Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
From data to evidence in English language research: Big data, rich data, uncharted data ***Conference in Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 October 2015*** To diversify the discussion of data explosion in the humanities, the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG) is organising an academic conference that addresses the use of new data sources, … Read more
Check out Developing annotation solutions for online data driven learning, P. Pérez-Paredes, J.M. Álcaraz Calero, ReCALL 21, 55-75
Call for papers Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL) (official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO, published by Academy Publisher)Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712) is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal published annually, aiming at the publication of original research based on corpus data from different languages and language families and from … Read more
The University of Trier has the honour of organizing the 36th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English in Trier, Germany Conference dates: 27–31 May 2015 The theme chosen for the conference is: Words, Words, Words – Corpora and Lexis ******************************************************************* Please support our conference grant proposal by signing up … Read more
This free MOOC Offers practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in social sciences and humanities. It is an 8-week course and is run by Lancaster University. More information here.
An NPR feature which disccusses W. Pennebaker contribution to human use of words. This was also the subject of my own contribution to the 2010 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies within the session “Interdisciplinary research between Corpus Linguistics and Clinical Psychology” at Boston University, MA.