Corpora: MPhil in Corpus Linguistics

[Anna Cermakova]

MPhil in Corpus Linguistics

At the
Centre for Corpus Linguistics
www.ccl.bham.ac.uk
University of Birmingham

Machine-aided translation, information extraction and knowledge
management are the prime challenges in the booming market of Information
Technology. Corpus linguistics offers a fresh approach to the core issue
of semantics that overcomes the inherent shortcomings of traditional
language engineering. It will spawn a new generation of corpus-driven
monolingual and bilingual dictionaries as well as multilingual
translation bases. Corpus linguistics also provides a sound methodology
for critical discourse analysis, thus linking language studies to social
studies. More recently, corpus linguistics has been welcomed by language
teachers because of the help it provides in understanding one's own and
other languages and its superiority to traditional language teaching
methods.

The University of Birmingham was the home of the pioneering COBUILD
project, producing the first corpus-based dictionary for general
purposes. Today, the Centre for Corpus Linguistics has established
itself as one of the leading institutions studying language on the basis
of real language data. It provides an unparalleled array of monolingual
and multilingual language resources and tools (including the 450 million
word Bank of English), is involved in cutting edge language technology
projects and is the hub of an international community of corpus experts.

Our MPhil programme combines the benefits of a taught MA and a research
degree. It provides excellent research training for students who want to
upgrade to PhD.

More information is found at the website given above.

Enrolment: An on-line application form can be found at
http://www.bham.ac.uk/admissions/. Or contact:
Ms Sheila Brady
CELS
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
Bradysa at hhs.bham.ac.uk