On March 31st and April 1st 2014, Prof. Geoffrey Leech visited our Institute and gave two lectures on The past, present and future of English corpus linguistics: a personal perspective The rise of cos and downfall of for: changes in English reason conjunctions over thge past 100 years. Abstrakts
On 27th and 28th May 2013, Dr Andrew Hardie (University of Lancaster) visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Annotation and analysis: an overview of tools and techniques The corpus research infrastructure at Lancaster’s UCREL research centre is based around the use of a number of standard tools for (a) automated annotation at various […]
On 11th and 12th June 2012, Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Adapting a semantic field tagging system for Early Modern English Automatic semantic annotation approaches can be used for many applications such as content analysis of political discourse, opinion mining and sentiment analysis. These applications are becoming very popular […]
On 19. April 2012 Prof. Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) visited our Institute and gave lecture on Corpus searching technologies and corpus linguistics – a history and prospectus.
On 16th and 17th May 2011, Michael Rundell visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Automating the creation of dictionaries: how far have we come, and what are the prospects for the future? Creating dictionaries is a labour-intensive and therefore rather expensive enterprise. But computer technology and NLP research have made it possible to […]
On 18th and 19th April 2011, Jean-Pierre Colsona (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique) visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Finding evidence for contrastive phraseology: examples of collocations with sea terms in French, Dutch and English Phraseology, the study of set phrases in general, clearly interacts with the culture and traditions of a language […]
