Category: corpus linguistics

My top 10 impromptu reading list on corpus-based research

One of my RSLE students asked me if I could provide her with a reading list on corpus based research. Her interests are within teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The list is for obvious reasons far from comprehensive. I’ve decided to choose those resources I’ve used in the past and which I have found of interest in my learning and research. I’ll keep this list simple and so I’ve just included 10 references. So here it is.

 

Introductions to Corpus Linguistics

McEnery, T., & Hardie, A. (2011). Corpus linguistics: Method, theory and practice. Cambridge University Press.

Sinclair, J. (1991). Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Corpus linguistics and linguistic research

Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Corpus linguistics and language teaching

Aijmer, K. (Ed.). (2009). Corpora and language teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

O’Keefe, A., McCarthy, M., & Carter, R. (2007). From corpus to classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sinclair, J. M. (Ed.). (2004). How to use corpora in language teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis

Baker, P. (2006). Using corpora in discourse analysis. London: Continuum.

Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C., Khosravinik, M., Krzyżanowski, M., McEnery, T., & Wodak, R. (2008). A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press. Discourse & Society, 19(3), 273-306.

Chinese corpus-based linguistic research

Xiao, R., & McEnery, T. (2004). Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

Learner language research

Granger, S. Gilquin, G.  & Meunier, f. (eds). (2015) The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

#CFP Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology Nov 2017 London

 

International Conference Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology€. Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches.

London, 13-14 November 2017

Conference topics

The forthcoming international conference ‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology: recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches will take place in London on 13 and 14 November, 2017.

The conference will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to phraseology and will invite submissions on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to: corpus-based, psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches to the study of phraseology, the computational treatment of multi-word expressions, and practical applications in translation, lexicography and language learning , teaching and assessment.

Submissions and publication

Submissions will be full-length papers not exceeding seven pages; each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. The first call for papers will provide details on the submission procedure and on the conference schedule, including submission and notification deadlines.

It is our intention to have the proceedings published as a volume and also in the form of e-proceedings which will be available at the conference.

Programme Committee

The Programme Committee features experts in different aspects of corpus-based and computational phraseology and includes:

Nicoletta Calzolari, Institute for Computational Linguistics
Jean-Pierre Colson, Université catholique de Louvain
Gloria Corpas, University of Malaga
Dimitrij Dobrovolskij, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Language Institute
Thierry Fontenelle, Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Cyprus
Patrick Hanks, University of Wolverhampton
Ulrich Heid, University of Hildesheim
Miloš Jakubíček, Sketch Engine
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin
Simon Krek, University of Ljubljana
Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, University of Alicante
Johanna Monti, University of Sassari
Sara Moze, University of Wolverhampton
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Michael Oakes, University of Wolverhampton
Magali Paquot, Université catholique de Louvain
Carlos Ramisch, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille
Violeta Seretan, University of Geneva
Yvonne Skalban, University of Wolverhampton
Kathrin Steyer, Institute of German language
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Michael Zock, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille

Conference Chair

The conference Chair is Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton.

Organisation and sponsors

The forthcoming international conference €˜Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology €“ Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches€™ is jointly organised by the European Association for Phraseology EUROPHRAS, the University of Wolverhampton (Research Institute of Information and Language Processing) and the Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics.

Europhras and the Sketch Engine are the official sponsors of the conference.

Further information and contact details

The first call for papers is expected in January 2017 and registration will be open as from April 2017.

The conference website (http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/europhras2017/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email europhras2017@wlv.ac.uk.

 

1Register now! 4th Corpus Linguistics in the South 04/03/2017 Birkbeck Uni

 

The 14th meeting of Corpus Linguistics in the South will be held on Saturday March 4, 2017 at Birkbeck, University of London.

To register for this event, please send an email to Rachelle Vessey (r.vessey@bbk.ac.uk) and include the following details:
Name
Affiliation
Email address

Please also indicate if you would like to join in the group lunch, which will be at Byron (https://www.byronhamburgers.com/store-street/).

There are limited spaces available for this event and also limited availability for lunch. Registration and reservations for lunch will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis.

 

Practical information

In the tradition of all Corpus Linguistics in the South events, there will be no charge for participation or attendance. Coffee and refreshments will be provided and participants will be welcome to attend an optional lunch (cost approximately £15). Please note we do not have any funds from which to assist with transport or accommodation. Birkbeck, University of London is located in the heart of Bloomsbury and is easily accessible by public transportation. More details on our central London campus can be found here.

This event is being organised by Rachelle Vessey.

Graphic Online Language Diagnostic

 

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The Graphic Online Language Diagnostic (“GOLD”) is a corpus tool that allows language educators to submit and analyze language data. GOLD was developed by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (“CALPER”) at The Pennsylvania State University (“PSU”), University Park, PA, USA under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI, P229A060003 and P229A020010).

Link here: http://gold.gwserver1.net

4th Learner Corpus Research Conference, Bolzano, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017

4th Learner Corpus Research Conference
Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, 5‐7 October 2017

http://lcr2017.eurac.edu

Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair by Sunday 15 January 2017.

Notification of the outcome of the review process will be sent by 31 March 2017.

Call for Papers

Following the successful conferences in Louvain‐la‐Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, Bergen (Norway) in 2013 and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) in 2015, the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference will be hosted by the Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism at EURAC Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. The conference, organized under the aegis of the Learner Corpus Association, aims to be a showcase for the latest developments in the field and will feature full paper presentations, work in progress reports, poster presentations, software demos and a book exhibition.

The theme of LCR 2017 is “Widening the Scope of Learner Corpus Research”.

Conference Venue: European Academy Bozen/Bolzano – EURAC Research

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Philip Durrant (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri Perugia, Italy)
The keynote speakers will adress the theme of LCR 2017 in their respective lectures on L1 writing  development and Learner Corpus Research, quantitative methods in Learner Corpus Research, and Learner Corpus Research and Italian as L2. We welcome papers that address all aspects of Learner  Corpus Research, in particular the following ones:

* Corpora as pedagogical resources
* Corpus‐based transfer studies
* Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora
* English as a Lingua Franca
* Error detection and correction of learner language
* Extracting language features from learner corpora
* Innovative annotations in learner corpora
* Language for academic/specific purposes
* Learner varieties
* Learner corpora for less commonly taught languages
* Learner Corpus Research and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
* Learner Corpus Research and Natural Language Processing
* Links between Learner Corpus Research and other research methodologies (e.g. experimental methods)
* Search engines for learner corpora
* Statistical methods in learner corpus studies
* Task and learner variables

There will be four different categories of presentation:

* Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
* Work in Progress (WiP) report (10 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion)
* Corpus/software demonstration
* Poster
* The Work in Progress reports and posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback.

The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts
Your abstract should be between 600 and 700 words (excluding a list of references). Abstracts should  provide the following:
* clearly articulated research question(s) and its/their relevance;
* the most important details about research approach, data and methods;
* the main results and their interpretation.

Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcr2017) by Sunday 15 January 2017. Please follow instructions provided on the conference website (http://lcr2017.eurac.edu).
Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee. Notification of the outcome of  the review process will be sent by 31 March 2017.

The LCR 2017 organising committee
Andrea Abel (EURAC Research)
María Belén Díez‐Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Daniela Gasser (EURAC Research)
Aivars Glaznieks (EURAC Research)
Verena Lyding (EURAC Research)
Lionel Nicolas (EURAC Research)

The LCR 2017 scientific committee
Andrea Abel (EURAC Research)
Katherine Ackerley (Università degil Studi di Padova)
Annelie Ädel (Dalarna University)
Nicolas Ballier (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7)
María Belén Díez‐Bedmar (Universidad de Jaén)
Marcus Callies (Universität Bremen)
Erik Castello (Università degil Studi di Padova)
Francesca Coccetta (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia)
Pieter de Haan (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Hilde Hasselgård (Universitet i Oslo)
Sandra Deshors (New Mexico State University)
Ana Diaz‐Negrillo (Universidad de Granada)
Michael Flor (ETS)
John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong)
Lynne Flowerdew (independent researcher)
Fanny Forsberg Lundell (Stockholm University)
Gaëtanelle Gilquin (University of Louvain)
Sandra Götz (Justus Liebig Universität Gießen)
Solveig Granath (Karlstad University)
Sylviane Granger (Universtié catholique de Louvain)
Nicholas Groom (University of Birmingham)
Jirka Hana (Charles University Prague)
Shin’ichiro Ishikawa (Kobe University)
Jarmo Harri Jantunen (University of Jyväskylä)
Scott Jarvis (Ohio University)
Marie Källkvist (Lund University Sweden)
Agnieszka Lenko‐Szymanska (University of Warsaw)
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt‐Universität Berlin)
Carla Marello (Università degil Studi Torino)
Fanny Meunier (Universtié catholique de Louvain)
Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen)
Florence Myles (University of Essex)
Susan Nacey (Hedmark University College)
Lionel Nicolas (EURAC Research)
Michael O’Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (Universitetet i Oslo)
Magali Paquot (Universtié catholique de Louvain/FNRS)
Pascual Pérez‐Paredes (University of Cambridge)
Tom Rankin (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Paul Rayson (UCREL, Lancaster University)
Ute Römer (University of Michigan)
Anna Siyanova‐Chanturia (Victoria University of Wellington)
Jennifer Thewissen (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Nina Vyatkina (University of Kansas)
Heike Zinsmeister (Universität Hamburg)

For inquiries, contact Andrea Abel: Andrea . Abel @ eurac . edu

Corpus Pragmatics: new journal

 

Corpus pragmatics (Springer) is s platform for research and discussion in the linguistic discipline at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics.

A forum for research and discussion on the new linguistic discipline at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics.

Aims to enlarge and implement current pragmatic theories that have yet to benefit from empirical corpus support.

Offers original research papers, short research notes and occasional themed issues

This journal offers a forum for research and discussion in the new linguistic discipline that stands at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics. The contents include original research papers, short research notes, and occasional thematic issues.

Editor-in-Chief: Jesús Romero-Trillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Email: jesus.romero@uam.es