the tuscan word centre
27th –
31st October 2006; Certosa di Pontignano, Tuscany.
How do you make a corpus for a specific need?
How large
does it need to be?
Where
do you find the texts?
How
do you know if a text will suit your corpus?
What
software can you use?
How
do you ask the right questions?
How
do you interpret the results?
If these matters are on your mind, find out more about
this short intensive course run by The Tuscan Word Centre. As with all TWC courses, it deals with
current issues in corpus study, but this course has a special focus on
specialised corpora rather than general ones.
The
course is organised by TWC under the auspices of the University of Siena, and
will take place in a beautiful ex-Cistercian monastery in the Tuscan hills near
Siena.
TWC
has assembled a team of scholars who have major achievements in building and
studying different kinds of corpus; they will focus on special and specialised
varieties of both spoken and written corpora:
Prof. Winnie Cheng, PolyUniversity of Hong Kong
Mr.
Chris Greaves, Language Software Consultant
Dr.
Ann O’Keefe, University of Limerick
Dr.
Ute Römer, University of Hannover
Prof.
John Sinclair, Tuscan Word Centre
Prof.
Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Siena
Prof.
Martin Warren, PolyUniversity of Hong Kong
The
course will tackle theoretical issues ranging from corpus design to the implications
for linguistic theory of corpus evidence; also practical matters such as how to
identify what a document is about, and to classify it on that basis. Talks and discussions will alternate with
practical, hands-on sessions, and demonstrations of some radically new software
for corpus analysis.
We
try to keep TWC Courses small, so please reserve a place as promptly as
possible.
All
enquiries to John Sinclair, jms@twc.it