Category Archives: Corpora

International Conference for Learner Corpus Research LCR 2024 Tartu 26-28 September 2024 

Keynote speakers: 

    Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 
    Ilmari Ivaska (Turun Yliopisto, Finland) 
    Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada, Spain) 

Event Details: 

Date: 26-28 September 2024 
Location: Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures and the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics. University of Tartu, Estonia. 
Topics: Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:  
        Language for academic purposes  
        Language for specific purposes  
        Language teaching, assessment and testing  
        Learner corpus-based SLA studies  
        Corpora as pedagogical resources  
        Multimodal learner corpora  
        Software for learner corpus analysis  
        Corpus-based translation studies  
        English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)  
        English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)  
        Data mining and other explorative approaches to learner corpora  
        Statistical methods in learner corpus studies  
        Discourse analysis and pragmatics  
        Studies related to lexis: semantics, metaphor, etc.  
        NLP approaches  
        Complexity, accuracy and/or fluency (CAF) analysis  

Abstracts:  

A short summary of the intended presentation, capturing the central idea along with the research questions, methods of research and the (possibly tentative) key conclusions, also citing any relevant previous work or theoretical background of the field. Limited to 300 words, excluding keywords and references . Anonymous: the abstract itself should hold no reference to the author or their affiliation  

Further information is available at our webpage:https://lcr2024.ut.ee/main__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TUReXuBJrwvE8MwfDBbsYfDDv-8M-oqLj0P7oyev5SizIbp9MEDJtjrXsNNs5Xsv4AcNKfUqCXd0LcAsG_s$

Contact information: lcr2024@ut.ee

Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research 2022

We can now confirm the lineup for the forthcoming edition of Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research 2022. As in the previous 2021 edition, we are so lucky to have a fabulous group of scholars that will share their insights into the use of corpus linguistics methods in a range of applied linguistics research areas.

In this 2022 edition, the four talks will be given by:

Dr Gavin Brookes, University of Lancaster

Prof Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster

Prof Javier Pérez Guerra, University of Vigo

Dr Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex

Further details about dates and titles will be provided shortly.

This online event is organized by the Universidad de Murcia and the research group E020-07 (Lenguajes de especialidad, corpus lingüísticos y lingüística inglesa aplicada a la ingeniería del conocimiento).

Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) 2022 deadline has been extended to February 7th 2022

The Call for Papers deadline for Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) 2022 been extended to February 7th 2022

The TaLC 2022 conference will place 13th-16th July 2022 at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Plenary speakers: Michael McCarthy, Fanny Meunier, Shelley Staples and Henry Tyne

Links:

Call for Papers

Submission link for abstracts

Conference website

Conference registration opens on February 21st 2022

Aston University launches a video podcast on corpus linguistics

Dr Robbie Love speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about what corpus linguistics can do for society. The first season of CorpusCast features conversations with Profs Paul Baker, Elena Semino and our very own Pascual Pérez-Paredes.

Prof Baker’s interview will be out on January 5th. Here it is: