The 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME 23) will take place at Arken Conference Centre, near Göteborg, 22-26 May, 2002. The conference will start with registration on Wednesday afternoon and end after lunch on Sunday.
The theme for this year's conference is the theory and use of English language corpora. We especially encourage papers on the development and use of multilingual corpora and learner corpora. Such corpora are now used not only for lexicographic and grammatical studies, but for research in new areas such as pragmatics and discourse. We also want to draw attention to the potentialities provided by corpora of spoken language and to stimulate thoughts and ideas in the area of corpus-based studies of spoken language and of dialogue analysis.
The programme consists of plenary lectures, papers, work-in-progress presentations and software demonstrations. The following keynote speakers will give papers:
- John Du Bois: What is (Natural) Discourse? Implications for Spoken
Corpus Research
- Helge Dyvik: Translations as semantic mirrors: From parallel corpus
to Wordnet
- Michael Halliday: The spoken language corpus at the foundations of
grammatics
- Michael Hoey: The use of corpora for text-linguistic studies
- Geoffrey Leech: Linking the theoretical and descriptive/observational
levels of corpus linguistics
- John Sinclair: Lexicogrammar and corpora