[APCLA 9] Sydney Corpus Lab November 2022 Newsletter

Tue Nov 8 03:33:59 EST 2022

Dear all,

With apologies for cross-posting, please find below the (edited) Nov newsletter from the Sydney Corpus Lab. Best, Monika

From: syd-corpus-lab <syd-corpus-lab-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au> On Behalf Of Kelvin Lee via syd-corpus-lab
Sent: Monday, 7 November 2022 1:33 AM
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Subject: [Syd-corpus-lab] Sydney Corpus Lab November 2022 Newsletter

Dear Sydney Corpus Lab members and affiliates,
We hope this email finds you well. This is the fifth edition of our new monthly newsletter where we aim to let you know about news and updates relating to recent and upcoming corpus linguistics (and text analytics) events/resources. Apologies for any unintentional omissions. If you want us to include anything in the next newsletter, please email info at sydneycorpuslab.com<mailto:info at sydneycorpuslab.com>.
News and events from the Lab

The Sydney Corpus Lab needs your help. We're trying to compile a list of introductions, textbooks, and handbooks on corpus linguistics in different languages (not just English) and need your suggested additions - you should be able to see and directly edit the document here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nwUYCzvkyVCR61X9Gt4UiuI?domain=docs.google.com>.

Carly Bray recently wrote a blog post<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/HD0-CANpgjC94Qx2ZC8PCTw?domain=sydneycorpuslab.com/> about her corpus linguistic study on First Nations people in Australian print news: Insights from prepositional collocates. If you've missed any other blog posts from the Sydney Corpus Lab, they can be found here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6p3RCBNqjlCVjGxBDHNN_Sv?domain=sydneycorpuslab.com/>.
We are pleased to have hosted a very successful online talk from Dr Martin Schweinberger about reproducibility, replication, and transparency in corpus linguistics! No more guest lectures are planned for this year but do keep an eye out for next year's events.
Call for submissions
The call for abstracts for the 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7) is open until 30 November (see the conference website<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/FuAmCD1vlpTBq970oiZrpMe?domain=isle-linguistics.org/>). This event will take place on 19-23 June 2023 as a hybrid conference at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, with the conference theme "Combining Tradition and Computation". Note that there is a pre-conference panel/workshop dedicated to Challenges and New Directions in English Corpus Linguistics in Australia, organised by Monika Bednarek, Peter Crosthwaite, and Martin Schweinberger. The workshop aims to bring together different corpus linguistics sub-fields (e.g., corpus-based discourse analysis, learner corpus research, World Englishes, corpus-based sociolinguistics) with a common focus on challenges and innovations. Each talk will present either a challenge the researcher has faced in their corpus linguistic research or an innovation that they have made or want to propose. We encourage contributions that focus specifically on challenges/innovations that arise from the Australian context but invite contributors to draw out the international implications of their research - that is, explicitly mention any potential implications or conclusions for English corpus linguistics in other contexts. We would now like to invite scholars undertaking research on English corpus linguistics who are either working for an Australian institution or who are focusing on Australian English(es) to consider presenting their research as part of this workshop. In case you are interested, please simply add "(CL Australia)" to the end of the title of your submission for ISLE7. Any questions about this workshop can be addressed to Dr. Martin Schweinberger at m.schweinberger at uq.edu.au<mailto:m.schweinberger at uq.edu.au>
The call for papers for the 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2023) is open until 31 December 2022. The conference will take place on 10-12 May 2023 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oviedo. Please visit the conference website<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TNRhCE8wmrtWL7wMltZEMXn?domain=cilc2023.wordpress.com/> for more information.

The call for papers for the Corpus Linguistics 2023 conference (CL2023) is now open (until 6 January 2023). The conference will take place at Lancaster University on 3-6 July 2023. The main conference will be preceded by a workshop day on Sunday 2 July. More details can be found on the conference website<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QFWOCGv0oyCJk7rGBs0Ckb0?domain=wp.lancs.ac.uk/>.
ATAP/LDaCA project events
The Australian Text Analytics Platform<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xRdGCJyBrGf8ZJk5BCpA0Ou?domain=atap.edu.au/> (ATAP) and the Language Data Commons of Australia<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jJDYCK1DvKTqOoQmDCnG7tz?domain=ldaca.edu.au/> (LDaCA) are collaborative projects led by the University of Queensland and supported by the Australian Research Data Commons<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WYB9CL7EwMfPKW04kC1WRK6?domain=ardc.edu.au/> to develop infrastructure for researchers who work with language data. At Sydney, we're involved through the Sydney Corpus Lab, the Sydney Informatics Hub, and Paradisec.

The Sydney Informatics Hub is conducting a webinar on 'Analysing conversation and social media data with the ATAP Discursis tool'. The webinar will take place on Thursday 10 November at 12pm AEDT (11am AEST). You can register for the workshop here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1lsZCMwGxOt5XrpW2CRbwtH?domain=eventbrite.com.au>.

Additionally, ATAP and LDaCA will jointly run a one-day workshop on Tuesday November 29 at the University of Melbourne, Parkville in the lead up to ALS2022. This workshop will provide an opportunity to learn more about their work. The activities will be of interest to anyone who conducts research which includes language data, especially those who use or would like to use computational tools in their research. Participants should bring their own computer; no software is required beyond a web browser. You can register for this workshop, while registering for the conference online<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LAUFCNLJyQUN7WYXZH966cA?domain=als.asn.au>. You can find more information about the workshop here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7goLCOMKzVTAn8D4NSJmH81?domain=ldaca.edu.au>.
Other upcoming events
The British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Health and Science Communication Special Interest Group is holding a one-day workshop focusing on corpus linguistics, big data and information quality in health and science communication. The workshop is a hybrid event (with the University of Nottingham as the in-person venue) and takes place on Friday 11 November. For more information, please visit the event webpage<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BzbjCQnMBZf6OQnrXcK8ZVU?domain=nottingham.ac.uk>.

There will be a Corpus Linguistics Workshop taking place on 13 February 2023 at the Australian National University (ANU). This is a free workshop focussing on the application of corpus linguistics in discourse and health communication studies. For further information, see the Eventbrite page<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/X--9CROND2urE6wBGs4n62r?domain=eventbrite.com>.

Other

The Chancellor's Fellowship scheme at the University of Edinburgh may be of interest to corpus/computational/digital linguists. This a 5 year research fellowship with the possibility of a continuing contract at the end. You can find more information about the fellowship here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Tu-VCVARKgCl3JV92SAGF-J?domain=elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com>.

Kelvin Lee | Project Manager
Sydney Corpus Lab
Rm 837, Brennan MacCallum Building A18 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
kelvin.k.lee at sydney.edu.au<mailto:kelvin.k.lee at sydney.edu.au>

Recent:

First-Person Pronouns and Discursive Characterisation in Science Fiction Anime<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/3WfNCWLVXkUjOE1G6fPixZw?domain=sydneylanguageresearch.org/> [blog post]

Constructing the corpus of Science Fiction Anime dialogue (SciFAn)<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Cgl3CXLW2mUn2Ql04H8D5tQ?domain=sydneycorpuslab.com/> [blog post]

Language and Character Identity: A Study of First-Person Pronouns in a Corpus of Science Fiction Anime Dialogue<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9aoJCYW8Noc3M7KODSWUKNn?domain=ses.library.usyd.edu.au> [Doctoral thesis]

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