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.

An informal event for early arrivals is planned for Sunday (details coming soon).

Day 1: Corpus and Grammar (June 19)

09:15 - 09:30 Opening
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary talk

Corpus-based Typology: Opportunities and Challenges (Natalia Levshina)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Flash talks 3-minute poster presentations
12:30 - 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)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Parallel workshops continuation
18:00 - 19:30 Social event. Tartu city tour with a guide.

 

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)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Poster presentations + Consultations for students with instructors
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)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Parallel workshops continuation
18:30 - 21:00 Social event. Summer school reception.

(In addition, there is a workshop on linguistics for secondary school students, led by Dagmar Divjak)

 

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)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Poster presentations + Consultations for students with instructors
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)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Parallel workshops continuation

 

Day 4: Corpus and Multimodality (June 22)

09:30 - 11:00 Plenary talk

Large-scale multimodal Corpus Linguistics: Concepts and Applications (Peter Uhrig)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
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)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Parallel workshops continuation

 

Day 5: Combining Corpus methods with experimental and computational approaches (June 23)

09:30 - 11:00 MEDAL team joint plenary

Corpus linguistics, experimental methods, computational modelling

3 talks (20 min + 10 min Q&A each)

11:00 – 11:15 Closing remarks
11:15 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 14:00 MEDAL steering committee meeting
14:00 - 18:00 Social event. Hiking in the bog. 
14:00 - 03.00 Social event. Midsummer celebration.