| Day 0: Thursday 29th March | ||
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| 8:00 | Breakfast in Cartmel restaurant | |
| 9:00-1:00 |
2) (Morning) Corpus Linguistics, Ancient Languages, and Older Language Periods (North Spine Seminar Room 2) 3) (Morning) XML Markup Technologies for Working with Linguistic Data (B61 Linguistics Department) | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Morning coffee in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 2:00-6:00 |
1) (Full day) Corpus-Based & Processing Approaches to Figurative Language (North Spine Seminar Room 1)
4) (Afternoon) Using SARA to explore the BNC World Edition (B66 Linguistics Department) | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon tea in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 7:00 | Dinner in Cartmel restaurant | |
| Day 1: Friday 30th March | ||
| 8:00 | Breakfast in Cartmel restaurant | |
| 9:00-11:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 11:00-1:00 |
Introduction Robert Gaizauskas, Jonathan Foster, Yorick Wilks, John Arundel, Paul Clough, Scott Piao: The METER Corpus: A corpus for analysing journalistic text reuse Anne Abeillé, Lionel Clément, Alexandra Kinyon & François Toussenel: The TALANA annotated corpus for French : some experimental results | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 2:00-4:00 |
Julien Nioche & Benoît Habert: Using feature structures as a unifying representation format for corpora exploration Sylvie Porhiel: Linguistic expressions as a tool to extract information Hatem Ghorbel, Afzal Ballim, & Giovanni Coray: ROSETTA: Rhetorical and semantic environment for text alignment |
Przemyslaw Kaszubski: Tracing idiomaticity in learner language - the case of be Elke Teich & Silvia Hansen: Methods and techniques for a multi-level analysis of multilingual corpora Maeve Olohan: Spelling out the Optionals in Translation: A Corpus Study |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon tea in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 4:30-6:30 |
Katja Ploog: Syntactic change in abidjanee French Diana Hudson-Ettle, Tore Nilsson & Sabine Reich: Orality and noun phrase complexity: a corpus-based study of British and Kenyan writing in English Rhonwen Bowen: Nouns and Their Prepositional Phrase Complements in English | |
| 7:30-10:00 | Hotpot buffet, wine reception, and posters in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| Day 2: Saturday 31st March | ||
| 8:00 | Breakfast in Cartmel restaurant | |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Mark Sebba & Susan Dray: Is it Creole, is it English, is it valid? Developing and using a corpus of unstandardised written language Shereen Khoja, Roger Garside & Gerry Knowles: A Tagset for the Morphosyntactic Tagging of Arabic | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning coffee in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 11:00-1:00 |
Serge Verlinde & Thierry Selva: Corpus-based vs intuition-based lexicography. Defining a word list for a French learner's dictionary Hannah Kermes & Stefan Evert: Exploiting large corpora: A circular process of partial syntactic analysis, corpus query and extraction of lexicographic information Ted Briscoe: From dictionary to corpus to self organising dictionary: Learning valency associations in the face of variation and change |
Constantin Orasan: Patterns in scientific abstracts Richard Foley: Going out in style? Shall in EU legal English Jean-Yves Antoine & Jérôme Goulian: Word order variations and spoken man-machine dialogue in French : a corpus analysis on the ATIS domain |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 2:00-4:00 |
Doug Biber: Historical shifts in modification patterns with complex noun phrase structures: How long can you go without a verb? | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon tea in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 4:30-6:30 |
Jenny Thomas: Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of indirectness in political interviews | |
| 7:30 | Gala celebration for Geoffrey Leech at the Ashton Memorial in Williamson Park in Lancaster. Coaches pickup at 7.00pm University Underpass and return coming back at 10.30pm Car Park South Road. | |
| Day 3: Sunday 1st April | ||
| 8:00 | Breakfast in Cartmel restaurant | |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Kiril Simov, Gergana Popova & Petya Osenova: HPSG-based syntactic TreeBank of Bulgarian (BulTreeBank) Liesbeth Degand & Henk Pander Maat: Contrasting causal connectives on the Speaker Involvement Scale | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning coffee in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 11:00-1:00 |
Anselmo Peñas, Felisa Verdejo & Julio Gonzalo: Corpus-Based Terminology Extraction Applied to Information Access Martin Volk: Exploiting the WWW as a corpus to resolve PP attachment ambiguities Julia Lavid: Using bilingual corpora for the construction of contrastive generation grammars: issues and problems |
P-O Nilsson: Investigating characteristic lexical distributions and grammatical patterning in Swedish texts translated from English Cécile Frérot, Géraldine Rigou & Annik Lacombe: Phraseological approach to automatic terminology extraction from a bilingual aligned scientific corpus Steven Jones: Corpus Approaches to Antonymy |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Mike Pacey: APRIL project and WebCorp | |
| 2:30-4:00 |
Dawn Archer and Jonathan Culpeper: Sociopragmatic annotation: New directions and possibilities in Historical Corpus Linguistics Helena Raumolin-Brunberg: Temporal aspects of language change: what can we learn from the CEEC? | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon tea in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 4:30-6:30 |
Mirjam Sepesy Maucec & Zdravko Kacic: Language Model Adaptation For Highly-Inflected Slovenian Language In Comparison To English Language Stefan Evert & Anke Lüdeling: Measuring morphological productivity: Is automatic preprocessing sufficient? Simon Smith & Martin Russell: Determining query types for information access |
Claudia Claridge: Approaching Irony in Corpora Juana Marín-Arrese, Elena Martinez-Caro & Soledad Pérez de Ayala Becerril: A corpus study of impersonalization strategies in newspaper discourse in English & Spanish Martina Möllering: Pragmatic and discursive aspects of German modal particles: a corpus-based approach |
| 7:00 | Dinner in Cartmel restaurant | |
| Day 4: Monday 2nd April | ||
| 8:00 | Breakfast in Cartmel restaurant | |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Estelle Campione & Jean Véronis: Semi-automatic tagging of intonation in French spoken corpora Josef Schmied: Exploring the Chemnitz Internet Grammar: Examples of student use Cancelled: | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning coffee in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 11:00-1:00 |
Daniel Hardt: Comma Checking in Danish Yuliya Katsnelson & Charles Nicholas: Identifying Parallel Corpora Using Latent Semantic Indexing David Hardcastle: Using the BNC to produce dialectic cryptic crossword clues |
Maarten Lemmens: Tracing referent location in oral picture descriptions Karen Wu Rongquan: Public Discourse as the mirror of ideological change: A keyword study of editorials in People's Daily Beom-mo Kang & Hung-gyu Kim: Variation across Korean Text Registers |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 2:00-4:00 |
Antoinette Renouf: The Web as a Source of Linguistic Information Hans-Jörg Schmid: Do women and men really live in different cultures? Evidence from the BNC Karin Aijmer: Discourse particles in contrast | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon tea in Conference Centre MR2 | |
| 4:30-6:30 |
Ylva Berglund & Oliver Mason: "But this formula doesn't mean anything!" - some reflections on parameters of texts and their significance Pascual Cantos-Gomez: An attempt to improve current collocation analysis Cancelled: |
Tamás Váradi: The Linguistic Relevance of Corpus Linguistics Eric Atwell & John Elliott: A Corpus for Interstellar Communication |
| 7:00 | Dinner in Cartmel restaurant | |