KEY THEMES (ABSTRACT CLOSED)

The conference topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

1. Corpus Methodology and Analysis
   - Exploiting large-scale language data to uncover linguistic patterns
   - Methods for building and managing linguistic corpora
   - Leveraging technology for efficient corpus analysis

2. Sociolinguistics and Language Variation
   - Investigating language variation and change across social groups
   - Exploring dialectal and regional differences in language usage
   - Analysing language attitudes and sociocultural influences on linguistic behaviour

3. Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
   - Extracting discourse features from large corpora for pragmatic analysis
   - Identifying discourse markers and speech acts in different contexts
   - Studying the role of context in meaning construction and interpretation

4. Language Pedagogy and Assessment
   - Enhancing language teaching methodologies using corpus-based approaches
   - Developing learner corpora for assessing language proficiency and performance
   - Exploring the potential of using corpora for testing and assessment

5. Translation and Interpreting
   - Developing corpus-based study of translation features, norms and practices
   - Exploring corpus-based study of translator’s style
   - Building parallel and comparable corpora for translation studies and education

6. Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
   - Harnessing computational tools and algorithms for language analysis
   - Automated approaches for syntactic and semantic parsing
   - Machine learning techniques for language modelling and text classification