Corpus Linguistics & Digital Humanities Conference

This year, we open our discussions for all BA/MA and PhD students in the wider area who use digital linguistics and humanities methodologies in the widest sense.

The Conference will be preceded by a Research Methods Workshop for all MA and PhD students sponsored by the AvH. Two African Humboldt scholars will attend and support young scholars. Subject specialists from South African and Italian partner research groups will report from their own national experience and comment on projects:

We encourage not only big data projects, but any modern research methodology from a simple on-line questionnaire to a complex eye-tracking experiment, from a qualitative comparison of group-specific usage in twitter to a quantitative comparison of newspapers, from a key-word-in-context analysis of academic writing patterns to a multivariate sociophonetic study using PRAAT.

The conference will provide a forum for discussion on “digital” methodologies in a wide sense, as indicated in this short exposé. We encourage students from non-linguistic disciplines in particular to use corpus linguistic and digital humanities methodologies to pursue their own research areas from neighbouring disciplines, like political science, economics, literature and psychology. Conference languages are English and German.

The aim of this intensive conference is to allow presenters to develop their ideas openly, so that their peers, other students and a few invited friendly experts, will advise them how to finish their projects successfully and to inspire non-presenters to follow their methodological model and to use modern technologies to answer old questions with new data? This forum is also the appropriate place for “dress rehearsals” for bigger conferences.

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