LINGUIST List 11.922

Fri Apr 21 2000

FYI: Summer/Functional Ling, XML & Ling Workshop

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

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  • Michael Cummings, Summer School of Systemic Functional Linguistics
  • Keith Johnson, XML and Ling Annotation Workshop/ Ohio State Univ, USA

    Message 1: Summer School of Systemic Functional Linguistics

     Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:18:24 EST5EDT
    From: Michael Cummings <mcummingsGLENDON.YORKU.CA>
    Subject: Summer School of Systemic Functional Linguistics


    Announcing:

    The Third Summer School of Systemic Functional Linguistics July 16-21, 2000, at Glendon College, York University, Toronto

    Further information and registration at Website:

    http://www.glendon.yorku.ca/sssfl/

    The Summer School is for anyone interested in the relationships among texts, grammars, and cultures:

    Discourse analysts, Anthropologists, Communications Theorists, Linguists, Sociologists, Literary Theorists, Primatologists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and Semioticians

    We offer:

    * Graduate Credit Course or Non-Credit Options * International Faculty * Introductory Level (Lectures and Small Group Workshops) * Advanced Level (Discourse, including Human-Bonobo Discourse) * Beautiful Campus with easy access to downtown Toronto

    Message 2: XML and Ling Annotation Workshop/ Ohio State Univ, USA

     Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:56:02 -0400
    From: Keith Johnson <kjohnsonling.ohio-state.edu>
    Subject: XML and Ling Annotation Workshop/ Ohio State Univ, USA


    Announcing a 5-day workshop associated with "Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models" July 3-7, 2000 (see http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000 for further information)

    XML and Linguistic Annotation

    Chris Brew Department of Linguistics Ohio State University

    Corpora of spoken and written language are crucial to much of linguistics, providing both quantitive and qualitative data which informs and grounds our work. Much of the material which is available is raw text, but this is complemented by a substantial and increasing number of annotated corpora. It is important to ensure that such annotated corpora are reliable, re-usable and maximally informative, but it is not immediately obvious how this is to be achieved, not least because the corpus data often stimulates research which was not envisaged at the time that the data was collected.

    XML(the eXtensible Markup Language) provides a standardized vehicle for the generation, processing and exchange of arbitrary structured data, including, but not limited to, texts marked up with linguistic information. Many, but no means all, corpus creation initiatives have chosen to adopt the XML route. This means that researchers who want to use (and perhaps add to) the products of these efforts need to understand something of what XML is and how it can be used. Non-linguistic applications of XML will be covered only tangentially.

    This workshop introduces XML as a means for creating and using linguistic annotations, gives hands-on experience of both corpus annotation and corpus use, and discusses its strengths and weaknesses as a research tool. There will be five 105 minute sessions, one per day, spread over a week, along with practical sessions covering the use of text and speech data. Students should expect to spend approximately 60 minutes per day on the practicals. The only prerequisite is a very basic training in any of the language sciences. It should therefore be accessible to all participants in "Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models".