Category: corpus linguistics

4th Learner Corpus Research Conference, Bolzano, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017

4th Learner Corpus Research Conference
Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017

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Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair by Sunday 15 January 2017.

Notification of the outcome of the review process will be sent by 31 March 2017.

Call for Papers

Following the successful conferences in Louvain‐la‐Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, Bergen (Norway) in 2013 and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) in 2015, the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference will be hosted by the Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism at EURAC Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. The conference, organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, aims to be a showcase for the latest developments in the field and will feature full paper presentations, work in progress reports, poster presentations, software demos and a book exhibition.

The theme of LCR 2017 is “Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research”.

Conference Venue: European Academy Bozen/Bolzano – EURAC Research

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Philip Durrant (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri Perugia, Italy)
The keynote speakers will adress the theme of LCR 2017 in their respective lectures on L1 writing  development and Learner Corpus Research, quantitative methods in Learner Corpus Research, and Learner Corpus Research and Italian as L2. We welcome papers that address all aspects of Learner  Corpus Research, in particular the following ones:

* Corpora as pedagogical resources
* Corpus‐based transfer studies
* Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora
* English as a Lingua Franca
* Error detection and correction of learner language
* Extracting language features from learner corpora
* Innovative annotations in learner corpora
* Language for academic/specific purposes
* Learner varieties
* Learner corpora for less commonly taught languages
* Learner Corpus Research and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
* Learner Corpus Research and Natural Language Processing
* Links between Learner Corpus Research and other research methodologies (e.g. experimental methods)
* Search engines for learner corpora
* Statistical methods in learner corpus studies
* Task and learner variables

There will be four different categories of presentation:

* Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
* Work in Progress (WiP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion)
* Corpus/software demonstration
* Poster
* The Work in Progress reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback.

The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts
Your abstract should be between 600 and 700 words (excluding a list of references). Abstracts should  provide the following:
* clearly articulated research question(s) and its/their relevance;
* the most important details about research approach, data and methods;
* the main results and their interpretation.

Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcr2017) by Sunday 15 January 2017. Please follow instructions provided on the conference website (http://lcr2017.eurac.edu).
Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee. Notification of the outcome of  the review process will be sent by 31 March 2017.

The LCR 2017 organising committee
Andrea Abel (EURAC Research)
María Belén Díez‐Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Daniela Gasser (EURAC Research)
Aivars Glaznieks (EURAC Research)
Verena Lyding (EURAC Research)
Lionel Nicolas (EURAC Research)

The LCR 2017 scientific committee
Andrea Abel (EURAC Research)
Katherine Ackerley (Università degil Studi di Padova)
Annelie Ädel (Dalarna University)
Nicolas Ballier (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7)
María Belén Díez‐Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Marcus Callies (Universität Bremen)
Erik Castello (Università degil Studi di Padova)
Francesca Coccetta (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia)
Pieter de Haan (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Hilde Hasselgård (Universitet i Oslo)
Sandra Deshors (New Mexico State University)
Ana Diaz‐Negrillo (Universidad de Granada)
Michael Flor (ETS)
John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong)
Lynne Flowerdew (independent researcher)
Fanny Forsberg Lundell (Stockholm University)
Gaëtanelle Gilquin (University of Louvain)
Sandra Götz (Justus Liebig Universität Gießen)
Solveig Granath (Karlstad University)
Sylviane Granger (Universtié catholique de Louvain)
Nicholas Groom (University of Birmingham)
Jirka Hana (Charles University Prague)
Shin’ichiro Ishikawa (Kobe University)
Jarmo Harri Jantunen (University of Jyväskylä)
Scott Jarvis (Ohio University)
Marie Källkvist (Lund University Sweden)
Agnieszka Lenko‐Szymanska (University of Warsaw)
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt‐Universität Berlin)
Carla Marello (Università degil Studi Torino)
Fanny Meunier (Universtié catholique de Louvain)
Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen)
Florence Myles (University of Essex)
Susan Nacey (Hedmark University College)
Lionel Nicolas (EURAC Research)
Michael O’Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (Universitetet i Oslo)
Magali Paquot (Universtié catholique de Louvain/FNRS)
Pascual Pérez‐Paredes (University of Cambridge)
Tom Rankin (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Paul Rayson (UCREL, Lancaster University)
Ute Römer (University of Michigan)
Anna Siyanova‐Chanturia (Victoria University of Wellington)
Jennifer Thewissen (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Nina Vyatkina (University of Kansas)
Heike Zinsmeister (Universität Hamburg)

For inquiries, contact Andrea Abel: Andrea . Abel @ eurac . edu

Corpus Pragmatics: new journal

 

Corpus pragmatics (Springer) is s platform for research and discussion in the linguistic discipline at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics.

A forum for research and discussion on the new linguistic discipline at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics.

Aims to enlarge and implement current pragmatic theories that have yet to benefit from empirical corpus support.

Offers original research papers, short research notes and occasional themed issues

This journal offers a forum for research and discussion in the new linguistic discipline that stands at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics. The contents include original research papers, short research notes, and occasional thematic issues.

Editor-in-Chief: Jesús Romero-Trillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Email: jesus.romero@uam.es

13th Corpus Linguistics in the South 26 November

 

Corpus Linguistics in the South 13 SCALE AND GRAIN IN CORPUS LINGUISTICS

University of Suffolk, Waterfront Lecture Theatre 1
Saturday 26 November 2016

Programme
10 – 10:45 Opening coffee/refreshments and discussion

10:45 Brief welcoming remarks

11 – 11:30 The Hillary Clinton emails: corpus linguistics meets the real world
Rachele de Felice, University College London

11:30 – 12:00 Grain and scale: Looking at small data sets in broader sociocultural contexts
Colleen Cotter, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis and Danniella Samos
Queen Mary University of London and (LMA) Birkbeck, University of London

12:30 – 1:00 Obviously native: uses of adverbs in native and advanced learner language in spoken English Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Camino Bueno
University of Cambridge and (CB) Universidad Pública de Navarra

Break for lunch at cafés surrounding Waterfront building

2:00 – 2:30 Corpus linguistics and news representations: a corpus-assisted framing analysis of mental health and arts participation messages in the British press
Dimitrinka Atanasova and Nelya Koteyko, Queen Mary University of London

2:30 – 3:00 From colony to text: the Twitter essay as a theoretical and corpor(e)al challenge
Diana ben-Aaron, University of Suffolk

3:00 Brief closing remarks
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Dr Diana ben-Aaron at d.ben-aaron@uos.ac.uk by 24 November. As always with CLS, there is no charge for participants. Light refreshments will be provided and an informal dinner meetup will be arranged for those arriving on Friday night.
The University of Suffolk is located on the Ipswich waterfront, within walking distance of the train station (ca 75 mins to London) and National Express coach stop. A scalable map, campus map and links to other information are here. There are a number of inexpensive hotels in Ipswich and we are happy to advise on practical arrangements.

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First post below

We are pleased to announce that the 13th Corpus Linguistics in the South event will take place on Saturday, 26 November 2016, at the University of Suffolk in Ipswich. For this session we would like to continue the focus on theory and methodology, asking:

– How do we select data sets and units of analysis?
– How is this influenced by scale of resources?
– How does this affect our findings?

– How do these objects of study relate to speaker/reader interactions with the original texts?

– How can we ensure that our analyses bear relevance to these interactions?

Corpus work has enabled the identification of new linguistic objects of study, as well as the re-examination of  pre-existing categories in syntax, semantics, varieties and genres. Advances in data processing have enlarged our ability to investigate new categories. However, if corpus linguistic findings are to be relevant for other branches of linguistics, we need to problematise the correspondence between our methodological choices and the way the texts are used in situ by users or populations. This is particularly relevant as digital texts enable new kinds of displays and uses. With some kinds of new media, such as games, basic default units of analysis may be difficult to define. Even with more traditional texts there are questions to be asked about our categories, such as what is a meaningful unit of time in diachronic research?

These questions offer the opportunity to dig deeper into previous CLS topics, such as small and large corpora as discussed at Sussex last spring, as well as public and professional discourse, and social media. Thus we welcome proposals which respond to any of the questions above, or other questions relating to the construction and role of categories in our analysis:

Presentations should be 30 minutes in length, and will be followed by time for discussion. If you would like to participate, please send a short (250 word) abstract by 15 October tod.ben-aaron@ucs.ac.uk, as an attachment without name or affiliation. Acceptance of submitted abstracts will be notified at the beginning of November.

Contact person:

Dr Diana ben-Aaron
Lecturer in English
University of Suffolk, Neptune Quay, Ipswich IP4 1QJ
@diana180 | d.ben-aaron@uos.ac.uk | www.uos.ac.uk/english

 

 

 

 

Pre-announcing Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

 

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Through the BAAL mail list

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The International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017 will take place from Monday 24 to Friday 28 July at the University of Birmingham.

Opening plenary

Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham

Keynote speakers

Susan Conrad (Portland State University, US)
Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK)
Christian Mair (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Mike Scott (Aston University, UK)

SACODEYL corpora #corpuslinguistics in The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology

 

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Corpus types and uses
B Murphy, E Riordan – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and …, 2016
… 2008). Another is the SACODEYL corpus, which includes transcribed interviews with
British, German, French, Italian Spanish, Lithuanian and Romanian adolescents
between 13 and 18 years of age (Hoffstaedter and Kohn 2009). …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology
F Farr, L Murray – 2016
… Page 19. Acronyms OLPC OMC OPUS PC PLE PLN RPG RSS SACODEYL SBCSAE SCMC
SEN SLA SOLE SSI Model TEC TESOL TNC VLE VOICE VSL WiA WoW ZPD one laptop per
child Oslo Multilingual Corpus Open Parallel Corpus personal computer personal learning …

Spoken language corpora and pedagogical applications
A Caines, M McCarthy, A O’Keeffe – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning …, 2016
… Focusing on an innovative tool developed to make corpus use easier to access for language
teaching, Farr (2010) details the potential of the SACODEYL (System Aided Compilation and
Open Distribution of European Youth Language, a European Commission–funded project …

Written language corpora and pedagogical applications
A Chambers – The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and …, 2016
… 241–245), based on Mur Dueñas (2009), while the other focuses on intermediate learners of
EAP (pp. 260–263), based on Boulton (2010). Notes 1 http://www. um. es/sacodeyl (accessed
27 June 2014). 2 http://www. um. es/backbone (accessed 27 June 2014). 3 http://www. …

Corpus linguistics in the South 11, U. Sussex

 

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Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, 27 February 2016

Some of the presentations

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Lee Oakley, University of Birmingham
Some challenges when analysing a Census Corpus

The SexEd Corpus: a census corpus 1950-2014
93,202 words
11-16 year olds
Teenage readership
How are different sexualities presented to British teenagers?

Methodological approach to more qualitative analyses
All analysis is comparison

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Jill Bowie &  Sean Wallis, UCL

Investigating changes in structures and collocations, from a treebank to a megacorpus

Corpus: COHA (Davies 2012)

The to-infinitival perfect

80% decrease in use since 1820

402 verb lemmas in order of frequency

Top 30 collocates account for 95% of tokens (top 95% percintile)

Seem, Appear, Say, Ought, Be, Report, Claim

Seeming group

Cognition group

Cognition and saying group

Modality group

Grammatical change tends to be lexically constrained

Benefits of using dual corpora (ICE-GB + COHA)

We need open data to do more with the corpus data

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Taming the beast: getting to grips with a mega corpus.

Chris Turner, Coventry

Oxford corpus of English

some / any

Corpus of law reports

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Frequency and grammaticalization in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pdgin English

Gabriel Ozon, Sheffield

estimated 50% of the population use it

West of Cameroon

Stigmatised status

Pilot study: 30 hours recordings, British Academy

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How to use a nanocorpus. Enriching corpora of interpreting.
 
Camille Ciollard & Bart Defrancq
 
Female interpreters hedge more than male speakers
 
Use of the marker well
 

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Capturing the zoo: a system for downloading, preparing and managing corpus data from online forums.
 
Clausia Viggiana & John Williams
 

Open source tools 
Citizen science 
To capture and interrogate linguistic data form online CS forums: zooniverse
 

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How small corpora paradoxically uncovered the nexr quark in corpus studies.
 
Bill Louw, Coventry & Zimbabwe
 

Theory of scientific method, William Whewell, Trinity College, Colligation.
 
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