Seminario: “Let’s build a corpus! Some ideas on how to create your own corpus

Fecha: Viernes 9 mayo de 2014
Lugar: Sala de informática “Pragma”, servicio de informática CSIRC, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras(junto a reprografía).
Horario: 11:00-13:00 h.
Descripción: Seminario impartido por Michael Pace-Sigge (University of Eastern Finland).
This seminar will focus on the following issues:
- Types of corpora
- Corpus research basics
- Building your very own corpus
- An overview will be given of different types of corpora. There are small and large, general and specialist corpora. Corpora can represent language use that is hundreds of years old – or contemporary. There are collections of written texts, there are collections of spoken texts. We find there are different genres of written material – and, similarly, spoken sources represent different types of speech.
  A corpus can yield a lot of information – about learner behaviour, about language change, about discourse modes – and, indeed, about how language works. To make these visible, software can be applied to approach a collection of texts from a number of different angles. As part of this seminar, I shall look at creating spoken corpus material and work with a miniature corpus created from newspaper articles to provide case studies.
  Creating a corpus is a process that starts with the question of “What do you want to know?” and can end in a number of unexpected – hence interesting – ways. A concrete list of steps needed to be considered when creating a corpus will be presented, and the students will be given access points to retrieve a variety of different corpora that are freely available for their research.
- Información sobre la serie de seminarios: Este seminario se enmarca dentro de la serie de seminarios “Using corpora (and other software methodologies) to explore language”: This is a series of seminars to be delivered during 2014. Several experts from different universities will talk about the application of corpus linguistics and other sister methodologies to the study of language (mostly English although other languages will also be considered). Topics covered will be the use of software to analyse corpus data; the familiarisation and use of statistical measurement tests with corpus data; the way corpora can be help understand how people acquire a second language; the potential benefits of combining this approach with other disciplines such as (critical) discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, natural language processing, etc. These seminars are meant to be practical and hands-on so that participants can have a chance to use corpus software. The seminars are open to anyone with an interest in language, both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as UGR lecturers and researchers. It is also highly recommended for Master and PhD students working with (or intending to work with) language corpora.
Organiza: Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana, UGR.
Más información: Cristóbal Lozano, cristoballozano@ugr.es

Seminario: “Let’s build a corpus! Some ideas on how to create your own corpus – and why”

09 mayo 2014 | 09:00 - 11:00 h

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Seminario: “Let’s build a corpus! Some ideas on how to create your own corpus – and why”

09 mayo 2014 | 09:00 - 11:00 h

Actividades culturales y de divulgaciónConferencias, seminarios, divulgación científica

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Conferencias, seminarios, divulgación científica