3rd CALL FOR PAPERS 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CORPUS LINGUISTICS: Corpus Resources for Descriptive and Applied studies: Current Challenges and Future Directions (CILC2013) 14-16 March 2013 http://web.ua.es/cilc2013 University Institute of Modern Applied Languages UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE SPAIN 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 telectronic 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. - The creation of corpus and its exploitation in descriptive and applied research - The 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 Dr. Hilary Nesi, Coventry University Dr. Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena Dr. Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing, Ltd. *Proposals submission* Proposals can be submitted till 14 February 2013, in English or Spanish, with no more than 550 words (excluding bibliography) to the panel you wish your paper be reviewed. Please clic on the following link to upload your submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2013 Abstracts can be submitted until 14-Jan-2013. Paper and poster proposals must be abstracts written in English or Spanish, and should contain between 500 and 550 words (excluding references). Abstracts must be submitted through an EasyChair link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cilc2013 When filling out the abstract submission form in EasyChair, please choose only ONE TOPIC and only ONE TYPE of contribution (paper or poster). *PANELS* 1. Corpus design, compilation and types. 2. Discourse, literary analysis and corpora. 3. Corpus-based grammatical studies. 4. Corpus-based lexicology and lexicography. 5. Corpora, contrastive studies and translation. 6. Corpus and linguistic variation. 7. Corpus-based computational linguistics. 8. Corpora, language acquisition and teaching. 9. Special uses of corpus linguistics. We look forward to your contributions and to meeting you in Alicante next year! Kind regards, Alicante, 1st October 2012. THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE