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)

 

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
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