Call for Papers
The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference
The 11th IVACS Conference will take place in Cambridge, U.K., on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th July 2024.
We are particularly interested in papers in but not limited to the following areas:
Strand 1 – Corpus Methods and Innovations: Innovations in Corpus Design, Analysis and Annotation Tools; Critical Reflections on Corpus Methods; Advances in Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Analysing Corpora; Innovations in Statistics for CL.
Strand 2 – Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse: Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis; Corpus Pragmatics; CL and Real-World Contexts (e.g. Media Discourse, Classroom Discourse; Workplace Discourse).
Strand 3 – Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics: Learner Corpus Research; CL and Second Language Acquisition; Data-Driven Learning; CL for Materials Development; CL and Teacher Education; CL and Lexicography.
Strand 4 – Corpus Linguistics, Literature, Texts and Register: CL and Register Studies; Corpus Stylistics; CL and Literary Linguistics; CL and Translation Studies; Forensic Linguistics.
Strand 5 – Corpus Linguistics and Speech: CL Speech Technology; CL and Multimodality; Spoken Corpora; Corpus Phonology.
Strand 6 – Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: CL and Language Change; Language Varieties and Variation; CL and Minority Language Studies.
Strand 7 – Computational Linguistics and Corpora: The use of Corpora for Computational Linguistics research; Exploration and analyses of Corpora using Computational Linguistic methods; Data collection and annotation for Computational Linguistics.
Abstract Submission and Timeline
Full papers will involve a 15-minute presentation, plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion.
Posters can present work in progress or summaries of completed studies, research projects or other innovations. Posters should be printed in portrait A0 size.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including reference list, if any).
Note that the deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). So e.g. in the UK and Ireland (UTC-0) the deadline is 11.59am the morning after the stated date.
| Abstract deadline | |
| Extended deadline | 5th January, 2024 |
| Notification | 31st January, 2024 |
| Revised abstracts | 28th March, 2024 |
| Conference | 16th-17th July, 2024 |
Submission of abstracts: OpenReview
Seeking Reviewers
Would you have time to help us review the abstracts in January? Maximum 5 per person. Please sign up here