[Corpora-List] CORLI

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Susan

do go for ICLIC - it's both cute AND has unimpeachable credentials as an
unforced acronym, so is likely to stick, AND you're eminently in a position
to do the christening, hosting ICLIC 2011 as you are!

Adam

On 14 February 2011 19:13, Susan Hunston <s.e.hunston at bham.ac.uk> wrote:

> I rather like CORLISS (CORpus LInguistics StudieS).
>
> Actually I also like ICLIC (International Corpus LInguistics Conference),
> but that sounds like an iphone app.
>
> Susan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
> Christer Johansson
> Sent: 14 February 2011 11:48
> To: corpora at uib.no
> Subject: [Corpora-List] CORLI
>
> CORLI sounds like an option.
>
>  From the net: Corly \c(o)-rly, cor-ly\ as a girl's name is a variant
> of Corliss (Old English),
> and the meaning of Corly is "carefree, cheery, benevolent".
>
> This would make CORLI a female mate to the COLING.
>
> \Christer
>
>
>
> Den 14. feb.. 2011 kl. 12.00 skrev corpora-request at uib.no:
>
> > Today's Topics:
> >
> >   1. Re:  CORPORA201: First Call for Papers (Adam Kilgarriff)
> >   2. Re:  corpus linguistics conferences 2011 (Angus B. Grieve-Smith)
> >   3.  corpus linguistics conferences 2011 (Antoinette Renouf)
> >   4.  International Workshop on Lexical Resources (WoLeR      2011) -
> >      Deadline extension (Benoît Sagot)
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:25:00 +0000
> > From: Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] CORPORA201: First Call for Papers
> > To: "Hardie, Andrew" <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>
> > Cc: corpora at uib.no
> >
> > It has struck me before, it would be handy for the CL20xx series to
> > have a
> > more distinctive name - saying "I heard it at Corpus Linguistics"
> > sounds
> > like a category-error (whereas "I heard it at COLING" is clearly
> > fine) and
> > the potential for confusion is high.  The initials CL are no help
> > for people
> > like me who straddle Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics.
> >
> > Any candidates?
> >
> > Adam
>
>
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