[Corpora-List] TWC COURSE JUNE 2005

[John Sinclair]

The Tuscan Word Centre

THE CASE FOR A CORPUS:
SPOKEN AND WRITTEN CORPORA

June 25th–  29th 2005, Pontignano

This is a normal TWC four-day intensive course,
(from midday Saturday to midday Wednesday)
of the kind established by TWC some years ago.
Leading experts with experience in the design and
construction of spoken corpora in several languages
teach how to do it, and outstanding figures in written
and virtual corpus design and management do the same
for the written form of the language.  Statistical methods
for the analysis of corpus frequency data and their
implications for corpus design are explained and discussed.
The course is relevant for anyone using a corpus in their
research or their job, and provides a thorough and up-to-date
picture of corpus work and its theoretical foundations.
As usual with TWC, there will be regular practical sessions
to follow up the presentations.

TWC events are back in Tuscany after a year of being
hosted abroad, and take place in a new and beautiful venue
near Siena.  We are pleased to say that we are able to offer
this enhanced location at no extra cost – our fees have been
unchanged for several years now.

For details, see <http://www.twc.it/>www.twc.it   For registration contact me,
John Sinclair, <mailto:jms at twc.it>jms at twc.it
For another event that immediately follows this Course see
separate notice. Participants who register for both events
will be offered a discount on the total fee.

John Sinclair
President, The Tuscan Word Centre