Call for Papers Submission Deadline : January 8th, 2023 QUALICO 2023 Lausanne, Switzerland, June 28-30, 2023 https://www.unil.ch/qualico2023/

The 12th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 28-30, 2023. QUALICO 2023 is organized by the International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA) and the Department of Language and Information Sciences (SLI) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL).

Topics

All contributions relating to quantitative linguistics and text analysis are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions on: Descriptions of all aspects of language and text phenomena, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics, language typology, language acquisition, language evolution, usage-based approaches, information science, etc., insofar as they use quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic processes, differential and difference equations, multidimensional analysis, fuzzy logics and set theory, function theory, etc.). Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative linguistics to problems of natural language processing, text classification, stylistics, authorship attribution, language teaching, scientometrics, bibliometrics, text mining, language complexity and complex network analysis. Methods of linguistic measurement, model construction, sampling and test theory. Epistemological issues relevant to quantitative linguistics such as explanation of language and text phenomena, contributions to theory construction, systems theory, philosophy of science.

Oral and Poster Sessions Presentations should be in English. Each paper will be allotted 30 minutes (20 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of discussion). There will also be a poster session. Multiple Works by the Same Author The maximum number of submissions by the same author or co-author is two papers. Submissions exceeding this threshold will be automatically deleted without notification.

Submission of Abstracts The submission of an abstract will be via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qualico2023 Abstracts must be in English and should include keywords, authors affiliations and references. They should not exceed 500 words (excluding keywords, authors affiliations and references) and 2 pages all included. The requested format for submission is PDF.

The deadline for submission is January 8th 2023, 11:59:59 pm (GMT).

Notification of Acceptance Notification of acceptance will be sent to the contact author by February 28th 2023.

Conference Volume We will invite authors of accepted abstracts to submit full papers for publication in the conference volume, which will be proposed for publication with a leading publisher.

Participation Fees Participation fees must be paid before April 30th, 2023. The fees are: Regular: 250€ IQLA Member: 150€

Participation fees include: An abstract book for the conference. Conference volume of full papers. One lunch break meal voucher and 2 coffee break vouchers for every day.

For participants interested in the special social event, an extra fee will be added (still to be determined).

Conference Venue

Anthropole, UNIL-Chamberonne. 1015 Chavannes-près-Renens, SWITZERLAND https://goo.gl/maps/d6QtQM2SCzRTutAG9

The conference will take place on-site unless the sanitary situation in June 2023 requires switching to a remote, online modality.

Contact qualico2023@unil.ch

For further details, visit the conference webpage: https://www.unil.ch/qualico2023/

Scientific Committee

François Bavaud, University of Lausanne Radek Cech, University of Ostrava Xinying Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong University Sheila Embleton, York University Guillaume Guex, University of Lausanne Emmerich Kelih, University of Vienna Ján Mačutek, Slovak Academy of Sciences & Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Coline Métrailler, University of Lausanne George Mikros, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Hermann Moisl, University of Newcastle Adam Pawłowski, University of Wrocław Haruko Sanada, Rissho University Benjamin Storme, University of Lausanne Arjuna Tuzzi, University of Padua Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne

Organizing Committee François Bavaud, Guillaume Guex, Coline Métrailler, Stéphanie Pichot, Benjamin Storme, and Aris Xanthos.

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