Call for Papers -- Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2009
Although the main focus of attention will be on modern lexicography, linguists working in all areas are invited to take part in the conference.
The preliminary list of topics includes:
-Theoretical and practical lexicography
-Creation of contemporary dictionaries of all types (active dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms, dictionaries of function words, bilingual dictionaries etc), computerized lexicographic resources
-Lexical semantics, syntactic semantics, pragmatics
-Constructions of operational models of language
-Lexical functions and their applications
-Corpus linguistics
-Linguistic typology
-Machine translation and other NLP systems
The organizing committee asked several leading Russian and foreign scholars to give invited talks and is now awaiting their answer. We expect that Professor Juri Apresjan will give a talk, too. The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English. Papers may be submitted in either of these two languages.
Paper submission and reviewing will be organized using a web interface, to be accessed from the webpage of ''The Word and the Language'' conference: http://aprconf.iitp.ru. Submissions (in pdf or Word format, up to 10 pages) can be made from August 1 to November 1, 2009. The results of peer reviewing will be made available on November 20, 2009. There will be no registration fee for the presenters of papers or attendees. Sessions may be attended by all comers. We are not planning to publish the proceedings of the conference in book form; however, the Program Committee will recommend the best papers for publications in leading Russian linguistic journals, Russkij jazyk vnaucnom osvescenii i Voprosy jazykoznanija. The texts of accepted papers will be published on the website prior to the conference should the presenters wish this.
Organization and Program Committee of the Conference ''The Word and the Language'':
Alexander P. Kuleshov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, director of the Kharkevich Institute for Information
Transmission Problems - Co-Chairman of Organization Committee
Alexander М. Moldovan, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, director of the Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language
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Co-Chairman of Organization Committee
Igor M. Boguslavsky (Kharkevich Institute / Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid) - Chairman of Program Committee
Leonid L. Iomdin (Kharkevich Institute)
Leonid P. Krysin (Vinogradov Institute)
Igor A. Mel'cuk (University of Montreal)
Lidia N. Iordanskaja (University of Montreal)
Olga Ju. Shemanaeva (Kharkevich Institute)
Andrey V. Sannikov (Vinogradov Institute)
Boris L. Iomdin (Vinogradov Institute)
Irina E. Lazurskaja (Kharkevich Institute) - secretary of Organization
and Program Committee
If you have any questions, please write to the Organizing Committee at
aprconf2010@ cl.iitp.ru
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
