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<p><strong><b><font size=4 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>The third CLARET postgraduate workshop
on corpus compilation and annotation will take place at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
31 March – 1 April 2008.</span></font></b></strong><font size=2
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<p><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Corpus Linguistics Advanced Research
Education and Training (CLARET)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Call for participants<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></strong></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Deadline for applications:</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'> <strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>15th
February 2008 (please see below)</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>Workshop
details:</span></font></b></strong><br>
CLARET is a new national research training programme in corpus linguistics running
in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>
from November 2007 to June 2008. It is open to doctoral students whose work
involves the investigation of large amounts of electronically-stored language
data. CLARET is a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, <st1:City
w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:City>, Liverpool, Nottingham, and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Reading</st1:place></st1:City> and is funded by award 07/01/N under
the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Collaborative Research
Training Scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>The focus of the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:City></st1:place> workshop will be
on corpus compilation, modes of corpus annotation, statistical approaches to
corpus data and will address these issues for non-English and historical
corpora in addition to the traditional focus on modern corpora of English. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'>The workshop will take place on March 31st and
April 1st at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and will
consist of presentations, seminars and a hands-on session. <br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>Confirmed
speakers include: Geoffrey Leech, Costas Gabrielatos, Andrew Hardie, Tony
McEnery, Nick Smith, Andrew Wilson, Dawn Archer, Paul Rayson and Paul Baker.</span></font></b></strong>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Workshop Timetable:</span></font></b></strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>For a provisional timetable for this
workshop please visit the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:black'><a
href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/projects/claret/">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/projects/claret/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Contact Information:</span></font></b></strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black;font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Each CLARET workshop is limited to 30
participants, with priority given to AHRC-funded doctoral students. There is a
small fee of £10 per workshop for participants from partner institutions, and
£40 per workshop for participants from other institutions. A subsidy is
available towards participants' <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>
travel and accommodation costs for each workshop. In order to apply for a place,
please download an application form, complete it and email the result to Sarah
Brown (sarah@comp.lancs.ac.uk) at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> by 15th
February 2008. For an application form and further details please see the above
website with links to CLARET information. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dr. Paul Rayson<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Director of UCREL<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Computing Department, Infolab21, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street
w:st="on">South Drive</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:City></st1:address>
University, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:City>, <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">LA1 4WA</st1:PostalCode>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Web: <a
href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/"><font color=purple><span
style='color:purple'>http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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