Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Through the Corpora list ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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 … Read more
Corpora and Discourse International Conference: Call for papers Siena University Pontignano Conference Centre June 30-July 2, 2016 (June 30 Conference workshop; July 1-2 Main Conference) Main Conference Plenary speakers: Michael Hoey (Liverpool), Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna, WU), Michael Stubbs (Trier) Corpus-based and corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) investigate the employment of corpus techniques to shed light … Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS, LLT Special Issue on: Corpora in Language Learning and Teaching Special issue editors: Nina Vyatkina and Alex Boulton Corpora in their many guises have been applied for the purposes of language learning and language teaching since they emerged in their modern form in the 1960s. Whereas originally, more pedagogical applications were of … Read more
GraphColl is a tool for building and exploring networks of linguistic collocations. It was developed at CASS at Lancaster University in 2014-15. The concept and design of GraphColl is covered in Brezina et. al. (2015), published at IJCL.
Corpus Linguistics Conference 2015, University of Lancaster, UK Thanks to @TonyMcEnery, @HardieResearch and everybody at @UCREL_Lancaster for organizing a wonderful conference. Abstract book download: A selection of talks and personal notes: Learner corpus research plenary #cl2015 Multi-dimensional analysis of oral proficiency interviews #cl2015 Non-obvious meaning in CL and CADS #cl2015 Representation of benefit claimants in … Read more
From the Forensic Linguistics e-mail list :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Symposium on “Expertise in Language and Law” will take place on Friday 27th November 2015. This Symposium is part of the Advanced Research Residency in Language and Law which takes place at Cardiff University from October to December this year. The full program me of events is … Read more