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<div><div dir="auto"><div><div><p>Liebe Liste,</p><p>ich möchte Sie gerne an die zwei <b>Workshops zur Korpuslinguistik</b> erinnern, die unser Institut 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><div><div><span></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" target="_blank">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><font color="#888888"><div>Ivan Levin</div></font><br></div>