Workshop
Assessing the potential of corpora
May 20, from 11.30 am
We have now finished accepting papers
(submission deadline passed March 15th)
The primary goal of this workshop is to convene users of corpora, from Poland and beyond, willing to exchange ideas and opinions on the feasibility and practicality of corpus-based methods in linguistic study, language teaching, and other applications.
Presentations will be of three types:
F – full papers (20 min. + 5 min. for questions)
S – shorter papers (15 min. + 5 min. for questions)
P – posters (1m x 1m – displayed on a special board in the workshop room + 5 min. recommendation talk in Session 2)
As detailed in the conference timetable, the workshop will feature one 120-minute and two 90-minute sessions, each of which will include 3-4 full and/or shorter papers. In addition, Session 1 will comprise poster recommendation talks, while Session 3 is planned to end with an open discussion addressing the workshop's major theme: The assessment of the potential of corpora.
Timetable for the workshop available here.
(Go to the conference timetable for details and abstracts of other sessions)
The accepted papers (in alphabetical order, with info on full/shorter/poster status).
(F) Damir Čavar (& Giancarlo Schrementi, Joshua Herring, Toshikazu Ikuta): On unsupervised grammar induction from untagged corpora
(P) Elżbieta Dura: Extracting current language use from the web
(F) Małgorzata Fabiszak: Studying metaphor with the BNC
(P) Przemysław Kaszubski: Web-based concordancing and EFL writing
(S) Maciej Machniewski: Corpus-based translation studies and the teaching of translation
(F) Mihail Mihailov: Translation pairs from parallel corpora
(P) Urszula Okulska: Historical corpora: Their applicability to (socio)linguistic and cultural research
(F) Adam Pawłowski: The 'Wrocław Corpus of Polish' Project
(F) Tadeusz Piotrowski: Corpus linguistics in MA courses: What’s wrong with teaching linguistics in Poland
(P) Mira Podhajecka: How to use the Web to make better translations
(F) Adam Przepiórkowski: Enhancing the potential of POS-tagged corpora with positional tagsets and ambiguities
(F) Włodzimierz Sobkowiak: Automatic phonetic annotation of corpora for EFL purposes
(F) Truus De Wilde: Corpora and norms: methodological problems
We plan to publish all contributions in a special edition of Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics.
Workshop participants are required to register for PLM2004 at on the Meeting's web page. Questions and requests can be addressed to the conference organisers.