TaLC 12 will be held from 20 to 23 July 2016 at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
Important dates:
Call for papers: 15 October 2015
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2016
Notifications of acceptance: 15 February 2016
Registration opens: 15 February 2016
Registration closes: 15 June 2016
Conference: 20-23 July 2016
2016 PLIN Day, hosted by the Linguistics Research Unit of UCLouvain in Belgium.
After last year’s successful edition on Lexical complexity, this year’s topic is ‘Language and the new (instant) media’. The PLIN Day will take place on 12 May 2016 in Louvain-la-Neuve.
More information and registration (free for all Belgian participants)
The main objective of the workshop is to bring together specialists from a number of different but related fields to discuss the specificities of language in the new media. The workshop will thus offer a view of different approaches to language in the new media. The event will be structured around five keynote presentations and poster sessions. We are happy to welcome the following keynote speakers:
Patricia Bou-Franch (Universitat de València)
Walter Daelemans (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Elisabeth Stark (University of Zurich)
Caroline Tagg (The Open University)
Olga Volckaert-Legrier (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
The poster sessions, which will include time for a short oral presentation of each poster, offer a forum for numerous other research trends. If you’re a PhD student, you’re eligible for the Best Poster Award!
Posters may deal with any of the following linguistic domains:
Discourse analysis
Language norms and contacts
Communication
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Language Statistics
We also invite companies which develop research or research-based applications concerning language and new media, to submit a poster proposal.
Important dates:
Deadline for poster proposal submissions: 31 January 2016
Notification of acceptance: 1 March 2016
Submission of Power Point Presentations for the posters boost session: 1 May 2016
We are also happy to inform you that the Annual Linguistic Day of the Linguistic Society of Belgium will also be held at UCL, on 13 MAY 2016, the day after the PLIN day (http://www.uclouvain.be/en-528988.html)
Best regards,
Convenors:
Louise-Amélie Cougnon (Girsef – Cental), Barbara De Cock (Valibel – Discours et variation) and Cédrick Fairon (Cental)
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Prof. Cédrick Fairon
Directeur
Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL)
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Thanks to Anne O’Keeffe
FREE WEBINARS
13:00 GMT today 26th November, 2015
“‘Appropriate methodologies for studying classroom discourse”
Prof. Steve Walsh, Newcastle University
Link to webinar: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/maallearnerdiscourse/
17:00 GMT tomorrow 27th November, 2015
“Using corpora to inform teaching and materials development”
Prof. Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University
Link to webinar: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/maalissuesinlinguistics/
Recordings of these will be posted next week.
Recording of Prof. Ronald Carter’s webinar from yesterday on “From Spoken English to Written English: New worlds and new descriptions”
is available at: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/p1nz3skbvd6/
Ce corpus, constitué à l’été 2015 par Catrine Bang Nilsen, présente 5 interactions spontanées d’environ une heure chacune entre apprenants norvégiens intermédiaires et avancés du français et francophones de France. Sa transcription par Clémence Michel et Jérôme Barbet suit les conventions du corpus CFPQ. Afin de respecter la confidentialité des informateurs, les films des interactions sont accessibles au CRISCO pour des fins de recherche scientifique.
Thanks to Prof. Esch (U. Cambridge) for this pointer.
Through the Corpora list
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The Windows program Collocate 1.0 is available for download at michaelbarlow.com. The software extracts collocations in various ways (including n-grams) and provides scores based on MI, t-score and Log Likelihood. This version of the software is now free.
If you want to simply check out the functionality of the software, or have misplaced your manual, you can get it from
https://auckland.academia.edu/MichaelBarlow
