Leeds Corpus Linguistics research seminars
A cross-campus forum to share interest in Corpus Linguistics, linking Leeds University research groups in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Management, Translation Studies, Linguistics and Phonetics, Modern Languages and Cultures, Language Education, English Language.
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Wednesday 28 November 2007
Salma Mansour and Jill Karlik (Centre for Translation Studies, Leeds University)
Getting Started with Research in Translation Studies
5:00pm, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, LG17
Friday 23 November 2007
Terttu Nevalainen (English Dept, Helsinki University)
Negative concord before 1800 - a sociolinguistic perspective
3:30-4:30pm, School of English, seminar room five
Friday 23 November 2007
Justin Washtell (School of Computing, Leeds University)
Exploring distance-based dispersion measures in natural language
10:00-11:00am, School of Computing, Active Learning Lab 9.30a
Wednesday 14 November 2007
Paul Foulkes (JP French Associates and University of York)
Speech crimes: an outline of forensic speech science
12:00-13:00pm, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
Baines Wing 3.06
Wednesday 7 November 2007
School of Computing Research AwayDay
Wednesday 31 October 2007
School of Computing, PhD Workshop; presentations to include:
4:30-4:45 Fangzhong Su
Computational Modelling of Word Sense Sentiment
4:45-5:00 Owen Nancarrow
A Comparative Study of the Tagging of Adverbs in Modern English Corpora
5:00-5:15 Claire Brierley
Corpus-based evaluation of prosodic phrase break prediction
1:00-5:15pm, School of Computing Staff Room
Friday 26 October 2007
Krishna Sridhar (School of Computing, Leeds University)
Unsupervised Learning from text and video corpus
10:00-11:00am, School of Computing, Active Learning Lab 9.30a
Monday 22 October 2007
Laura Cantora (Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds)
The Translation of Proper Names in Mass Market Womens Fiction
Jill Karlik (Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds)
Audience-design in interpreter-mediated Bible readings in a Gambian
Church
1:00-2:00pm, Room 134, Michael Sadler Building
Friday 19 October 2007
Eric Atwell (School of Computing, Leeds University)
Combining research and teaching in knowledge management
and corpus linguistics
[ppt]
10:00-11:00am, School of Computing, Active Learning Lab 9.30a
Friday 12 October 2007
Owen Nancarrow (School of Computing, Leeds University)
The tagging of adverbs in modern English corpora
10:00-11:00am, School of Computing, Active Learning Lab 9.30a
Friday 5 October 2007
Amal Al-Saif (School of Computing, Leeds University)
An introduction to Rhetorical Structure Theory
10:00-11:00am, School of Computing, Active Learning Lab 9.30a
Friday 27 July - Monday 30 July 2007
Corpus Linguistics 2007 conference, Birmingham University
Leeds Corpus Linguists converge on Birmingham!
http://www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/conference2007/
Friday 20 July 2007
Previews of talks to be presented at Corpus Linguistics 2007
10:00-11:00am, School of Computing, Active Learning Lab 9.30a
In the garden and in the jungle: comparing genres in the BNC and
Internet
by Serge Sharoff
Which English dominates the World Wide Web, British or American?
[slides]
by Eric Atwell, Junaid Arshad, Chien-Ming Lai, Lan Nim, Noushin Rezapour
Asheghi, Josiah Wang, and Justin Washtell
Fostering language learner autonomy via adaptive conversation
[slides]
by Bayan Abu Shawar and Eric Atwell
CHEAT: Combinatory Hybrid Elementary Analysis of Text
[slides]
by Eric Atwell and Andy Roberts
A cross-language methodology for corpus Part-of-Speech tag-set
development
[slides]
by Eric Atwell
Corpus-based Evaluation of Prosodic Phrase Break Prediction
[slides]
by Claire Brierley and Eric Atwell
A comparative study of the tagging of adverbs in modern English
corpora
[slides,
PDF-slides]
by Owen Nancarrow and Eric Atwell
20/07/07 10:00-11:00am, School of Computing Active Learning Lab 9.30a
Monday 18 June 2007
Previews of talks to be presented at forthcoming conferences
Martin Thomas (Leeds University, Centre for Translation Studies)
Querying multimodal annotation -- a concordancer for GeM
Bogdan Babych, Tony Hartley, Serge Sharoff
(Leeds University, Centre for Translation Studies)
Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer
Svitlana Kurella (Leeds University, Centre for Translation Studies)
Using conjunction for computer-assisted acquisition of reading
abilities in L3
Martin Thomas (Leeds University, Centre for Translation Studies)
The multimodal significance of the textual metafunction
11:45, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
B02 Michael Sadler Building
Tuesday 12 June 2007
Professor Clive Upton's Inaugural Lecture (Leeds University, School of
English)
'Does he smoke a pipe?' The imagined and the real of dialectology
5:30pm, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre
Friday 18 May 2007
Claire Brierley (Bolton University and Leeds
University, School of Computing)
Allowing for prosodic variation in evaluation against a gold standard
reference corpus
13:00-14:00, School of Computing, Active Learning Lab 9.30a
Tuesday 15 May 2007
John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong)
Writing for scholarly publication in English in Hong Kong and China: some
reflections on an ongoing research project
http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/research/language/seminars.php
13:00-14:00, School of Education BT 1.17
Friday 4 May 2007
Aston Corpus Symposium
Leeds Corpus Linguists' day trip to Aston University, Birmingham
http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/symposium/symposium.html
depart 07:00am from Leeds railway station