Convenor

Nick Groom

Website

corpus-sig-baal.org.uk

BAAL Corpus Linguistics Workshop

The BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG is very pleased to announce the following workshop event for Soring 2012:

Essential Statistics for Corpus Linguistics with R  14-17 March 2012 University of Birmingham.

The aims of this workshop are to provide a hands-on introduction to statistical methods relevant for corpus linguistic research, and at the same time to familiarise participants with the open source software and programming language R (http://www.r-project.org/). You should have some knowledge of basic concepts and methods in corpus linguistics, but no previous knowledge or experience of statistics or computer programming is required.  

The workshop will be held over 4 full days,  14th - 17th March 2012, and will be hosted at the Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham, UK (http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/index.aspx).

We are especially pleased to announce that the workshop will be taught by one of the world's leading authorities in this field, Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara (http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/).

The cost of the workshop is £150 for BAAL members, students and the unwaged, and £170 for non-BAAL members. (Please feel free to forward this message to any non-BAAL members whom you think might be interested in attending

Full details and an application form are available on request from the workshop organiser, Nicholas Groom <n.w.groom@bham.ac.uk>. Registration is now open, and is on a first-pay-first-served basis. The closing date for registrations is 31 January 2012, but please note that participant numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 18, so you are strongly advised to register early in order to guarantee your place.

We look forward to seeing you in Birmingham in March.

Nicholas Groom, Convenor, BAAL Corpus SIG

News

Dear colleagues

This is an update on BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG activities for our members. We have 66 members at the moment and would welcome meeting any new or existing members.

Webpages: Please visit our SIG webpages at corpus-sig-baal.org.uk. Our links page is under development and I would welcome any suggestions for corpus resources to add here. Any other suggestions or comments on the web pages would also be useful as they are there for you, our members.

Discussion list: Don't forget to use the discussion list to keep in contact with your fellow SIG members. Send any postings to baal-corpus-sig@lists.reading.ac.uk or you can join the list or review your membership details at: www.lists.rdg.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/baal-corpus-sig

Regards

Fiona Barker, Corpus Linguistics SIG Communications Secretary

Introduction to Dexter

Free tools for the coding and analysis of language data.

http://www.dextercoder.org/

11.00-5.00, 9th DECEMBER 2011

George Eliot Building, Coventry University

Our invited speaker is Gregory Garretson of the Department of English, Uppsala University. The event is intended to help researchers:

Attendance fee: £30 non BAAL members; £20 BAAL members; £15 students.

If you would like to attend, please register by November 18th.

Send your payment with the completed registration form to:

Hilary Nesi

Department of English and Languages

George Eliot Building,

Coventry University, CV1 5LW

Cheques should be made payable to ‘BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG’. If you cannot pay by cheque please email h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk to arrange payment on the day.

 

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