[Corpora-List] Workshop Web-based Corpora and Lexicology

[Roland Meyer]

The internet is increasingly being used as a source of linguistic information, both as data for linguistics proper and for numerous applications in information science. The Department of Information Science/Media Informatics and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Regensburg University/Germany are pleased to announce a workshop on "Web-based Corpora and Lexicology", featuring presentations on the construction, annotation, and use of large, uncontrolled corpora, in order to provide a basis for a discussion of their potential benefits in various scientific domains.

Workshop "Web-based Corpora and Lexicology"

Regensburg University
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
HS 5, Central Lecture Hall
http://www.medieninformatik.it

Programme:
09.30 Welcome Address by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh, Dean, Philosophical Faculty IV, Regensburg University
09.45 Adam Kilgarriff, Lexicography MasterClass Ltd: "Googleology is Bad Science"
10.30 Christian Wolff, Regensburg University: "Corpus Comparison and Time Series Analysis"
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30 Jürgen Reischer, Regensburg University: "Information Mining in WordNet"
12.15 Alexander Mehler, Bielefeld University: "Automatic Classification of Hypertext Graphs. Toward a Structural Model of Webgenres"
13.00 Lunch Break
14.00 Serge Sharoff, Leeds University: "Turning the Web into the BNC: collecting and using Internet corpora"
14.45 Uwe Quasthoff, Leipzig University: "The production process of the Leipzig Corpora Collection"
15.30 Coffee Break
15.45 Adam Przepiórkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences: "Shallow Analysis for the Syntactic Annotation of a Large Polish Corpus"
16.30 Christian Biemann, Leipzig University: "Unsupervised POS-Tagging"
17.15 Closing Statement

We cordially invite students and researchers working on the above topics to join and discuss.

Sincerely,
Dr. Roland Meyer and Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff, Regensburg University