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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As Head of our International Corpus Linguistics Research Unit at UWE, Bristol, can I draw your attention to our conference next April. I'd be delighted to see some papers on using corpora to explore meaning.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies at the University of the West of England, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bristol</st1:City></st1:place> invites you to attend its first three day conference on </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Meaning and Interaction</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">i-Mean</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> will be held at the </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">University of the West of <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bristol</st1:City></st1:place></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> on </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">April, 23<SUP>rd</SUP>- 25<SUP>th</SUP> 2009.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The conference aims to disseminate cutting edge, multi-disciplinary, research in the area of meaning in interaction. It is unique in bringing together scholars working on meaning in interaction and others working on the impact of interaction on language structure. The two constituencies share an interest in the manner in which meaning is co-constructed and negotiated between interactants, thus leading to a form/function reconfiguration. The complexities of the interpretation of meaning can be more acute in intercultural encounters. The conference thus extends its scope to include the relatively new sub-discipline of intercultural pragmatics. It is timely in reflecting a rising interest, across a number of fields, in issues in interpreting meaning.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are pleased to announce <BR><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Professor <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Janet Holmes</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Nottingham</st1:PlaceName> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Trent</st1:City></st1:place>,</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Papers are invited which draw on empirical data to elucidate the relationship between function and form, as it is played out in interactions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The conference covers but is not limited to the following key topics:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Abstracts of no more than </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">250 words</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (max and including references, if necessary) are invited. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is the </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">05<SUP>th</SUP> January 2009</SPAN></U></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. Abstracts should not include the name and affiliation of the author(s). Further details and a submission form will be published on the i-Mean website soon and details will be circulated. Abstracts should be sent to <A href="mailto:imean@uwe.ac.uk"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">imean@uwe.ac.uk</SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please note that no late submissions will be accepted and all submissions will be peer-reviewed. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Authors will be notified of acceptance by </SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">02 February 2009</SPAN></U></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=DE style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE">Dr Jo Angouri (</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="mailto:Jo.Angouri@uwe.ac.uk"><SPAN lang=DE style="mso-ansi-language: DE">Jo.Angouri@uwe.ac.uk</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=DE style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE">), Dr Kate Beeching (<A href="mailto:Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk">Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk</A> )<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV RE><FONT size=2>Dr. Kate Beeching, Reader, Linguistics and French </FONT></DIV>
<DIV RE><FONT size=2>Award Leader, MA in Translation by Distance Learning </FONT></DIV>
<DIV RE><FONT size=2>Head, International Corpus Linguistics Research Unit (ICLRU) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV RE><FONT size=2>Field Leader, Languages</FONT></DIV>
<DIV RE><FONT size=2>University of the West of England, Bristol </FONT></DIV>
<DIV RE><FONT size=2>Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> corpora-bounces@uib.no on behalf of Norton Roman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 10/1/2008 11:10 AM<BR><B>To:</B> CORPORA@UIB.NO<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Corpora-List] kappas<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>there's also Krippendorff's alpha, which corrects for some biases in cohen's kappa (it can also be used with multiple coders and missing data):<BR><BR><A href="http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/dogs.html">http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/dogs.html</A><BR><BR>cheers<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2008/10/1 Francis Tyers <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:ftyers@prompsit.com">ftyers@prompsit.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">El mié, 01-10-2008 a las 11:35 +0200, Steen, G.J. escribió:<BR>> Dear all,<BR>><BR>> one way to measure inter-coder reliability is Cohen's kappa. But this<BR>> can only be applied to pairs of raters, at least in the standard use.<BR>><BR>> One solution to the problem of having more than two coders is to<BR>> average Cohen's kappas across all possible pairs of raters, but I am<BR>> not sure how this is looked upon in the testing community.<BR>><BR>> Another solution to this problem appears to be Fleiss' kappa, which<BR>> can accommodate more raters in one reliability analysis. What sort of<BR>> experience do you have with this statistic? And are there any software<BR>> packages that include it (since SPSS does not seem to have it)?<BR>><BR>> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.<BR><BR>There are Java and Python implementations of Fleiss' kappa on Wikibooks:<BR><BR><A href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_implementation/Statistics/Fleiss%27_kappa" target=_blank>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_implementation/Statistics/Fleiss%<BR>27_kappa</A><BR><BR>There are some other statistics outlined on Wikipedia (which I suppose<BR>you've already seen):<BR><BR><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrater_reliability" target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrater_reliability</A><BR><BR>The choice of statistic largely depends on the experiment.<BR><BR>Fran<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Corpora mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</A><BR><A href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora" target=_blank>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV>
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