Course: A Practical Course In Using Computers For Language Analysis. (fwd)

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)947-9641 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:43:40 +0100 From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy <ramesh(a)cobuild.collins.co.uk> To: elsnet-list(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Course: A Practical Course In Using Computers For Language Analysis. Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 97 18:10:07 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.Stanford.EDU COMPUTERS AND TEXT: 4th-10th September 1997, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY. A PRACTICAL COURSE IN USING COMPUTERS FOR LANGUAGE ANALYSIS. Associated with the ESSE/4 conference, organized by the European Society for the Study of English. This is the second course of this type to be held in Debrecen (the first was in 1995). The planned course components include hands-on classes in the computer room as well as the sessions listed below. Further sessions may be added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. BELA HOLLOSY (LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN): 1. Available corpora and tools, corpus creation, lexical analysis, tokenization 2. String handling, text retrieval (collocations, etc), and basic programming 3. Working with Concordancers 4. Lexicographic model building B. RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY (COBUILD, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM): 1. History of corpora, and corpus design considerations 2. Lexis as a linguistic level: paradigms and syntagms 3. The relationship between Corpora and Dictionaries 4. Usage prototypes: collocation and syntactic patterns C. PATRICK HANKS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS): 1. `Enthusiasm' and `Condescension' - contrasting Historical (17-18th Century) and Modern corpora 2. The Individual in Time and Space - how everyday words such as `over' and `above' are used 3. Extremes of exploitation - `Finnegan's Wake' and the OED 4. Cognitive prototypes - what Speakers do and what Hearers believe --------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41. Email: rovnyf(a)tigris.klte.hu Website: http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course DEBRECEN INFORMATION: for travel, accommodation, food, etc, see: a) pp 79-80 of the European English Messenger, Volume V/2, Autumn 1996 b) the ESSE homepage: http://www.unil.ch/angl/docs/esse --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM --------------------- 1. YES,I want to take part in the course described above from 4th-10th September 1997, in Debrecen,Hungary. REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160 LATE REGISTRATION (after 30.6.97): US$ 325, UK pounds 200 2. I understand that it is a pre-condition to register with the ESSE/4 Conference as well. (Fill in BLOCK LETTERS, please, and send to the COURSE ORGANIZER): Title: Position/Institution: Surname: First name: Address: Country: Zip code: E-mail: Tel/fax: Date: Signature: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------