New book: Corpus Linguistics for ELT

  Corpus Linguistics for ELT: Research and Practice Ivor Timmis From the introduction: The challenge of fostering a fruitful relationship between corpus linguistics and ELT was clearly set out by Conrad (2000: 556): Corpus grammarians must strive to reach more audiences that include teachers and must emphasize concrete pedagogical applications … In fact, the strongest force … Read more

CFP International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

The International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (IJLCR) is a forum for researchers who collect, annotate, and analyse computer learner corpora and/or use them to investigate topics in Second Language Acquisition and linguistic theory in general, inform foreign language teaching, develop learner-corpus-informed tools (e.g. courseware, proficiency tests, dictionaries and grammars) or conduct natural language processing … Read more

Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics

Through the Corpora List :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics / Statistics for Corpus Linguistics http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool Lancaster University, UK – 14th to 17th July 2015   Since 2010, Lancaster University has run a highly successful series of free-to attend summer training events. In 2015, we will for the first time be running two corpus linguistics events in … Read more

Corpus Linguistics 2015: @UCREL_Lancaster registration open

From the Corpora List ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Corpus Linguistics 2015: In honour of the life and work of Geoffrey Leech REGISTRATION is now open     The eighth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2015) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 21st July 2015 to Friday 24th July 2015. The main conference will be preceded by a … Read more

Innovative Corpus Query and Visualization Tools

QueryVis – Workshop on Innovative Corpus Query and Visualization Tools at Nodalida 2015, Vilnius (Lithuania), May, 11th, 2015 Recent years have seen an increased interest in and availability of many different kinds of corpora. These range from small, but carefully annotated treebanks to large parallel corpora and very large monolingual corpora for big data research. … Read more

1st Intl. NLP for Informal Text- Deadline 17/4

The 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Informal Text (NLPIT 2015) In conjunction with The International Conference on Web Engineering(ICWE 2015) June 23, 2015, Rotterdam, The Netherlands http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~badiehm/nlpit2015/ Overview The rapid growth of Internet usage in the last two decades adds new challenges to understand the informal user generated content (UGC) on the … Read more