corpus linguistics

Understanding language in its natural habitat

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Linguists and psychologists often study sentences in isolation, which may be akin to studying animals in separate cages in a zoo. I have been guilty of this in much of my own work. Our understanding of language will undoubtedly benefit from more focus on language in its natural habitat: conversation (e.g., Du Bois et al., … Read more

Recordings of #corpuslinguistics LAEL webinars

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This message distributed on the corpora list by Prof Tony Berber Sardinha, Director, LAEL. Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics The recordings of the following LAEL webinars are available at:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-sGRAJFwaPj0I4U3aR0jA Speaker: Tove Larsson, Uppsala University, Sweden; Un. Catholique Louvain, BelgiumTitle: On Learner Corpus Research and things I wish someone had told me when I was a … Read more

SyntagNet

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This information from corpora-bounces@uib.no SyntagNet, a resource with 88,000 lexical-semantic combinations, is now out! We are proud to announce that SyntagNet 1.0 (http://syntagnet.org) is now available for download at http://syntagnet.org/download. Developed at the Sapienza NLP group (http://nlp.uniroma1.it), the multilingual Natural Language Processing group at the Sapienza University of Rome, SyntagNet is a manually-curated large-scale lexical-semantic … Read more

Baby TaLC 2020 postponed

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URL: https://langident.hypotheses.org/talc2020/baby-talc2020-e-grapheles En fonction des dernières informations concernant le coronavirus et les recommandations officielles en France, nous ne pourrons plus organiser en présentiel le colloque au mois de mai. L’organisation envisagée avec des moyens technologiques est également compromise dans la mesure où les restrictions concernent l’ensemble des personnels et des locaux. En ce sens, nous projetons de reporter ce colloque … Read more

V online summer school: Writing science in English

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08/09/2020 – 11/09/2020 Online You can join this course here. Inscripciones: URL. Writing for the masses. A practical introduction to writing scientific -academic English in blogs – September 8 Dissemination and impact of our research have become as important as research itself in many ways. Doing science in the 21st century cannot be understood as … Read more