Bergenholtz, Henning (University of Aarhus, Denmark):
A corpus analysis is a superfluous ceremony and a complete waste of your time and the government’s money.
This presentation is an interesting review of attitudes towards corpus-based analyses of language.
TIA 2015: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Terminology and Artificial Intelligence 2015
4 November – 6 November 2015
University of Granada, Spain
http://lexicon.ugr.es/tia2015/Home.html
Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) 2015 will highlight the close connection between multilingual terminology, ontologies, and the representation of specialized knowledge. Knowledge, as regarded in Terminology, is something more complex than a simple hierarchy or a thesaurus-like structure. In this sense, ontologies, understood as a shared conceptualization of a domain that can be communicated between people and/or systems, are better suited for accounting for multilinguality and contextual constraints. The link between Terminology and knowledge representation has been widely acknowledged with the advent of multilingual ontologies.
This is particularly relevant since today’s networked society has generated an increasing number of contexts where multilingualism challenges current knowledge representation methods and techniques. To meet these challenges, it is necessary to deal with semantics since information can be organized, presented, and searched, based on meaning and not just text. Ideally, this would mean that language-independent specialized knowledge could be accessed across different natural languages. There is thus the urgent need for high-quality multilingual knowledge resources that are able to bridge communication barriers, and which can be linked and shared.
Such issues can only be successfully addressed with creative collaborative solutions within disciplines, such as knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, corpus lexicology, and computational linguistics. Accordingly, the TIA 2015 Conference will provide a forum for interdisciplinary research that focuses on the intersection of different disciplines dealing with terminology, multilingualism, lexicology, ontology, and knowledge representation. Papers may address both theoretical questions and methodological aspects on these issues, as well as interdisciplinary approaches developed to facilitate convergence and co-operation in terminological aspects of importance to an increasingly multilingual society.
TIA 2015 solicits both regular papers (8 pages), which present significant work, and short papers (4 pages), which typically present work in progress or a smaller, focused contribution. Regardless of the language of the paper( English, Spanish, or French), all paper presentations will be in English. The submission deadline is June 15. See the conference webpage for more specific submission details.
TOPICS
1. Terminology and ontology acquisition and management
· Applying pattern recognition to enriching terminological resource
· Lexicons, thesauri and ontologies as semantic resources
· Lexicons and ontologies as means for knowledge transfer
· Reusing, standardizing and merging terminological or ontological resources
· Multilingual terminology extraction
· Multilinguality and multimodality in terminological resources
· Management of language resources
1. Terminology and knowledge representation
· Ontological semantics and linguistic
· Ontology localization
· Development of multimedia terminological resources
· Terminology alignment in parallel corpora and other lexical resources
· Representation of terms and conceptual relations in knowledge-based applications
· Comparative studies of terminological resources and/or ontological resources
· Terminological resources in the 21st century
· Harmonization of format and standards in terminological resources
1. Terminology and ontologies for applications
· Interoperability and reusability in knowledge-based tools and applications
· Models and metamodels in annotating semantic and terminological resources
· New R&D directions in terminology for industrial uses and needs
· Terminology for machine translation and natural language processing
Featured plenary speakers
Paul Buitelaar, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Ricardo Miral Usón, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
TIA 2015 CHAIRS
Pamela Faber, University of Granada
Thierry Poibeau, CNRS
The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all over the world.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
See the TIA 2015 website: http://lexicon.ugr.es/tia2015/Submission.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions (long and short papers): 15 June 2015
Notification to authors: 4 September 2015
Final camera-ready paper: 24 September 2015
Conference: 4-6 November 2015
VENUE:
University of Granada,
Faculty of Translation and Interpreting,
18071 Granada, Spain
Contact information: termai2015@gmail.com
Mensaje distribuido a través de la lista de (AESLA)
Authors: Pérez-Paredes, Pascual; Sánchez-Tornel, María; Calero, Jose M. Alcaraz
Source: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Volume 17, Number 4, 2012, pp. 482-515(34)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Abstract:
Our research explores the search behaviour of EFL learners (n=24) by tracking their interaction with corpus-based materials during focus-on-form activities (Observe, Search the corpus, Rewriting). One set of learners made no use of web services other than the BNC during the central Search the corpus activity while the other set resorted to other web services and/or consultation guidelines. The performance of the second group was higher, the learners’ formulation of corpus queries on the BNC was unsophisticated and the students tended to use the BNC search interface to a great extent in the same way as they used Google or similar services. Our findings suggest that careful consideration should be given to the cognitive aspects concerning the initiation of corpus searches, the role of computer search interfaces, as well as the implementation of corpus-based language learning. Our study offers a taxonomy of learner searches that may be of interest in future research.
This is a selection of resources for those wishing to improve their scientific and academic writing in English. It showcases some online resources including courses, academic word lists, online data bases, concordancers, corpora as well as some diy tools.
British Council Writing for a purpose
VI Escribir ciencia en inglés / Writing science in English (Universidad de Murcia)
AWL and definitions. Academic Word List Coxhead (2000). Around 570 headwords
AWL 10 sublists and sublist families
Exploring contexts of AWL (dictionary-based) and academic areas (needs a code)
Test your vocabulary range using Lex Tutor
Oxford online collocations dictionary
Collocation forbetterenglish (Sketch Engine SKELL): examples, word sketches and similar words
Word neighbors (different corpora available)
String net (explore patterns)
Collocaid: collocation errors and editor
Using Google N-GRAM to discover word combinations (intake of *)
CRA (Corpus of Research Articles) Great to test your hypothesis (perform an analysis?)
British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) Sketch engine gateway
BAWE corpus (Coventry site)
Generate word lists (Input url)
Web as a corpus (n-gram browser)
Google books Ngram Viewer Use it to test phraseological uses All the options here
Exploration tools:
Webcorp (The web is your corpus)
Taporware tools (Alberta)
Antconc (Win, MacOS, lINUX)
Beautifulsoup parser (Python)
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Using COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)
For more information on research group and interests, visit our website: Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering.
The 10th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM10) will take place at the University of Haifa (Israel) on September 7-10, 2015.
The aim of MMM is to bring together linguists who work on morphology in an informal setting which guarantees maximal interaction between researchers, and gives young linguists an opportunity to present their work at a conference of moderate size, with no parallel sessions, where fruitful contacts with senior linguists can be established.
The theme of the conference will be:
MMM celebrates its 10th meeting with a look at the present and future of morphology. How has the field evolved over the last years? Where do we stand now? And, most importantly, where do we go from here? We welcome contributions that explore new empirical and methodological directions in morphology, especially in the following domains:
– Morphology and grammar: what is (or should be) the place of morphology in linguistic theory? How do we face well-known challenges to foundational issues such as the notion of word, the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, or the universality of lexical/grammatical categories?
– Morphology and cognition: what can morphology tell us about the mind and language acquisition? How can we reconcile morphological theory and experimental research? What can morphology learn from the other cognitive sciences?
– Morphology and computation: what are the new frontiers for computational approaches to morphology? How is the “big-data effect” affecting morphological research / theory?
Following the MMM tradition, beside the Thematic session (“Quo vadis”), there will be a Free topic session that welcomes all kinds of contributions on morphology and related disciplines.
We explicitly welcome contributions on sign languages, which show how morphology in an alternative natural language modality may shed light on morphology in general.
Invited speakers
Stephen R. Anderson (Yale University)
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University)
Program outline
Sept 7: morning: free guided tour of Haifa
afternoon: Workshop on languages in Israel (Hebrew, Arabic, and local sign languages)
Sept 8: Thematic session “Quo vadis morphology?”
Sept 9: Free topic session
Sept 10: Excursion (details to be posted on the MMM10 website)
Abstract submission
We invite abstracts (500 words maximum, excluding bibliography) for oral presentations or posters. Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by the MMM Permanent Committee and the MMM Local Organizing Committee.
Abstracts should be sent to mmm10haifa@gmail.com.
Please attach two versions of the abstract: one with authors’s names and one anonymous (both should be in .pdf format). In the body of the mail, please specify:
authors’ names and contact details;
title of abstract;
intended session (Thematic session, Free topic session, Workshop on local languages of Israel);
format preference (oral presentation or poster).
Important dates
Deadline for abstract submission: March 1, 2015.
Notification of decision: May 15, 2015.
Program available: May 31, 2015.
Early bird registration: July 1, 2015
Fees
Early bird registration
(until July 1)
Regular registration
(after July 1)
Student fee
20 Euros
35 Euros
Regular fee
55 Euros
75 Euros
MMM Local Organizing Committee
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa), Chair
Edit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Elizabeth Ritter (Ben Gurion University)
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad (Bar Ilan University)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa)
Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University)
MMM Permanent Committee
Jenny Audring (University of Amsterdam)
Geert Booij (Leiden University)
Nikos Koutsoukos (University of Patras)
Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
Angela Ralli (University of Patras)
Sergio Scalise (University of Bologna)
Contact
mmm10haifa@gmail.com
MMM10 website
http://mmm10.haifa.ac.il/index.php?lang=en
MMM permanent website
http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/mmm2/
The Linguistics Research Unit of the Institute of Language and Communication hosted a workshop on ‘Measuring linguistic complexity: A multidisciplinary perspective’ on Friday 24 April, 2015.
The main objective of the workshop were to bring together specialists from a number of different but related fields to discuss the construct of linguistic complexity and how it is typically measured in their respective research fields.
The event was structured around keynote presentations by five distinguished scholars:
A round table closed the workshop.
Details about the event are available on the workshop website: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-
The number of participants is limited. Participation is free of charge but registration is required before Friday 3rd April (via our registration form at http://www.uclouvain.be/en-
Thomas François (Centre de traitement automatique du langage) & Magali Paquot (Centre for English Corpus Linguistics)
Conclusions
A multidimensional construct: Bulté & Housen (2012:23)
Shared challenges, shared oportunities
Where is the place of theory here?
Do we need new measures? Do we ned to validate existing ones?
The many facets of complexity.
Formal linguistics may be a good starting point but don’t have much to offer.
Building a research community ?
