Pre-conference workshops

As a prelude to CL2017  a wide range of pre-conference workshops were offered, all of which took place at the University of Birmingham on Monday 24 July 2017. 

An overview of the workshop programme is provided below; please click on the title of each workshop for further details and/or calls for papers.

The pre-conference workshops were followed by a pre-conference opening talk by Professor Susan Hunston. For the abstract of her talk - 'Corpus Linguistics in 2017: a personal view', please see the overview of the plenary talks.

Full-day workshops

Workshop 1: CLARIN-UK: Promoting Cross-disciplinary Corpus Linguistics

Convenors:

• Martin Wynne, University of Oxford
  martin.wynne@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 

Workshop 2: Complexity in Writing Development: Untangling Two Approaches to Measuring Grammatical Complexity

Convenors:

• Bethany Gray, Iowa State University
  begray@iastate.edu
• Shelley Staples, University of Arizona
  slstaples@email.arizona.edu
• Jesse Egbert, Northern Arizona University
  jesse.egbert@nau.edu

Workshop 3: Corpus-based approaches to sign language linguistics: Into the second decade

Convenor:

• Adam Schembri, University of Birmingham
  a.schembri@bham.ac.uk

Workshop 4:  Styling: Big and Small Data in Corpus Stylistics

Convenors:

• Beatrix Busse, University of Heidelberg
  beatrix.busse@as.uni-heidelberg.de
• Anna Čermáková, Charles University, Prague
  anna.cermakova@ff.cuni.cz

Workshop 5: The 11th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-XI)

Convenors:

• Adrien Barbaresi, Austrian and Berlin-Brandenburg Academies of Sciences
  adrien.barbaresi@oeaw.ac.at
• Felix Bildhauer, IDS Mannheim
  felix.bildhauer@fu-berlin.de
• Roland Schäfer, Freie Universität Berlin
  roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de

Half-day workshops

Morning sessions (09:30 – 12:30)

Workshop 6: Corpus approaches to health communication

Convenors:

• Gavin Brookes, University of Nottingham
  gavin.brookes@nottingham.ac.uk
• Kevin Harvey, University of Nottingham
  kevin.harvey@nottingham.ac.uk
• Daniel Hunt, University of Nottingham
  daniel.hunt@nottingham.ac.uk

Workshop 7: #LancsBox: A new corpus tool for researchers, students and teachers

Convenors:

• Vaclav Brezina, Lancaster University
  v.brezina@lancaster.ac.uk
• Matt Timperley, Lancaster University
  m.timperley@lancaster.ac.uk

Afternoon sessions

Workshop 8: CMLC 5 + Big NLP 2017

Convenors:

• Piotr Banski, IDS Mannheim
  banski@ids-mannheim.de
• Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
  p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk

Workshop 9: Introducing the Spoken BNC2014 – explore the data yourself

Convenors:

• Robbie Love, Lancaster University
  r.m.love@lancaster.ac.uk
• Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University
  a.hardie@lancaster.ac.uk