2016 2nd International Conference on Literature and Linguistics (ICOLL 2016)

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education

• Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education

• Collaborations in Language Teacher Education

• Practices of Language Teacher Education

• The transformative nature of the role of language and communication in human cognition

• The analysis of language and language use as providing a window into non-linguistic cognitive 

• processes and structures

• The relationship between linguistic structure and cognitive processes

• Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages

• Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages

• Asian character encoding and compression

• Multimodal representations and processing

• Voice input and output

• Phonology and morphology

• Lexical semantics and word sense

• Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse

• Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing

• Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing

• Discourse analysis

• Language, linguistic and speech resource development

• Evaluation methods and user studies

• Machine learning for natural language

• Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation

• Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval

• Text entailment and paraphrasing

• Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering

• HMachine translation and multilingual processing

• Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language, computational psycholinguistics

• computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics

• Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and speech processing

• Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation

• Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval

• Speech recognition and synthesis

• Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation

• Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning

• NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text

• NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS

• Language Change and Variation

• Role of English and Asian languages in globalised contexts 

• New Varieties of English

• English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

• Language, Identity and Culture

• Language and Literature

• Language and Popular Culture

• Literature and Film

• Language and Power

• Language and Gender

• Language and the New Media

• Language, Culture and Translation

• New Writings in English

• Women's Writings

• Teaching of Language and Literature

• Teaching and Learning of English as a Foreign/ Second Language

• Effective Teaching Methodologies in Language and Literature Classrooms

• Interdisciplinarity in Language Teaching and Learning

• Assessment Practices to Language and Literature Teaching

• Teaching Translation

• Language and ICT

• Theoretical research on forensic linguistics

• Legal discourse analysis

• Legal translation and courtroom interpreting

• The application of forensic linguistics

• Research on legal language teaching

• Construction of corpus for forensic purposes

• Special hardware and software for Asian language computing