (b) report on new software or corpus data resources.  Abstracts should be 300 words (maximum), excluding the word count for references. 

Pre-Conference Workshops

Half-day pre-conference workshops will take place the Thursday before the main conference (which starts on Friday).  Abstracts for submission (max. 300 words) should include a complete description of the half-day workshop (max time 3 hours). 

(Note that you will be prompted to create an account in the Oxford Abstracts system prior to submitting an abstract)