Summer School Program
Tartu, 19-23 June 2023
Each day will centre around one major topic with a plenary talk, parallel workshops and other opportunities to develop your own corpus linguistics research. Descriptions of the various workshops and social events can be found here.
Plenary talks, workshops and coffee breaks all take place in the Humanities building located at Jakobi 2.
An informal event for early arrivals is planned for Sunday evening (details coming soon via email).
Download a PDF version of the program.
Day 1: Corpus and Grammar (June 19)
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Opening | Ringauditoorium | |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Plenary talk |
Corpus-based Typology: Opportunities and Challenges (Natalia Levshina, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) |
Ringauditoorium |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 | Flash talks | 3-minute poster presentations | Ringauditoorium |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Parallel workshops |
A. Grammatical Variation and Deep Learning (Natalia Levshina) B. Collecting and Analysing Child Language Data (Caroline Rowland) C. ELAN for Beginners (Joshua Wilbur) |
A. Room 438 B. Room 428 C. Room L3 - 425 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Parallel workshops continuation (see above) | ||
| 18:00 - 19:30 |
Guided tour of Tartu city centre meet in front of the university main building (Ülikooli 18) |
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Day 2: Corpus, Semantics and Register (June 20)
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Plenary talk |
Intra-Individual variation. Corpus Linguistics and Research on Register (Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
Ringauditoorium |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Poster presentations + Consultations for students with instructors | Foyer | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Parallel workshops |
A. Corpora and Variation. Concepts Options and Challenges (Anke Lüdeling) B. Tracking the development of multi-word and multi-morphemic expressions in learner language (Doğuş Öksüz) C. Descriptive Stats and Data Visualisation (Andres Karjus) |
A. Room 438 B. Room 427 C. Room 428 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Parallel workshops continuation (see above) | ||
| 18:30 - 21:00 | Summer school reception at Ülikooli Kohvik (Ülikooli 20) | ||
(In addition, there is a workshop on linguistics for secondary school students, led by Dagmar Divjak L3-425)
Day 3: Corpus, Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis (June 21)
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Plenary talk |
Exploring constructions of identity using Corpus-based discourse analysis (Amanda Potts, Cardiff University) |
Ringauditoorium |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Poster presentations + Consultations for students with instructors | Foyer | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Parallel workshops |
A. Identity Analysis in SketchEngine. Basics. (Amanda Potts) B. Using Newspapers in Estonia for text analytics (Peeter Tinits) C. Using CLARIN resources for corpus linguistics (Satu Saalasti) |
A. Room 438 B. Room 427 C. Room 428 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Parallel workshops continuation (see above) | ||
Day 4: Corpus and Multimodality (June 22)
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Plenary talk |
Large-scale multimodal Corpus Linguistics: Concepts and Applications (Peter Uhrig, Technische Universität Dresden) |
Ringauditoorium |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Consultations for students with instructors | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Parallel workshops |
A. A workflow for Multimodal Corpus Research (Peter Uhrig) B. Annotation and coding of multimodal corpora in ELAN (Anita Slonimska) C. Bringing together manual coding and motion-tracking for advanced analysis of multimodal communication (James Trujillo) D. Multi-level / mixed-effect models (Petar Millin) |
A. Room 438 B. Room L3 - 425 C. Room 427 D. Room 428 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | Foyer | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Parallel workshops continuation (see above) | ||
Day 5: Combining Corpus methods with experimental and computational approaches (June 23)
| 09:30 - 10:45 | MEDAL team joint plenary |
Corpus linguistics, experimental methods, computational modelling 3 talks |
Ringauditoorium |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Closing remarks | Ringauditoorium | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Final coffee break | Foyer | |
| 11:30 - 13:45 | MEDAL steering committee lunch and meeting (invite only) | ||
| 14:00 - 18:00 |
Bog hike at Selli-Sillaotsa The bus leaves from Jakobi 1 |
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| 20:00 - 03.00 |
Midsummer celebration at Raadi Park Meet up at 19:30 by the huge #TARTU2024 sign on town hall square (Raekoja plats) to go there together |
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