[Corpora-List] Announcement: Corpus Linguistics Advanced Research Education and Training (CLARET)

[David Oakey]

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Call for Participants

Corpus Linguistics Advanced Research Education and Training (CLARET)

http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/claret/

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CLARET is a new national research training programme in corpus linguistics running in the UK from November 2007 to June 2008. It is open to doctoral students whose work involves the investigation of large amounts of electronically-stored language data. The programme aims to provide participants with:
 
*	a thorough understanding of the conceptualisation of the field;
*	knowledge and practical experience of different corpus linguistic research methodologies;
*	an increased awareness of the types of insights into language theory and use that can be gained from corpus data.

The programme consists of five two-day workshops given by leading researchers in the field. The following areas will be covered:

Conceptualisation of the field
*	The history of corpus linguistics: how different approaches have arisen
*	Operationalising research constructs: what can and cannot be found from a corpus

Methodology
*	Corpus design, construction, collection, preparation, encoding
*	Types of corpora: spoken, written, multi-modal, parallel, or diachronic
*	Modes of corpus annotation, e.g. syntactic, semantic, discoursal, generic
*	Corpus tools and software; practical "bring your own data" sessions
*	Computational approaches
*	Statistical approaches	

Insights into linguistic theory and language use from corpus data
*	Languages other than English
*	Translation
*	Language variation
*	Historical language
*	Lexicography
*	Text characteristics: e.g. keywords and stylistics
*	Genre/register: e.g. media, academic discourse, conversation
*	Phraseology: e.g. patterns, multi-word expressions, formulaic language 
*	Learner corpora and language teaching

Workshop schedule and titles:
November 2007: Liverpool, "Analysing Literary and Non-literary Text"
January 2008: Nottingham, "Spoken Corpus Analysis"
March 2008: Lancaster, "Corpus Compilation and Annotation"
May 2008: Birmingham, "Applications of Corpus Linguistics"
June 2008: Reading, "Web-based Corpus Tools"

Each CLARET workshop is limited to 30 participants, with priority given to AHRC-funded doctoral students. There is a small fee of £10 per workshop for participants from partner institutions, and £40 per workshop for participants from other institutions. A subsidy is available towards participants' UK travel and accommodation costs for each workshop. Applications for the first workshop will open in late September 2007. 

Workshop convenors:
Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham; Michaela Mahlberg, University of Liverpool; David Oakey, University of Birmingham; Paul Rayson, University of Lancaster; Paul Thompson, University of Reading

Application for the first workshop opens shortly. For more information go to:

http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/claret/

CLARET is a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham, Lancaster, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Reading and is funded by award 07/01/N under the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Collaborative Research Training Scheme.

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