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. | |