American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) 2020
September 18 & 19 with workshops on September 17
Call for Papers
The 15th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL2020) will take place September 18-19 2020 at Northern Arizona University. Previous AACL conferences have been held at the University of Michigan (1999, 2005), Northern Arizona University (2000, 2006, 2014), University Massachusetts-Boston (2001), IUPUI (2002), Montclair State University (2004), Brigham Young University (2008), University of Alberta (2009), Georgia State University (2011, 2018), San Diego State University (2013), and Iowa State University (2016). There will also be a pre-conference workshop day on September 17.
Check out the conference website: sites.google.com/view/aacl2020/
Plenaries:
Laurence Anthony, Waseda University
Shelley Staples, University of Arizona
Stefanie Wulff, University of Florida
Main conference general program
Call for papers
We invite contributions relating to all aspects of corpus linguistic research, application, or methods. There are four categories of proposals (full papers, posters, panels, and pre-conference workshops). All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the conference program committee. We ask that presenters submit only two proposals as first author. The conference will feature three thematic streams in the general program. The thematic streams are as follows:
- Linguistic analyses of corpora as they relate to language use (e.g., register/genre variation, lexical and grammatical variation, language varieties, historical change, lexicography)
- Application (the use of corpora in language teaching and learning, as well as other applied fields such as testing and legal research)
- 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 200 words (maximum), excluding the word count for references.
Panels
Panels during the main conference offer an opportunity to group related papers together to allow for extended discussions. Proposals for panels should include the abstracts for the individual presentations (300 words max), together with an introductory abstract (200 words max) introducing the overall goals of the panel. Panels will be allocated time slots up to a maximum of 2 hours. Please specify the desired length of time for the panel.
Pre-conference Workshops
Half-day pre-conference workshops will take place on Thursday Sept 17. Abstracts for submission (max. 300 words) should include a complete description of the half-day workshop (max time 3 hours).
Submission guidelines:
Submit abstracts to aacl@nau.edu by January 30, 2020.
Cover page: Author(s) name(s); Affiliation; Contact information; Title; Submission Category and thematic stream
Abstract page: Submission category; Title; Abstract
Format: MS Word or PDF (the latter is necessary if the abstract contains specialized font)