10.1963, Confs: Corpus Linguistics / Modern Hebrew

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Subject: 10.1963, Confs: Corpus Linguistics / Modern Hebrew

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Date:  Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:24:58 +0200
From:  Uri Horesh <urihores at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:   Symposium: Corpus Linguistics / Modern Hebrew

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Date:  Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:24:58 +0200
From:  Uri Horesh <urihores at post.tau.ac.il>
Subject:   Symposium: Corpus Linguistics / Modern Hebrew

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM:
CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND THE STUDY OF MODERN HEBREW

EMORY UNIVERSITY
ATLANTA, GA

FEBRUARY 3-4, 2000



Thursday, February 3, 2000
==========================
The Joseph W: Jones Room, Woodruff Library

9:00-9:30 AM      Opening Addresses:
                  - Rebecca Chopp, Provost
                  - Gordon Newby, Chair, Middle Eastern Studies

Session 1: Methodology I
- ----------------------
9:30-10:30 AM     John Sinclair, The University of Birmingham, England
                  and the Tuscan Word Center, Italy
                  - Corpus Linguistics: The State of the Art

10:30-11:10 AM    Jack Du Bois, The University of California, Santa Barbara
                  - The Corpus of Conversational American English

11:10-11:30 AM    Coffee Break

Session 2: Methodology II
- -----------------------
11:30 AM-12:10 PM Elena Tognini-Bonelli, The University of Lecce
                  and the Tuscan Word Center, Italy
                  - Corpus Linguistics and the Teaching of Languages

12:10-12:50 PM    Dominic Glennon, Cambridge University Press, England
                  - Computational Aspects

12:50-2:00 PM    Lunch break

Session 3: Other Corpora
- ----------------------
2:00-2:40 PM    Otto Jastrow, The University of Erlangen-Nuerenberg, Germany
                - The Corpus of Palestinian Arabic

2:40-3:20 PM    Debra Spitulnik, Emory University
                - Documenting Bemba Language Change (Zambia)
                  Through Corpus Linguistics

3:20-3:40 PM    Coffee Break

Session 4: Sociology and Statistics
- ---------------------------------
3:40-4:10 PM    Shlomo Izre'el, Tel Aviv University, Israel
                - The Emergence of Modern Hebrew

4:10-4:50 PM    Eliezer Ben Rafael, Tel Aviv University, Israel
                - Israel as a Multilingual Society

4:50-5:30 PM    Giora Rahav, Tel Aviv University, Israel
                - Sampling of Population and the
                  Formation of a Representative Corpus

5:30-5:50 PM    Respondent: Regina Werum, Emory University


The Faculty Dining Room, Dobbs University Center
Public Lecture:
- -------------
8:00-9:00 PM    John Sinclair, The University of Birmingham, England
                and the Tuscan Word Center, Italy
                - Lexical Grammar: A New and Revolutionary Look at Language

Friday, February 4, 2000
========================
Session 5: Modern Hebrew I
- ------------------------
9:00-9:40 AM     Yaakov Bentolila, Ben Gurion University, Israel
                 - Spoken Modern Hebrew across Generations

9:40-10:20 AM    Shmuel Bolozky, The University of Massachussetts, Amherst
                 - Phonological and Morphological Variation in Spoken Hebrew

10:20-11:00 AM   Geoffrey Khan, Cambridge University, England
                 - Modern Hebrew Syntax: The State of the Art

11:00-11:20 AM    Coffee Break

Session 6: Modern Hebrew II
- -------------------------
11:20 AM-12:00 PM Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University, Israel
                  and The University of California, Santa Barbara
                  - Why Would a Pragmatician Need a Corpus of Spoken Hebrew?

12:00-12:40 PM    Benjamin Hary, Emory University
                  & Shlomo Izre'el, Tel Aviv University, Israel
                  - Toward the Compilation of the Corpus of Spoken Hebrew

12:40-2:00 PM     Lunch break

Session 7: Discussion
- -------------------
2:00-3:00 PM    Demonstrations of Computer Programs:
                Jack Du Bois (The Santa Barbara Corpus);
                Dominic Glennon (CUP Corpus)

3:00-4:30 PM    Discussion of Programming and Other Technical Issues


For more information, please contact Professor Benjamin Hary
<bhary at learnlink.emory.edu> OR Professor Shlomo Izre'el
<izreel at post.tau.ac.il>.

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