🇫🇷 Summer Corpus Intensive
Location: France
Summer Corpus Intensive at Paris 8 University, 26-29 May 2026
Paris 8 University is pleased to announce their upcoming Summer Intensive Program ‘Corpus Methods in Linguistics–compilation, annotation, and quantitative analysis‘, to be held 26-29 May 2026.
This will be a 30h week-long course consisting of:
- morning sessions devoted to data collection, extraction and organization, as well as DIY corpus building
- afternoon sessions focusing on statistical analysis of the data produced during the morning sessions
- several half-day sessions on automatic annotation and manual annotation methods
Participants will learn how to:
- formulate advanced search queries in a concordancer (e.g. TextSTAT, AntConc)
- compile a text corpus with BootCaT
- automatically annotate a text corpus in TreeTagger
- measure keyword specificity and collocation strength using AntConc
- perform statistical analyses of categorical variables in R
To participate, or request further information, please send an email to the organizers indicating name, status (e.g. Doctoral student, Post-doctoral researcher, Faculty) and 5 keywords describing your research interests using this link daniel.henkel@univ-paris8.fr.
Tags: Corpus Linguistics, Summer School, Paris 8 University, Linguistic Research, Quantitative Analysis, Corpus Methods, Statistical Analysis, Text Corpus, France