[Corpora-List] Do we still need language corpora?

[Martin Wynne]

Do we still need language corpora? Is the selection and preparation of 
the carefully crafted corpus a waste of time and money these days when 
large amounts of language data are freely available on the web?

If you are interested in this question then come along to a debate, 
organised by Martin Wynne and Ylva Berglund (Oxford) on the afternoon of 
June 1st 2011, and as a pre-conference event at the ICAME conference in 
Oslo.

More details are available at:

  http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/conferences/2011/icame2011/workshops.html

The session will be a formal debate, with two speakers for and two 
against the motion, with the opportunity for questions from the floor, 
and a summing up by the speakers, ending with a vote by the audience. 
The motion will be:

"Language corpora are no longer necessary for linguistic research."

All participants in the ICAME conference are warmly encouraged to come 
along and participate in what promises to be an entertaining and 
important debate on a key question confronting corpus linguistics today.

Time and place

The workshop will be held in the afternoon between 14.00 and 16.00 on 
Wednesday 1 June at the conference hotel and main venue, the Clarion 
Royal Christiania Hotel, located in Oslo city centre. After the 
workshop, the conference proper will start at 17.00 with the opening 
plenary by David Crystal in the Old Ceremonial Theatre of the University 
of Oslo (also in the city centre). Participants are required to register 
for the main conference, but attendance at the workshops is free. Please 
indicate on the registration form if you intend to attend the 
conference. The conference website is at:

  http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/conferences/2011/icame2011/index.html

Discussion of the proposition is also welcome on this list!

-- 
Martin Wynne
Research Technologies Service&
Oxford e-Research Centre

Oxford University Computing Services
7-19 Banbury Road
Oxford
UK - OX2 6NN
Tel: +44 1865 283299 or +44 1865 610677
Fax: +44 1865 273275
martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk


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