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Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics

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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 parallel:

 

  • The UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics
  • The UCREL/CASS Summer School in Statistics for Corpus Linguistics

 

Sponsored by UCREL at Lancaster University – one of the world’s leading and longest-established centres for corpus-based research – and by the ESRC-funded CASS project, these events’ aim is to support students of language and linguistics in the development of advanced skills in corpus methods.

Both are intended primarily for postgraduate research students (and secondarily for Masters-level students, postdoctoral researchers, and others); both assume at least a basic knowledge of corpus linguistics (but in the case of the Statistics Summer School, no knowledge of statistics is assumed).

The four-day programme consists of a series of intensive two-hour sessions, some involving practical work, others more discussion-oriented. Some sessions are shared across the two events. The instructors include, as well as speakers from Lancaster University, external guest speakers who are prominent specialists in their respective areas.

For a list of topics and speakers in the UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, see http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/corpusling.php

 

For a list of topics and speakers in the UCREL/CASS Summer School in Statistics for Corpus Linguistics, see http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/stats.php

These events are part of a larger set of five co-located Lancaster Summer Schools in Interdisciplinary Digital Methods; the other events include training in corpus methods directed at non-linguists; see the website for further information:

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool

Note that the summer schools run the week immediately before the Corpus Linguistics 2015 conference, for the benefit of anyone who might wish to attend both.

 

How to register

Our Summer Schools are free to attend, but registration in advance is compulsory, as places are limited.

The deadline for registrations is Sunday 7th June 2015, but we cannot guarantee that places will still be available at that point!

The application forms are available on the event website here as is further information on the programme.

Reunión de la comisión académica 11/03/2015

CONVOCATORIA DE LA COMISIÓN ACADÉMICA
10/03/2015

Sala de Juntas del Rectorado, 17:30 horas

ORDEN DEL DÍA
1. Lectura y aprobación, si procede, de las actas de la sesiones anteriores.

2. Informe del Vicerrector.

Se están realizando fichas por áreas de conocimiento con carga docente del área. Parece que la información será dinámica. Incluye el número de jubilaciones previstas. Los puntos de ACI en el área, cargos de gestión etc.

Se tiene que decidir sobre la política de personal. Para eso necesario tener estas fichas.

Se habla también sobre las prácticas de alumnos de la UMU y de la UCAM en los hospitales públicos de la región. Se ha recopilado toda la info existente sobre los alumnos UMU en los hospitales.

Ha comenzado la la negociación del convenio colectivo con el personal laboral. Se está barajando la creación de nuevas figuras de Asociados 1+1 y 2+2.

3. Solicitudes de plazas de profesorado para el curso 2014/2015.

4. Renovación miembros titulares y suplentes de la Comisión de Cambio de Área.

5. Comisiones de selección de profesorado contratado.

6. Solicitudes de permisos de Personal Docente.
7. Ruegos y preguntas.

Corpus Linguistics 2015: @UCREL_Lancaster registration open

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Corpus Linguistics 2015: In honour of the life and work of Geoffrey Leech

 
 


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 workshop day on Monday 20th July.

This series of conferences began in 2001 with an event celebrating the career of Professor Geoffrey Leech, on the occasion of his retirement. In August of 2014, we reported with great sadness Geoff’s sudden death.

By dedicating this eighth conference in the Corpus Linguistics series once again to a celebration of Geoff’s life, his career, and his truly remarkable influence on the field, we once more pay tribute to, and commemorate, a remarkable intellect and a sorely-missed colleague and friend.

Conference themes and topics

The goals of the conference are:

. To gather together current and developing research in the study and application of corpus linguistics; . To push the field forwards by promoting dialogue among the many different users of corpora across interconnected sub-disciplines of linguistics – be they descriptive, theoretical, applied or computational; . To explore new challenges both within corpus linguistics, and in the extension of corpus approaches to new fields of study.

CL2015 will have three thematic streams and a general programme.

Stream A: A tribute to Geoffrey Leech

For this stream we invite contributions using corpus methods in any of the branches of linguistics with which Geoffrey Leech’s research was especially closely associated, namely:

. Pragmatics
. Stylistics
. Description of English grammar and grammatical change . Grammatical annotation of corpus texts

Stream B: Discourse, Politics and Society

For this stream we invite contributions in the following areas:

. The use of corpora in discourse analysis . Corpus approaches to the study of new media . Applications of corpus approaches in the social sciences and humanities

Stream C: Language learning and teaching

For this stream we invite contributions in the following areas:

. Learner corpus research
. Corpus-based work in English language teaching, including ESP and EAP . Use of corpora in second language acquisition studies . Data-driven learning . Development of learner materials

General Programme

For the general programme, we invite contributions on as broad and inclusive a basis as possible. The areas in which we particularly welcome submissions include but are not limited to:

. Corpus methodology:
o Critical explorations of existing measures and methods in corpus linguistics; o New methods and techniques in corpus development, annotation and analysis; o New tools and techniques developed in corpus-based computational linguistics; o Advances in quantitative techniques.
. Theoretical corpus linguistics:
o The interface between corpus and linguistic theory; o Syntax, morphology, semantics; o Psycholinguistic and cognitive explorations; o Multi-lingual comparative and contrastive analysis; o Historical linguistics.
. Lexis and lexicon:
o Lexicography;
o Collocation and meaning in context.
. Sociolinguistics, language variation and applied linguistics:
o Regional and social variation in language; o Code-switching and bilingualism; o Forensic linguistics; o Genre, register and textual variation.

Plenary speakers

We are delighted to announce that the following speakers have accepted our invitation to give plenary lectures at CL2015:

. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University, USA) . Sylviane Granger (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) . Michaela Mahlberg (University of Nottingham, UK) . Alan Partington (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Call for pre-conference workshops

As noted above, CL2015 will include a workshop day on Monday 20th July 2015. We hereby issue a call for workshop proposals on any theme relevant to the conference.

“Workshops” may take two main forms.

The first type is the colloquium-style workshop, which operates as a mini-conference with its own programme committee and call for papers to be presented: proposals for this type of workshop should specify the scope of the workshop, who its organisers will be, and whether the creation of workshop proceedings is envisaged. Proposals should also provide an initial version of the text of the call for papers.

The other main type of workshop is a practical or applied workshop providing a demonstration of or training in some particular corpus linguistic technique or piece of software. In this case the proposal must explain the content of the workshop, provide an initial version of the text of a call for participation, and give an indication of the workshop’s IT requirements, if any.

We are also happy to consider innovative forms of workshop intermediate between colloquium-style workshop and practical workshop.

All proposals must in addition specify the proposed running time. Our timetable allows for the following lengths of workshop:

. Full-day workshop – up to 7 hours (plus lunch/breaks) . Half-day workshop – up to 3.5 hours (plus break) . Short workshop – up to 2 hours (single session)

There is no fixed format for workshop proposals, as long as they include all the details specified above. Proposals should be sent by email to Andrew Hardie by 15th December. We are happy to respond to informal expressions of interest in advance of formal submission of a proposal.

Call for papers, posters and panels

We invite submission of abstracts for papers, posters and panels on any topic relevant to the conference themes.

For this conference, we are requesting extended abstracts (750-1500 words), as we do not plan to produce a volume of conference proceedings. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee.

Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please note: paper submissions should present either complete research, or research in progress where at least some substantial results have been achieved. Work in progress which has yet to produce results can instead be submitted as a poster abstract.

Submissions for panel discussions should take the form of a single 1500 word abstract on behalf of all speakers to be on the panel. The abstract should include a note to specify whether the panel is intended to be 1 hour or 1.5 hours in length.

Submissions for poster presentations should be shorter (400-750 words). We especially welcome poster abstracts that (a) report on innovative research that is in its very earliest phases (b) report on new software or corpus data resources.

We especially encourage abstract submissions from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

All abstracts must be submitted via the conference website; the submission system is now live (see http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2015/call.php ). Details on how to submit an abstract to a specific conference stream are available on the website.

Key dates

. End October 2014 – call for papers; call for proposals for pre-conference workshops . 
7th January 2015 – deadline for abstract submission . 
16th January 2015 – earlybird registration opens . 
24th January 2015 – all abstract review outcomes will be returned by this date . 
30th March 2015 – end of earlybird registration (rates rise) .
 21st June 2015 – end of main registration (late registration not guaranteed, though we’ll try) . 
21st June 2015 – final deadline for cancellation with refund of registration fees . 
20th July 2015 – pre-conference workshop day . 
21st July to 24th July 2015 – main conference

General information

For information on registration, accommodation travel etc., see the conference website: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2015 ; email: cl2015@lancaster.ac.uk

The conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk), which brings together the Department of Linguistics and English Language (http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/) with the School of Computing and Communications (http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/).

Local organising committee of CL 2015: Andrew Hardie (chair), Tony McEnery, Paul Rayson.

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. It remains a challenge to query the multilayer annotations of small corpora, to efficiently access large corpora as well as to visualize the query results.

Invited Speaker

We are proud to announce that the plenary speech “Scaling out corpus technology: the open source query and analysis engine KorAP” will be presented by Marc Kupietz (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim).

Topics to be covered
Querying corpora with multiple levels of annotation
Querying parallel and multi-parallel corpora
Visualization of annotation and alignment
Visualization of query results over very large corpora
Querying by example
Querying multimodal corpora

Workshop Format

We are planning for a half-day workshop with paper presentations, demos and an invited talk.
Call for Papers

We are seeking short papers (4 pages) or long papers (8 pages) on the topics specified above. Papers should be formated according to the Nodalida guidelines. Submission will be through EasyChair.
Important Dates

Paper submission 16. March 2015
Information to authors 17. April 2015
Final papers due 1. May 2015

Contact

Gintarė Grigonytė (Stockholm University)
queryvis_nodalida@ifi.uzh.ch

 

 

Curso: redacción propuestas académicas & financiación en inglés

IV Curso: Escribir ciencia en inglés. Curso práctico sobre redacción científica.

La redacción de propuestas académicas y de financiación.

Curso de Verano UNIMAR, Universidad de Murcia, 15-17 de julio de 2015

Inscripción 

Detalles del curso

Programa

Miércoles 15 julio

9-11:45 Características generales de la redacción científica
Dra. Purificación Sánchez, Universidad de Murcia

12-14:45 Writing good conference abstracts
Dra. Pilar Aguado, Universidad de Murcia

17-20:00 Successful communication with a Journal editor.
Dra. Rosa María Manchón, Universidad de Murcia

Jueves 16 julio

9-11:45
Workshop 1: re-writing our science. Frequent mistakes by Spanish native speakers
Debra Lynne Westall Pixton, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

12-14:45
Workshop 2: re-writing our science. Frequent mistakes by Spanish native speakers
Dra. Marisa Carrió, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

17:00-20:00
Workshop: Writing grant proposals.
Dra. Begoña Bellés Universitat Jaume I

Viernes 17 julio

9-11:45
Succesful science: Project summaries in
ERC – Starting grants in the life sciences and in the humanities and social sciences (1)
Dr. Pascual Pérez-Paredes,
Universidad de Murcia

12-14:45
Succesful science: Project summaries in
ERC – Starting grants in the life sciences and in the humanities and social sciences (2)
Dr. Pascual Pérez-Paredes

 

Academic staff

Dr. Pilar Aguado joined the English Department at the University of Murcia in 1990. She took her PhD in 1997 (Shakespeare’s Stage Directions: F1 and Editorial Intervention in the 18th Century) and got her permanent position as a Senior lecturer in 2004. Her main teaching and research interests are Teaching English as a Foreign Language, ICTs, Materials Design and ESP. She has been a Language Advisor for CAGE Panel, Cambridge University Press (2003/05), has been involved in several research projects on Learner Corpora and Orality, and collaborates as a referee in some international journals in the field of English Studies. She is now involved in a National Project on Legal Language based on corpora.

Begoña Bellés Fortuño is a tenured lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the English Studies department at Universitat Jaume I. She currently lectures English Studies degree students as well as in the degrees of Medicine and Nursing. She also teaches English courses for future Erasmus students and for graduate students within the frame of the Erasmus + Programme for internships. She currently coordinates the International Programmes Exchange for the English Studies degree students. Her research interests are focused on Discourse Analysis, and more concretely, academic discourse both written and spoken, as well as on Contrastive and Corpus Linguistics, as her latest national and international publications show. She has published articles such as Spoken academic discourse: an approach to research on lectures (2005) in RESLA (Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada), she has a co-authorship of the book Hablar inglés en la universidad: Docencia e Investigación (Septem ediciones 2008), she has also co-edited the book Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching (2010, Bloomsbury) among other publications.

María Luisa Carrió-Pastor is a senior lecturer of English language at the Department of Applied Linguistics (Universitat Politècnica de València). She is the head of the Department and the director of the Master Languages and Technology. Her research areas are contrastive linguistics and the study of academic and professional discourse both for second language acquisition and for discourse analysis. She has also supervised doctoral dissertations in the PhD programme Languages and Technology. Her publications include papers in several journals such as RESLA, ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Sky, Journal of Linguistics, Signos, Ibérica, etc. She has also been the editor of several books and co-author of books for learners of English for specific purposes.

Rosa M. Manchón is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Murcia,  where she teaches undergraduate courses in applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) as well as postgraduate courses in research methodology, language teaching methodology and SLA.  Her research interests and publications focus on cognitive aspects of SLA and SLA-oriented L2 writing. She has published articles in journals such as Communication and Cognition, Learning and Instruction, International Journal of English Studies, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Learning, and The Modern Language Journal. She has edited several guest edited issues in IRAL (2008, with Jasone Cenoz), International Journal of English Studies (2001, 2007), Journal of Second Language Writing (2008, with Pieter de Haan) and AILA Review (2014) as well as several books: Writing in Foreign Language Contexts: Learning, Teaching and Research (Multilingual Matters, 2009), Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional Language (John Benjamins, 2011), L2 Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives (De Gruyter Mouton, 2012),Task-based L2 Language Learning: Insights from and for L2 Writing (with H. Byrnes. John Benjamins, 2014), and The Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing (with Paul Patsuda, 2016).  She serves on several editorial borads (including both prestigious journal and book series). She is past AILA Publications Coordinator (2011-2014) and Co-Editor of The Journal of Second Language Writing (2007-2014). In the last ten years she has been the head researcher of 7 long-term, publicly financed research projects.

Dr. Pascual Pérez-Paredes is a qualified Official Translator (Traductor Jurado) appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a senior lecturer with the Department of English at the University of Murcia . His main interests are quantitative research of register variation, the compilation and use of language corpora and the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching/Learning. He has been project coordinator of a MINERVA initiative funded by the European Commission SACODEYL; coordinator in Spain of Corpora for Content & Language Integrated Learning, a LLP K2 Transversal programme, responsable for the Spanish EFL component of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (UCL) and research member of the The International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (TUFS, Japan). Some of his most recent publications include research papers on JCR-indexed journals such as International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, System, Language, Learning and Technology or CALL, all of them dealing with the interplay of language corpora, language analysis and language education. In 2009 and 2010, he was a Research Fellow with the English Department in Northern Arizona University, developing research with Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen. Pascual Pérez-paredes is the Principal Investigator (PI) for Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering at UM. He has co-edited a special issue for ReCALL journal (Cambridge University Press) entitled “Researching new uses of corpora for language teaching and learning”.

Dr. Purificación Sánchez Hernández is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Murcia where she teaches undergraduate and master courses on English for Specific Purposes: Science and Technology and Applied Linguistics. Her major research interests comprise scientific discourse, analysis of the language of Biology and the compilation and use of language corpora. Some of his most recent publications include Researching Specilized Languages, co-edited with V. Bhatia and P. Pérez-Paredes, John Benjamins and the co-edition of Software-aided analysis of language, with Mike Scott and P. Pérez-Paredes In the last 3 years she has been the head researcher in an European funded project. She has been a professional translator in the field of science and has taught several courses on Writing research papers for novice teachers in the University of Murcia.

Dr. Debra Westall has been a member of the teaching and research staff at the Department of Applied Lin guistics (Universitat Politècnica de València) (UPV) since 1996 and is Associate Professor of English for Specific Purposes. Her current research interests are language contact between American English and Peninsular Spanish, Spanish nutritional discourse and health reporting on childhood obesity. She is co-author of three books for learners of English for academic purposes. Her decade of experience as a linguistic consultant and scientific editor has also allowed her to explore how UPV researchers write for publication in high-impact journals.

Reunión del Consejo de Gobierno 13/03/2015

Orden del día

13 de marzo de 2015 a las 9:00 horas en primera convocatoria y media hora más tarde en segunda, en la Sala de Juntas del edificio Convalecencia, que se desarrollará conforme al siguiente

1. Aprobación, si procede, del acta de la sesión anterior, celebrada el día 6 de febrero de 2015.

2. Informe del Sr. Rector

3. Informe y ratificación, en su caso, de acuerdos adoptados en la Comisión Permanente de 20 de febrero de 2015.

4. Informe y aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes, Calidad e Igualdad:

4.1. Informe sobre costes derivados de la realización de fiestas patronales en los recintos de fiestas.

4.2. Modificación de las Normas para los Actos de Graduación.

5. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios de Gerencia:

5.3. Gastos plurianuales:

5.1. Modificación de la RPT de personal funcionario del PAS 01/15.

5.2. Propuesta de transferencias de crédito (expedientes 65/2015, 66/2015, 74/2015, 156/2015, 291/2015, 373/2015 y 382/2015).

5.3.1. Modificación del gasto plurianual para “Prórroga contrato de suministro de energía eléctrica de la Universidad de Murcia”

5.3.2. Gasto plurianual para “Asistencia a la docencia y el mantenimiento de las infraestructuras universitarias de la Granja Veterinaria”

5.3.3. Solicitud de autorización de gasto plurianual para iniciar expediente de contratación del proyecto Aulas y laboratorios de prácticas.

6. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Profesorado:

6.1. Sustituciones y bajas de profesorado para el curso 2014/2015.

6.2. Renovación miembros de la Comisión de Cambios de Área.

6.3. Comisiones de selección de profesorado contratado.

6.4. Solicitudes de permisos de Personal Docente.

7. Informe y aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Coordinación e Internacionalización.

– Informe final Campus Mare Nostrum y líneas de acción futuras.
– Presentación propuesta de potenciación del alumno visitante.
– Propuesta de normativa de doble titulación de grado y máster en el marco de programas de intercambio internacional.

8. Informe y aprobación, si procede, de Convenios:

8.1. Tramitados a través del Vicerrectorado de Investigación.

8.2. Tramitados a través de Secretaría General.

9. Aprobación, si procede, de modificación del Reglamento de régimen interno de las Facultades de Óptica y Optometría, Filosofía y Psicología.

10. Aprobación, si procede, de reconocimiento de créditos por actividades universitarias (CRAU) del artículo 10 del Reglamento vigente.

11. Ratificación, si procede, de los nombramientos del Director y Secretario del Servicio Externo de Ciencias Forenses.

12. Aprobación, si procede, de modificación de la normativa sobre cesión de espacios universitarios.

13. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Formación e Innovación:

13.1. Cursos de posgrado, cursos, congresos, jornadas y seminarios que se acogen al catálogo de precios públicos.

13.2. Cursos de posgrado, cursos, congresos, jornadas y seminarios que no se acogen a catálogo de precios públicos y propuesta de precios públicos.

13.3. Nuevo catálogo de precios públicos para las actividades de estudios propios.

13.4. Actividades de la Universidad Internacional de Mar.

14. Aprobación, si procede, de asuntos varios del Vicerrectorado de Planificación de Enseñanzas:

14.1. Propuesta de adscripción de asignaturas a áreas de conocimiento.

14.2. Corrección de criterios de acceso a Menciones de la Facultad de Educación

14.3. Propuesta de nuevos Programas de Doctorado interuniversitario:

14.3.1 Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Forenses.

14.3.2 Programa de Doctorado en Intervención Social, Mediación y otros Métodos Alternativos de Resolución de Conflictos.

15. Ruegos y preguntas.