We are pleased to announce that the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) will host an International Symposium, “Exploiting Parsed Corpora: Applications in Research, Pedagogy, and Processing” Dec 9-10, 2017 in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Topics to be covered include the development and enrichment of parsed corpora, linguistic research using parsed corpora, and the application of parsed corpora to language pedagogy. Invited speakers are leaders in the field, including Susan Pintzuk, Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini, Sean Wallis, Nianwen Xue, and Liesbeth Augustinus.
A poster session is also planned. Those interested in presenting a poster, please send a one-page abstract to corpora_applications@ninjal.ac.jp by 1 October 2017. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 31 October 2017. Please be aware travel costs or other expenditures cannot be subsidized by NINJAL.
This symposium is organized under the project “Development of and Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese” in the Theory and Typology Division of NINJAL.