[Corpora-List] Workshop announcement: New developments in software tools for corpus construction and analysis (26 April 2012)

[silvia bernardini]

**apologies for cross-postings**


WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

New developments in software tools for corpus construction and analysis


MOTIVATION

Those who use corpora for research, for learning and teaching languages, 
and for reference in their daily work, are well aware of the crucial 
(and sometimes frustrating) role played by software. One can spend a 
long time designing and compiling the perfect corpus, and yet  be unable 
to make the best of it unless appropriate software is available for 
searching the corpus, exploiting the annotation and displaying results 
in a user-friendly way.

In this workshop several software tools are presented that we believe 
are of particular relevance to corpus work for translation and 
interpreting research, learning/teaching and practice. The guest 
speakers are rare examples of technically minded researchers who are not 
only interested in the inner workings of (their) software, but also in 
the way humans use that software for real purposes. The workshop will 
thus also provide a forum for taking stock of recent advances in the use 
of corpus-related software tools, as well as for addressing novel issues.


PROGRAMME

14:30-15.15 Pavel Vondricka (Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech 
Republic): InterText in the context of the InterCorp project

15:15-16:00 José Manuel Martínez Martínez (Universität des Saarlandes, 
Saarbrücken, Germany / ECPC Research Group): ECPC: the story of building 
a comparable and parallel corpus from A to...InterText

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:15 Nino Luz (Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland): modnlp-TEC

17:15-18:00 Eros Zanchetta (Università di Bologna in Forlì, Italy): 
Carcass: an open-source tool for querying large text corpora


REGISTRATION

While there is no attendance/registration fee, the conference venue has 
limited capacity, and seats will be reserved on a first-come, 
first-served basis. Please write to Federico Gaspari 
(fgaspari at sslmit.unibo.it) if you would like to book a seat.


ORGANIZERS

Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna
Federico Zanettin, University of Perugia


VENUE

Sala Affrescata Dipartimento SITLeC, Corso Diaz 64, Forlì


DATE & TIME

Thursday 26 April 2012, from 2.30 to 6 p.m.

FURTHER INFORMATION: 
http://www.disitlec.unibo.it/SITLEC/Bacheca/Eventi/2012/04/EventoDel26Marzo2012.htm 


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