1st Chemnitz/Dresden Corpus Linguistics & Digital Humanities Conference

July 8, 2016

Venue

2015 Conf.

This small multilingual international conference aims at contributing to a new paradigm in humanities and beyond: "digital humanities" in the widest sense, from established quantitative linguistic or new interne-based discourses. It gives young researchers preference over experienced presenters and combines three perspectives:

Chemnitz and Dresden students present their BA, MA or PhD projects to a wider audience,
international scholars present their experience and discuss it with their Chemnitz partners, and
all participants discuss how to apply modern corpus-linguistic and digital techniques to their own work.

Together we would like to show that digital perspectives make our work rich and rewarding - especially when it can be discussed in good company.

Although this introduction uses English as an International Academic Language, the official conference languages are German, English, French and Italian - we encourage multilingual academic discourse - in audience-friendly, non-native academic style.

There is no conference fee, but for the planning of the lunch buffet and refreshments we would appreciate your registration above.

Programme

9:15	Organisatorisches / Housekeeping: Josef Schmied, Chemnitz Begrüßung / Welcome: Joachim Scharloth, Dresden Eröffnung / Opening: Dekan / Dean Stefan Garsztecki, Chemnitz

9:30

Quantitative und qualitative digitale Methoden / Quantitative and Qualitative Digital Methodologies
(Chair: Marina Bondi, Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Adeiza Isiaka (Lagos, Nigeria / Chemnitz):
Nigerian English vowels: un-fictioning the mergers

Anna Bonazzi, Franz Keilholz, Deborah Nagel und Yana Strakatova (Dresden):
Maschinelle Analyse sprachlicher Inhalte von Risikoberichten: Linguistische Zugänge zur ökonomischen Chancen- und Risikokommunikation in amerikanischen 10-K Geschäftsberichten

Eric Linhart (Chemnitz):
Öffentliche Diskurse in Print‐ und Online‐Medien. Ein Vergleich am Beispiel der Novelle zum Erneuerbare‐Energien‐Gesetz 2014

11:00

Kaffeepause / Coffee Break

11:30

Digitale Analysen: Sprache und andere Zeichen / Digital Analyses of Language and Signs
(Chair: Ellen Fricke, Chemnitz)

Franz Keilholz (Dresden):
Quantitative Fehleranalyse natürlicher Sprachdaten - Zur Erhebung und Evaluation maschinell generierter Fehlerdistributionen

Daniel Schöller (Chemnitz):
Korpuslinguistische Methodik und Multimodale Grammatik

Martin Siefkes (Chemnitz):
Schlendern im digitalen Museum: Die Verbindung von multimodaler Semiotik und Digital Humanities in der Analyse von Online-Ausstellungen

13:00	Mittagspause - Syrisches Buffet/Lunch Break - Syrian Buffet
14:00	Neue "coole" Methoden für BA/MA-Arbeiten / New Cool Methods for BA/MA Theses (Chair: Michael Hinner, Freiberg) Julia Ehmann (Chemnitz): American English Expressions vs. British English Expressions in Canadian Twitter Messages Michelle Klein (Chemnitz): Using eye-tracking methodologies to recognize advanced learners´ English features: Chinese students compared Gabriela Cosmina Djele Tchokouako (Chemnitz): Can Cameroonian Master Students drive CARS? Federica Modafferi (Pavia, Italy): A corpus-based analysis of causal adverbials in Italian Academic English: some preliminary findings
15:30	Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
16:00	Vergleichende Untersuchungen zum Wissenschaftlichen Schreiben weltweit / Investigating Academic Writing in Comparison world-wide (Chair: Joachim Scharloth, Dresden) Alexandra Esimaje (Nigeria): The COELL project comparing writing in Nigeria and Cameroon Xinlei Zhang / Guo Ya / Jessica Dheskali (China / Chemnitz): Compiling the ChAcE Corpus Vincenzo Dheskali (Chemnitz): Comparing Italian and Albanian Academic Writing

17:30

Blitzlicht-Evaluation / Feedback
(Matthias Hofmann)

18:00

Schlussbemerkungen / Closing Remarks - Arrivederci
(Marina Bondi, Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy)