Organized by: University Institute of Modern Applied Languages (IULMA), University of Alicante

The Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO) and the local Organizing Committee are pleased to announce that the 5th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2013) will be hosted by the University Institute of Modern Applied Languages at the University of Alicante on 14 to 16 March 2013.

Since corpus work has taken on a more relevant role in descriptive and applied studies on the various facets of language, availability and variety of electronic corpus and tools for their exploitation and analysis have proliferated and many more are on the horizon. The availabity of such diverse resources offers many opportunities for researchers, language professionals, and language services providers. However, learning to use and apply these resources still poses serious challenges. The theme for this conference edition is 'Corpus Resources for Descriptive and Applied Studies: Current Challenges and Future Directions.' and its aim is to promote the submission of proposals for oral presentations and posters on issues related to:
New theoretical issues arising from the work with corpus in the current scenario
Applications of corpora for terminology, translation, lexicography, teaching and language acquisition, etc.
Creation of corpus and its exploitation in descriptive and applied research
Use of technologies for the analysis of texts for different purposes
Advances in computer technology for the compilation, use and analysis of corpus.
Corpus and ICT


CILC2013 is pleased to welcome the following plenary speakers who have already confirmed their participation:
Dr. Nuria Bel, IULA, Barcelona
Dr. Federico Zanettin, University of Perugia, Italy
Dr. Hilary Nesi, Coventry University, UK
Dr. Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena, Italy
Dr. Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing, Ltd., UK

As in previous editions, two pre-conference workshops will be held on Wednesday 13 March 2013. The first one will deal with ‘Tools and techniques for using multilingual corpora in translation’, and the second one with ‘Corpus-based language learning/teaching’. More detailed information will be provided in the second call.

The Organizing Committee of CILC2013 invites scholars and researchers to submit paper and poster proposals (abstracts) related to the theme of this edition, within any one of the following nine thematic panels established by AELINCO:
1.Corpus design, compilation and types, chaired by Dr. Francisco Alonso Almeida, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
2.Discourse, literary analysis and corpora, chaired by Dr. José Luis Oncins, Universidad de Extremadura.
3.Corpus-based grammatical studies, chaired by Dr. Isabel Moskowich Universidade da Coruña.
4.Corpus-based lexicology and lexicography, chaired by Dr. Pedro Fuertes Olivera, Universidad de Valladolid.
5.Corpora, contrastive studies and translation, chaired by Dr. María de los Ángeles Gómez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
6.Corpora and linguistic variation, chaired by Dr. María José López Couso, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
7.Corpus-based computational linguistics, chaired by Dr. Antonio Moreno Sandoval, Departamento de Lingüística, Lenguas Modernas, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
8.Corpora, language acquisition and teaching, chaired by Dr. Raquel Criado Sánchez, Universidad de Murcia.
9.Special uses of corpus linguistics, chaired by Dr. Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.