[Corpora-List] TWC Course October 2006

[John Sinclair]

THE TUSCAN WORD CENTRE

SPECIAL AND VARIED CORPORA

27th – 31st October 2006; Certosa di Pontignano, Tuscany.


How do you make a corpus for a specific need?
  How large does it need to be?
    Where do you find the texts?
     How do you know if a text will suit your corpus?
      What software can you use?
       How do you ask the right questions?
        How do you interpret the results?

If these matters are on your mind, find out more about this short intensive 
course run by The Tuscan Word Centre.  As with all TWC courses, it deals 
with current issues in corpus study, but this course has a special focus on 
specialised corpora rather than general ones.

The course is organised by TWC under the auspices of the University of 
Siena, and will take place in a beautiful ex-Cistercian monastery in the 
Tuscan hills near Siena.

TWC has assembled an international team of scholars who have major 
achievements in building and studying different kinds of corpus; they will 
focus on special and specialised varieties of both spoken and written corpora:

Prof. Winnie Cheng, PolyUniversity of Hong Kong
Mr. Chris Greaves, Language Software Consultant
Dr. Ann O’Keefe, University of Limerick
Dr. Ute Römer, University of Hannover
Prof. John Sinclair, Tuscan Word Centre
Prof. Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Siena
Prof. Martin Warren, PolyUniversity of Hong Kong

The course will tackle theoretical issues ranging from corpus design to the 
implications for linguistic theory of corpus evidence; also practical 
matters such as how to identify what a document is about, and to classify 
it on that basis.  Talks and discussions will alternate with practical, 
hands-on sessions, and demonstrations of some radically new software for 
corpus analysis.

More details of the course will shortly be posted on http://www.twc.it
We try to keep TWC Courses small, so please reserve a place as promptly as 
possible.

The overall cost this year is 1400 euros. This is a comprehensive charge 
which includes tuition and participation fees, premises and facilities, 
accommodation and all meals (except Sunday lunch). Because of careful 
budgeting, we are able to reduce the price by a hundred euros from the same 
kind of course last year.

All enquiries to John Sinclair, jms at twc.it. There is no application form.
John Sinclair
President
The Tuscan Word Centre

Address for correspondence:
Via Pandolfini 27, 50122 Florence, Italy

Telephone and fax: +39 055 295470

web page <www.twc.it>