The 16th CorpusLinguistics in the South (CLS) event will take place on 3rd March 2018, at the
University of Sussex, with the theme ‘Quantifying Concepts in Corpus
Linguistics’.
Corpus approaches to meaning have often
operated at the level of the word. For example, early corpus linguistic
research examined the meanings of words, via frequencies of co-occurring words.
What happens when researchers shift the focus from the word to the concept? How
do we operationalise concepts? How do we quantify concepts? How do we compare
conceptual content between two datasets?
We welcome papers that approach the notion
of quantification and concepts in a wide variety of ways. Concepts might include
any level of linguistic meaning or combination of levels, i.e.: semantic,
pragmatic, discursive, socio-cultural, grammatical, or other. Quantitative
approach to concepts goes beyond focussing on frequency counts and encompasses
all stages of operationalising concepts in corpus linguistics from the working
definitions of concepts to the visualisation of conceptual content.
In the vein of the theme of this CLS meeting
there will be a plenary talk from the Linguistic DNA project by Dr Seth Mehl.
The Linguistic DNA team has been working to map semantics and concepts in the
very large historical data set of Early English Books Online (specifically,
EEBO-TCP).
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes for
presentation followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Papers may present research
that is finished or in progress; methodological or theoretical reflections or
discussions; or demonstrations of tools or resources. Papers are welcome from
established researchers and early career researchers, as well as PhD students.
Abstracts of 250
words should be submitted, with title and author(s) names, to justyna.robinson@sussex.ac.uk by 1 February, 2018.
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