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<div class="gmail-flex gmail-flex-grow gmail-flex-col gmail-max-w-full"><div dir="auto" class="gmail-min-h-[20px] gmail-text-message gmail-flex gmail-flex-col gmail-items-start gmail-whitespace-pre-wrap gmail-break-words gmail-[.text-message+&]:mt-5 gmail-juice:w-full gmail-juice:items-end gmail-overflow-x-auto gmail-gap-2"><div class="gmail-flex gmail-w-full gmail-flex-col gmail-gap-1 gmail-juice:empty:hidden gmail-juice:first:pt-[3px]"><div class="gmail-markdown gmail-prose gmail-w-full gmail-break-words gmail-dark:prose-invert gmail-light"><p>Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,</p><p>ich möchte Sie gerne auf zwei <b>Workshops zur Korpuslinguistik</b> aufmerksam machen, die das Institut für Slawistik zusammen mit dem Alexander-Brückner-Zentrum nächste und übernächste Woche organisiert. Für die Teilnahme ist keine computerlinguistische Erfahrung notwendig, jedoch wird ein zumindest <b>begrenztes passives Verständnis des Polnischen</b> erwünscht.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-mt-1 gmail-flex gmail-gap-3 empty:hidden gmail-juice:-ml-3"><div class="gmail-items-center gmail-justify-start gmail-rounded-xl gmail-p-1 gmail-flex"><div class="gmail-flex gmail-items-center"><span class="gmail-"></span></div></div></div>
<div><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">On June 14 and 17, there will be two workshops on corpus linguistics with a focus on the Polish language. They are organized by the Institute of Slavic and Caucasus Studies of the Jena University and by the Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrum (Jena/Halle). Both workshops will be conducted in person in Jena as well as online. There are no prerequisites for participation. However, openness to learning new computer tools and at least some passive understanding of Polish are very much encouraged. If you want to participate in either (or both) of the workshops, please fill out <b><a href="https://forms.gle/wZNWcyAnGcHMdgwcA">this registration form</a></b>. If you have any special needs or expectations, please express them in the registration form.<br><br><b>EXPLORING SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION VIA A DIALECTAL CORPUS: THE SPISZ CORPUS (June 14, 9:00-14:00)</b><br>Dialectal machine-readable corpora are a valuable source of sociolinguistic data if the questions are correctly addressed. The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the exploration of sociolinguistic variation via a corpus, in this case, the corpus which documents the dialect of the Polish part of Spisz. In the first part of the course, we shall formulate queries that pick up dialectal and standard features in the speech of the speakers. Once the data are gathered, we shall explore the social variables that determine the use of the dialect or standard forms. The data will be analyzed and visualized with Excel. <br>The workshop will be conducted by <b>Dr. Rafał L. Górski</b>, professor at Jagiellonian University and Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences. He collaborated in compiling a number of corpora of Polish: National Corpus of Polish, Spisz Corpus, Corpus of Polish Speech, Old Polish Corpus. In his research he focuses on the use corpus-based methods to investigate grammar. <br><br><b>MAKING YOUR OWN LINGUISTIC CORPUS WITH SPOCO (June 17 9:00-15:00)</b><br>The workshop focuses on concordancing with the corpus manager Spoco, a simple and adaptable web interface for dialect corpora. An introductory lecture will be followed by hands-on exercises. The workshop will cover both exploring existing corpora and creating tailored resources with Spoco. It will also most likely include some programming with Python. Students should be open to this; however, no previous programming skills are required.<br>The workshop will be conducted by <b>Dr. Michał Woźniak</b> (Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences), who specializes in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and corpus linguistics. Dr. Woźniak participated in the creation of numerous corpora.</div><div><br></div><div>Mit freundlichen Grüßen</div><div>Ivan Levin<br></div></div>