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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:08:54 GMT
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Courses at The Tuscan Word Centre 2002
The Tuscan Word Centre is a non-profit Association devoted
to promoting the scientific study of language. It lies
between Florence and Pisa, in a quiet location in the
Tuscan hills.
Further information is on the website
http://www.twc.it
When there is no event running at the Centre, the
accommodation is available to let under a scheme called
"Academics in Tuscany". Details at
http://www.twc.it/acatus/home.htm
There will be two short intensive courses in June 2002
17th-20th June HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK
24th-27th June HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
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HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK
17th-20th June inclusive (arrive 16th, depart 21st)
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TWC runs such a course every year; it is open to advanced
students and researchers, and workers in the language
industries, and it is relevant to all who are interested
in the present state of corpus work and the potential
for the future.
Topic Leaders:
Prof Göran Kjellmer, University of Gothenburg
Mr Frank Mueller, University of Tuebingen
Dr Pernilla Daniellson, University of Birmingham
Prof Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Lecce
Prof John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre
Topics include:
Syntax studies with annotated and unannotated corpora
Syntactic class differences as mirrored in corpora.
Corpora in a historical perspective
Functionally-complete Units in a contextual theory
of meaning
Corpus-based and corpus-driven linguistics
Shallow parsing:how it's done and what you can do with it
Linguistic data structures in language corpora
Software for corpus access and analysis
Annotation and corpus interrogation
Multilingual and parallel corpora
The lexical item
Lexicogrammar and Phraseology
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For further information about the course, about TWC,
its superb location and facilities, refer to the website
http://www.twc.it
or send an e-mail to mailto:[log in to unmask]
The overall cost of this course, including participation,
accommodation,
all meals and local transport is 1500 euros.
There is a strict limit on the number of places,
so please apply early.
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HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
24th-27th June inclusive (arrive 23rd, depart 28th)
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The Tuscan Word Centre
Intensive Course June 17th-20th 2002 inclusive
Corpora are already an important source of ideas, models,
examples and descriptions for language teaching, and will
gradually affect the work of all the teachers, and the
managers, researchers and materials developers in the
language teaching industry. Language teachers and their
colleagues should be aware of the range of activities that
are taking place all over the world, should be in command
of the routines of access to corpora and the retrieval of
useful results, and should be able to plan uses of corpora
in their own practice and in their own institutions.
A very successful course on this theme was held at TWC in
October 2001, and a book will shortly be published recording
the main presentations that were made.
Topic Leaders:
Prof. Sylviane Granger, University of Louvain
Dr. Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham
Dott.ssa Silvia Bernardini, University of Forlě
Dr. Pernilla Danielsson, University of Birmingham
Prof.ssa Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Lecce
Prof. John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre
Topics include:
Learner Corpora: design, analysis and applications
Annotation, part-of-speech tagging and error tagging
Pedagogical and NLP applications
The use of corpus evidence
Phraseology, pattern, and meaning
Corpus evidence applied to a text
Paradigm and syntagm in language
Technology serves pedagogic needs?
Corpora in the classroom:
- in the acquisition of new languages
- in the training of translators
data-driven learning
meaning-focused learning tasks
Corpus, text and discourse in LSP
Discourse of subject areas:
Monolingual - economics
Bilingual - tourism.
Software for corpus access and analysis
Parallel corpora
Annotation, phrase building
Text-oriented programming
New priorities in theory
Facts and observation
The sheltered classroom and the big wide world
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For further information about the course, about TWC,
its superb location and facilities, refer to the website
http://www.twc.it
or send an e-mail to mailto:[log in to unmask]
The overall cost of this course, including participation,
accommodation,
all meals and local transport is 1500 euros.
There is a strict limit on the number of places,
so please apply early.
Dr Susan Hunston
CELS
Westmere
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Phone: 0121 414 6208/5696
Fax: 0121 414 3298
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University of Exeter
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