[Corpora-List] Announcement: 5th CLARET postgraduate workshop, University of Reading, 27-28 June 2008

[Paul Thompson]

--Background--

CLARET (Corpus Linguistics Advanced Research Education and Training) is 
a 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 fifth CLARET postgraduate 
workshop on "Web-based corpus tools" will take place at the University 
of Reading, on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 June 2008.

--Theme of the workshop--

The Reading CLARET workshop (the fifth and final of the series) aims to 
give participants knowledge of a range of web-based tools for processing 
and querying corpora, and experience in handling a number of them. In 
addition to lecture sessions on web interfaces for corpora, on taggers 
and other corpus processing tools, there will be hands-on sessions where 
participants collect, process, upload and then query data, with guidance 
from the workshop leaders.

Presenters at the workshop will include: Paul Thompson, Pernilla 
Danielsson, Sebastian Hoffmann, Matt O'Donnell, Alois Heuboeck and 
Oliver Mason.

--How to apply--

Applications are invited from eligible participants. Each CLARET 
workshop is limited to 30 places, 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. For 
an application form please see 
http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/appling/claret.htm  The deadline for 
applications for the Reading workshop is Wednesday 28 May 2008. 

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.

If you have any queries, e-mail Paul Thompson at claret at paulslals.org.uk

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Dr Paul Thompson
School Director of Postgraduate Studies
Department of Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and European Studies
HumSS Building
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA, UK
Phone: +44 118 3786472
URL: www.reading.ac.uk/app_ling

Hon. Secretary of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
URL: www.baal.org.uk
Convenor, BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG
URL: corpus-sig-baal.org.uk/
Editorial Board member, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
URL: www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap
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