Bootstrapping Information from Corpora in a Cross Linguistic Perspective - 3rd International LABLITA Workshop in Corpus Linguistics (Firenze, 4-5 giugno 2008)

Presentazione

            June 4^th

9:15 Welcome, Adele Dei (Director of the Italian Department)

9:30-11 Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University), Are there linguistic consequences of literacy?  Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing

11-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:15 Angela Ferrari, Anna Maria De Cesare (University of Basel), Language-Text Interface: Thematic and Logical progression (rivisited)

12:15-13:15  Emanuela Cresti (University of Florence), The Informational Patterning Theory and the Corpus-based description of Spoken language

13:15-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:15 Miriam Voghera, Giusy Turco (University of Salerno), From lexicon to text:  pre-target structures annotation in a L2 Italian  corpus

15:15-16 Marta Garrote, Antonio Moreno Sandoval (Universitad Autonoma, Madrid),  A Spanish Child Language Corpus

16:16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17 Dominique Willems (University of Gand) On the usefulness of corpora in syntactic and semantic analysis:  'weak' verbs and  existential structures in spoken French

17-17:45 Alessandro Panunzi (University of Florence), Semantic Variation of the Verb "Essere" in Spoken Italian: Corpus Driven Research vs Generative Taxonomy of Copular Sentences

            June 5^th

9:30-10:30 Douglas Biber  (Northern Arizona University) Merging corpus linguistic and discourse analytic research goals:  Discourse units in biology research articles

10:30-11:15 Manuel Barbera, Simona Colombo (University of Turin), Normalization pre-processing procedures for Newsgroup corpora

11:15-11:30 Coffee break

11:30 12:15 Elena Tognini Bonelli (University of Siena), Phrases, terms and discourse in the language of economics

12:15-13  Software Demonstration The LABLITA Multilingual Key-words extractor

Lunch