<div dir="ltr"><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">Workshop on
the compilation and analysis of diachronic corpora</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">University
of Athens, 28 June 2013</span></p>
<p class=""><a href="http://en.greekcorpus20.phil.uoa.gr/"><span lang="EN-GB">http://en.greekcorpus20.phil.uoa.gr/</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class=""><span lang="EN-GB">The
Department of Linguistics, University of Athens, is organizing a day workshop
on the compilation and analysis of diachronic corpora at the Central Building (
“Alkis Argyriadis” Conference Hall) on Friday, 28 June 2013. The programme of
the workshop includes:</span></p>
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<p class="">10:00 Welcome talk by Eleni Panaretou, Head of the
Department of Linguistics, and presentation of the workshop</p>
<p class="">10:30-11:00 Susan M. Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield):
Questions of representativeness and the challenge of diachronic corpus building11:00-11:30 Terttu Nevalainen (VARIENG, University of
Helsinki): Representativeness and comparability of historical corpora: The
Helsinki experience</p>
<p class="">11:30-12:00 Coffee break<br></p>
<p class="">12:00-12:30 Sean Wallis (Survey of English Usage, University
College London): The "London Corpora" projects: Lessons for
diachronic corpus design<br></p><p class="">12:30-13:00 Mark Davies (Brigham Young University): Looking
at a wide range of linguistic changes with the 400 million word Corpus of
Historical American English (1810-2009)<br></p>
<p class=""> 13:00-13:30 Dionysis Goutsos (University of Athens): The
Diachronic Corpus of Greek of the 20th century (Greek Corpus 20): Issues of
design and compilation</p>
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<p class="">The workshop is organized in the frame of the project “Diachronic
corpus of Greek of the 20th century (Greek Corpus 20)”, co-funded by the European
Social Fund and Greece (Research Project “Aristeia”).</p></div>