33.724, Summer Schools: Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2022 / Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-724. Thu Feb 24 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.724, Summer Schools:  Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2022 / Online

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:30:04
From: Akira Murakami [clsummerschool at contacts.bham.ac.uk]
Subject: Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2022 / Online

 

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2022

Host Institution: University of Birmingham
Website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2022/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2022.aspx

Dates: 04-Jul-2022 - 07-Jul-2022
Location: Online, Online, United Kingdom

Focus: Programme:
Our Corpus Linguistics Summer School aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both theory and practice of corpus-based linguistic research. Over the course of four days, participants will be actively involved in two kinds of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will put the emphasis on the learning of practical skills for the purpose of extracting and analysing corpus data of various kinds, and the application of this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research from our team.

Topics of sessions will include (non-exhaustively):
- Corpus linguistics for media analysis
- Analysis of spoken corpora
- CQPweb
- Introduction to R and tidyverse
- Web scraping with R
- Corpus linguistics, digital humanities and the study of fiction
- Sign language corpora
- Corpora and legal research
- Critical issues in keyness analysis
- Behavioral Profile
- Machine learning in corpus linguistics
- Corpus-based discourse analysis
- Corpus linguistics and language learning
- Regular expression
- Corpus annotation and analysis with the UAM corpus tool
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum


Description:
The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to
announce that our Corpus Linguistics Summer School will take place fully
online this year on 4-7July, 2022.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/
2022/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2022.aspx

Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-served basis upon completion
of the registration process (including payment) through the university’s
online shop linked from the above website.

Speakers:
This year, our participants will have the pleasure to hear contributions by
Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney), Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City
University), Matt Gee (Birmingham City University), and Robbie Love (Aston
University), as well as members of our local staff of corpus linguistics,
including Dagmar Divjak, Matteo Fuoli, Jason Grafmiller, Jack Grieve, Nicholas
Groom, Susan Hunston, Michaela Mahlberg, Virginia Mattioli, Karen McAuliffe,
Petar Milin, Akira Murakami, Florent Perek, Laurence Romain, Adam Schembri,
Paul Thompson, Viola Wiegand, and Bodo Winter, among others. 

Monika Bednarek will be delivering the annual Sinclair Lecture on Monday, 4
July.


Tuition: 80 GBP

Registration: 24-Feb-2022 to 04-Jun-2022

Contact Person: Akira Murakami
                Email: clsummerschool at contacts.bham.ac.uk


Registration Instructions:
Please register using our online shop linked from the website. We will close
registration when it reaches the maximum number of participants we can
accommodate in our programme of activities.

Registration fee: £80




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