Corpora: Int'l Symposium: Corpus Linguistics and the Study of Modern Hebrew

Uri Horesh (urihores@post.tau.ac.il)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:28:03 +0200

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM:
CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND THE STUDY OF MODERN HEBREW

EMORY UNIVERSITY
ATLANTA, GA

FEBRUARY 3-4, 2000

Thursday, February 3, 2000
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The Joseph W: Jones Room, Woodruff Library

9:00-9:30 AM Opening Addresses:
- Rebecca Chopp, Provost
- Gordon Newby, Chair, Middle Eastern Studies

Session 1: Methodology I
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9:30-10:30 AM John Sinclair, The University of Birmingham, England
and the Tuscan Word Center, Italy
- Corpus Linguistics: The State of the Art

10:30-11:10 AM Jack Du Bois, The University of California, Santa Barbara
- The Corpus of Conversational American English

11:10-11:30 AM Coffee Break

Session 2: Methodology II
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11:30 AM-12:10 PM Elena Tognini-Bonelli, The University of Lecce
and the Tuscan Word Center, Italy
- Corpus Linguistics and the Teaching of Languages

12:10-12:50 PM Dominic Glennon, Cambridge University Press, England
- Computational Aspects

12:50-2:00 PM Lunch break

Session 3: Other Corpora
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2:00-2:40 PM Otto Jastrow, The University of Erlangen-Nuerenberg, Germany
- The Corpus of Palestinian Arabic

2:40-3:20 PM Debra Spitulnik, Emory University
- Documenting Bemba Language Change (Zambia)
Through Corpus Linguistics

3:20-3:40 PM Coffee Break

Session 4: Sociology and Statistics
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3:40-4:10 PM Shlomo Izre'el, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- The Emergence of Modern Hebrew

4:10-4:50 PM Eliezer Ben Rafael, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Israel as a Multilingual Society

4:50-5:30 PM Giora Rahav, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Sampling of Population and the
Formation of a Representative Corpus

5:30-5:50 PM Respondent: Regina Werum, Emory University

The Faculty Dining Room, Dobbs University Center
Public Lecture:
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8:00-9:00 PM John Sinclair, The University of Birmingham, England
and the Tuscan Word Center, Italy
- Lexical Grammar: A New and Revolutionary Look at Language

Friday, February 4, 2000
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Session 5: Modern Hebrew I
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9:00-9:40 AM Yaakov Bentolila, Ben Gurion University, Israel
- Spoken Modern Hebrew across Generations

9:40-10:20 AM Shmuel Bolozky, The University of Massachussetts, Amherst
- Phonological and Morphological Variation in Spoken Hebrew

10:20-11:00 AM Geoffrey Khan, Cambridge University, England
- Modern Hebrew Syntax: The State of the Art

11:00-11:20 AM Coffee Break

Session 6: Modern Hebrew II
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11:20 AM-12:00 PM Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University, Israel
and The University of California, Santa Barbara
- Why Would a Pragmatician Need a Corpus of Spoken Hebrew?

12:00-12:40 PM Benjamin Hary, Emory University
& Shlomo Izre'el, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Toward the Compilation of the Corpus of Spoken Hebrew

12:40-2:00 PM Lunch break

Session 7: Discussion
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2:00-3:00 PM Demonstrations of Computer Programs:
Jack Du Bois (The Santa Barbara Corpus);
Dominic Glennon (CUP Corpus)

3:00-4:30 PM Discussion of Programming and Other Technical Issues

For more information, please contact Professor Benjamin Hary
<bhary@learnlink.emory.edu> OR Professor Shlomo Izre'el
<izreel@post.tau.ac.il>.