Supplement to ICAME Constitution:
Information on specific dates and post-holders
Last updated: 12 May 2012
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2b
ICAME currently makes the English text
corpora and associated tools available to researchers and institutions on the 2nd
ICAME CD-ROM (1999) by means of a service provided by Knut Hofland at Uni Computing of Uni Research in
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2d
ICAME
provides a forum for research and discussion on English corpus linguistics, by
· sponsoring an annual conference, through the
offices of the ICAME member who serves as host. As of 2008, conferences have
taken place in Ascona,
· maintaining a journal currently named the ICAME
Journal. The current editors are Merja Kytö and
Anna-Brita Strenström, the review editor is Ilka Mindt, the production of camera-ready copy is carried out by
Anne Lindebjerg (
· maintaining an ICAME website, which task has
been carried out by Knut Hofland. Plans to link the
website with the CLARIN projects in
· maintaining the ICAME
bibliography, which task was originally carried out by Bengt
Altenberg, formerly of
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The ICAME journal is an excellent
publication, which needs a level of guaranteed readership in order to budget
for production costs. The ICAME association does not have a subscription fee,
but from May
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3.4
Honorary
life membership of ICAME
Honorary life membership shall be awarded on grounds of outstanding service to the field, outstanding scholarship and/or dedication to the creation of corpus material. Candidates have already retired or are close to their retirement. The following individuals or associations have been awarded life membership: Stig Johansson, Henry Kučera, Geoffrey Leech, Matti Rissanen, Jan Svartvik, Jan Aarts, Anna-Brita Stenström, and the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS).
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Board
members
Board members shall represent a range of regions, specialisations and areas of expertise. After two consecutive terms of office, former Board members can be proposed for re-election after a lapse of four years.
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Election of chairperson and secretary
The next date for election of ICAME Chairman is May 2014. The current Chair is eligible for re-election once. The current Secretary shall continue as Acting Secretary until a new Secretary has been elected according to the regulations of the Constitution.
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Officers undertaking specific tasks and responsibilities
Current officers
undertaking specific tasks and responsibilities on behalf of ICAME are as in
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ICAME conferences: Guidelines
There
should be no more than three parallel sessions at an ICAME conference. Enough
time should be reserved for the poster session. The lecture rooms should be big
enough and there should be enough hotel rooms to accommodate conference
participants. Expenses should be kept down. The conference should fit the
description of the original conference application presented to the ICAME Board.
All abstracts should be peer-reviewed.
An addition to the ICAME Constitution:
ICAME Board bursaries
To honour the scholarly achievement of John Sinclair, it was agreed that a bursary will be awarded to an early career ICAMEr who delivers the best paper at each forthcoming conference (excluding workshop papers). Candidates must make clear to the Chair and Secretary that they wish to be considered, and the Board will undertake to have the paper audited appropriately. For the bursary, £2 will be collected from each ICAME conference participant as part of the conference fee.
To honour the outstanding contribution to the field of corpus linguistics of Stig Johansson, it was agreed that a bursary will be awarded to the author(s) of the best poster presentation at each forthcoming conference. The sum of €150 will be collected from the conference fees.
The bursaries shall be announced by the conference organisers.