37.2516, Summer Schools: International Summer School in Corpus Linguistics (Azerbaijan)

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Subject: 37.2516, Summer Schools: International Summer School in Corpus Linguistics (Azerbaijan)

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Date: 29-Jul-2026
From: Dr. Muhammad Imran [imran.muhammed at khazar.org]
Subject: International Summer School in Corpus Linguistics


International Summer School in Corpus Linguistics

Host Institution: Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Coordinating Institution: Lexdata
Website: https://khazar.org/en/announce/5071

Dates: 20-Aug-2026 - 25-Aug-2026
Location: Quba, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan

Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate
Special Qualifications: The program is open to students, researchers,
academics, and professionals interested in corpus linguistics,
academic writing, and publishing research in Humanities and Social
Sciences journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.

Focus: The summer school provides intensive practical training
centered around corpus tools, corpus analysis, and corpus building.
Throughout the course, participants will learn to understand the core
principles of corpus linguistics, utilize major corpus analysis tools,
design and construct specialized corpora, apply corpus methods to
linguistic and interdisciplinary research, and critically interpret
quantitative results.
The program follows a comprehensive five-day schedule:
Day 1 covers the Foundations of Corpus Linguistics.
Day 2 focuses on Corpus Compilation and Basic Analysis.
Day 3 addresses Corpus-Based Research.
Day 4 introduces Advanced Corpus Analysis.
Day 5 concentrates on Research Writing and Publication, which includes
writing a corpus-based research article, publishing in high-quality
Scopus and Web of Science journals, understanding publication ethics
and avoiding predatory journals, as well as participant presentations
and feedback sessions.
Description:
Khazar University is pleased to invite applications for the upcoming
International Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. This five-day
hands-on training program will take place from August 20 to August 25,
2026, at the Shahdag Quba & Truskavets Hotel. The program is tailored
specifically for international Master’s and PhD students, as well as
scholars and researchers in the fields of Language, Literature, and
Linguistics.
The summer school provides intensive practical training centered
around corpus tools, corpus analysis, and corpus building. Throughout
the course, participants will learn to understand the core principles
of corpus linguistics, utilize major corpus analysis tools, design and
construct specialized corpora, apply corpus methods to linguistic and
interdisciplinary research, and critically interpret quantitative
results.
The program follows a comprehensive five-day schedule:
Day 1 covers the Foundations of Corpus Linguistics.
Day 2 focuses on Corpus Compilation and Basic Analysis.
Day 3 addresses Corpus-Based Research.
Day 4 introduces Advanced Corpus Analysis.
Day 5 concentrates on Research Writing and Publication, which includes
writing a corpus-based research article, publishing in high-quality
Scopus and Web of Science journals, understanding publication ethics
and avoiding predatory journals, as well as participant presentations
and feedback sessions.
The workshop will be led by two expert trainers: Dr. Muhammad Afzaal
from the Institute of Language Sciences at Shanghai International
Studies University, China, and Dr. Muhammad Imran from the Educational
Research Lab at Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia, and Khazar
University, Azerbaijan.
The registration fee for the program is 500 USD. This fee covers five
nights of accommodation, local transportation on the Baku-Quba-Baku
route, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and daily coffee breaks. Upon
completion of the training, all participants will receive an official
Certificate of Completion issued by the Khazar Corpus Research Center.
The deadline for registration is August 10, 2026. Please note that
seats are filling up fast, so hurry to register! For registration,
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=D3GG74KPfkWx2iBWC_t5EfBmBmxAX81BnEvfM580MvdUNTZYRFRJMFVZS1ZFVkY5S1k3SFJKVFM1Vy4u&origin=QRCode
, For any queries write to Dr. Muhammad Imran, email:
imran.muhammed at khazar.org
Tuition: 500 USD
Tuition Explanation: The registration fee for the program is 500 USD.
This fee covers five nights of accommodation, local transportation on
the Baku-Quba-Baku route, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and daily
coffee breaks. Upon completion of the training, all participants will
receive an official Certificate of Completion issued by the Khazar
Corpus Research Center.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): English (eng, stan1293)

Registration Open until 10-Aug-2026

Contact Person: Dr. Muhammad Imran
                Email: imran.muhammed at khazar.org

Apply by Email: imran.muhammed at khazar.org
Apply on the web:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=D3GG74KPfkWx2iBWC_t5EfBmBmxAX81BnEvfM580MvdUNTZYRFRJMFVZS1ZFVkY5S1k3SFJKVFM1Vy4u&origin=QRCode




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