Past events

Explore the forefront of data-driven linguistic methodology! Here you can find past events, as well as resources. To access materials used in an event, click on the event and then click on ‘Resources’ in the left sidebar. Feel inspired? Join our international consortium and advance expertise in language research together. Click here to see the events you can participate in!

Soft skills: Behind the journal

Behind the scenes of an academic journal & The subtle art of responding to Reviewer 2 In this workshop, Dagmar Divjak (University of Birmingham, Professor in Cognitive Linguistics) will also give us a look at the behind-the-scenes of a journal. ...

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MEDAL @ InScience #2

MEDAL will be represented at multilple events of the InScience Film Festival this year! On March 14, 2025, the Max Planck Institute willhave an Open Doors Day in collaboration with the InScience film festival. MEDAL’s messages on linguistic diversity and ...

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Project management training

Projektijuhtimise koolitus varase karjääri teadlastele MEDAL, in collaboration with the Estonian Doctoral School for Humanities and Arts, will offer project management training tailored to humanities PhD students and early-career researchers. The training takes place on the 6-7 of February at ...

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Masterclass in Computational Modelling

Embracing the Computational Turn in Data-Driven Linguistics In a field where the nuances of language often defy reduction, computational approaches to linguistics offer both challenges and transformative potential. This workshop makes a compelling case for the “Computational Turn” in Data-Driven ...

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Open Science: Why and how to do preregistration?

The Open Science workshops are back! In this third Open Science workshop, we will go into the whys: why you should not ignore open science, why you should do preregistration, and just as important: the hows of doing preregistration. The ...

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Statistics Masterclass II: Bayesian regression

with Natalia Levshina (Radboud University) After the success of the first round, the Statistics Masterclass is back! Many of you have expressed interest in Bayesian statistics, so we are pleased to offer a special opportunity. Natalia Levshina, a statistics expert ...

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MEDAL voor de middelbare school: Talk to the hand!

Talk to the hand! How sign languages express language with the body When we think about language we typically think of sounds and letters. But what about sign languages, the natural linguistic systems of deaf communities? Sign languages are real ...

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MEDAL voor de middelbare school: Knutselen met de bouwstenen van taal

Knutselen met taal? Dat doen we allemaal! Wist je dat de gemiddelde mens zo’n 42.000 woorden kent en dat al die woorden uit verschillende bouwstenen bestaan?   Het is nu moeilijk voor te stellen dat je een taal ooit hebt moeten ...

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Methods: Advanced data retrieval for corpus linguistics

Regular expressions, part-of-speech annotation, and constituency parsing This hands-on workshop introduces methods for retrieving complex patterns from corpus using R. We will start with the basics of regular expressions (regex), which enable analysts to identify abstract patterns in text data ...

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