[Corpora-List] Boot camp for corpus linguistics?

[Williams]

Dear Shekhar,

Can't help with a boot camp, but the New Trends seminar would be a nice 
starting
point: http://www.ugr.es/local/newtrends/callpapers.php.

For reading lists, you are sure to get a large number of recommended 
books as
there are a number of different approaches about. However, my favourite
introduction is through John Sinclair's 1991 book.

Sinclair J. 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford : Oxford 
University
Press.
No one has more clearly described the problem of looking at language in an
inductive manner through corpora. I'd then recommend 'Trust the Text', a
collection of papers by John Sinclair (Routledge 2004).

Other stimulating reads include:

Tognini Bonelli E. 2001. Corpus Linguistics at Work. Benjamins.
Kennedy G. 1998. An introduction to corpus linguistics. Longman
Hunston S. 2002. Corpora  in Applied Linguistics. CUP.
Sampson G. & McCarthy D. eds. 2004. Corpus linguistics: readings in a 
widening
discipline. Continuum.

That ought to get you off to a good start. You could then go to the Corpus
Linguistics conference in Birmingham to meet people.

Hope this helps

Best

Geoffrey

Surlignage Shekhar Pradhan <Shekhar.Pradhan at marist.edu>:

>  Although I have a strong background in computer science and pretty good
>  background in linguistics, statistical methods, machine learning, 
etc., I am
>  new to the field of corpus linguistics. Are there any kind of summer
>  institutes for introducing newbies to this field? Also, can anyone 
recommend
>  a good introductory book to this field and a site which gives an annotated
>  list of all the tools available in this field? Thanks in
>  advance.<br><br>Shekhar Pradhan<br>Computer Science, marist College<br>
>


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Geoffrey Williams, MSc, PhD
Professeur en sciences du langage
Directeur du département d'ingénierie du document
Université de Bretagne Sud - Faculté LSHS
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