American Association for Corpus Linguistics 2009
Short Title: AACL 2009
Date: 08-Oct-2009 - 11-Oct-2009
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Contact: John Newman
Contact Email: john.newman [at] ualberta.ca
Meeting URL: http://www.ualberta.ca/~aacl2009/
Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics
Meeting Description:
AACL covers all aspects of corpus linguistics. The conference continues the
tradition of previous conferences of the American Association for Corpus
Linguistics and the American Association for Applied Corpus Linguistics.
Previous meetings have been held at different universities in the United
States
since 1998, including Northern Arizona University (2006, 2000), the
University
of Michigan (2005, 1999), Montclair State (2004), IUPUI (2002), and Univ.
Massachusetts-Boston (2001).
Sub-fields covered by AACL 2009 include corpus linguistics and endangered
languages, open source corpora (philosophy and practice), corpus creation,
corpus annotation, linguistic analyses of corpora, visualization of large
data
sets, register/genre variation, lexicography, parallel corpora, tagging and
parsing, software development, and the use of corpora in language learning
and
teaching.