AACL 2009 - American Association for Corpus Linguistics
Lister Conference Centre, University of Alberta - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
October 8 - 11, 2009
- Call for papers
- Abstracts
- Important dates
- Plenary speakers
- Preconference workshops
- Graduate student networking event
- Registration
- Programme and abstracts
- Conference pictures
- Venue
- Travel and Accommodation
- Visiting Edmonton
- Contacts
Previous AA(A)CL conferences: Brigham Young University (2008),
Northern Arizona University (2006,
2000), University of Michigan (2005,
1999), Montclair State University (2004),
IUPUI (2002),
and University of Massachusetts at Boston (2001)
Programme and Abstracts
The final abstract booklet from the conference, containing the programme, is now available. The final programme also appears below, together with downloadable presentations:
| American Association for Corpus Linguistics AACL 2009 | |||
| Lister
Conference Centre, University of Alberta, 87 Avenue & 116 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada October 8-11, 2009 |
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| Thursday, October 8 |
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS | ||
| 8:30 - 10:00 | Registration | ||
| WORKSHOPS Maple Leaf Room |
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| 10:00 - 12:30 | Stéfan Sinclair Practical XML for Linguists |
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| 12:30 - 13:30 | catered lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Christopher Cox Time-aligned transcription in ELAN |
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| 17:30 - 20:30 | Registration & Welcome Reception Light refreshments and a cash bar serving beer and wine Maple Leaf Room |
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| Friday, October 9 |
DAY ONE MORNING |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 | Opening Remarks John Newman Maple Leaf Room |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 | PLENARY - Brian MacWhinney "TalkBank - Reintegrating the disciplines" Maple Leaf Room, Chair: Rice |
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| Session
1 Prairie Room Register and Discourse |
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2 Maple Leaf Room Learner Corpora |
Session 3 Glacier Room Semantics |
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| Chair: Baayen | Chair: Kryuchkova | Chair: Shaoul | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Jankowski: Grammatical and register variation and change: A multi-corpora perspective on the English genitive | Barlow & Calude: Individual differences in the use of cleft constructions in speech | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Pezik: On the uniqueness of casual spoken discourse – insights from the National Corpus of Polish | Römer & O'Donnell: Positional variation of phrase-frames in a new corpus of proficient student writing | Taboada: Comparable corpora for cross-linguistic sentiment analysis |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | coffee break | ||
| Chair: Baayen | Chair: Barlow | Chair: Shaoul | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Geeraert: "I haven't drank in weeks": The use of past tense forms as past participles in English corpora | Johansson & Geisler: Syntactic aspects of Learner English | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Columbus: Irish like as an invariant tag: evidence from ICE-Ireland | Römer: Phraseological items in apprentice academic writing: Does nativeness matter? | Akiyama: The constructional meaning of Infinitival Relative Clauses in English: A corpus- based Approach |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Gales: "Get out before we get you!": A corpus-based analysis of stance in threatening communications | Tono, Nonura, Murakami, Kaneta, & Mochizuki: Unsupervised learning of criterial features of L2 acquisition stages using parallel learner corpora | |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | lunch | ||
| Session
1 Prairie Room Morphosyntax |
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2 Maple Leaf Room Learner Corpora |
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3 Glacier Room Semiotics and Registers |
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| Chair: Teddiman | Chair: Dilts | Chair: Wulff | |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Miglio & Gries: Narrative function(s) of tense switching: a corpus-based application to medieval Icelandic sagas | Neary-Sundquist: The role of task type in a learner corpus | Bednarek: Emotional practices and character identity in American popular culture |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Gajdos: Rethinking the German three-way system of spatial demonstrative adverbs: evidence from electronic corpora | Friginal, Baker, & Pearson: Linguistic Characteristics of Non-Native Speaker Writing in English: A Corpus-Based Analysis | Kuo: The representation of the elderly in Taiwanese newspapers: A corpus-based study |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Tomišić: A Corpus-based analysis of Slovene Reflexive Verbs (Verbs with SE) | Caple: Using corpus linguistics to explore the 'reading' of multi-semiotic play | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | coffee break | ||
| Chair: Rice | Chair: Tono | Chair: Bednarek | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Snoek: Variation in –im suffix usage in a Tok Pisin corpus | Sundquist & Neary-Sundquist: A corpus-based evaluation of vocabulary in the second language classroom | Aull: How textbook genres make readers, disciplines, nations: A qualitative and quantitative corpus approach |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Säily: Variation in morphological productivity in the BNC: Sociolinguistic and methodological considerations | Grant: Developing and Analysing the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC) | Wulff: A multifactorial analysis of (un)attended demonstratives in academic writing |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Ju: A Corpus-based Study of the Korean Quantifiers Cokum and Com | Iberri-Shea: University Student Public Speech: A Corpus-Based Study of Student Produced Language | |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | coffee break | ||
| Chair: Teddiman | Chair: Grant | Chair: Newman | |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Caldwell: A Corpus Analysis of Japanese Mimetics | Huang: The Acquisition of Grammatical Knowledge and Usage Using a Corpus- Aided Discovery Approach | |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Takeda: Japanese adjective 'sugoi' and adverb 'sugoku' in conversations | Lee: Like the experts? A multi-corpus approach to the features of Chinese research writing in English | Becher: New applications of translation corpora: Investigating language contact and language change |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Unser-Schutz: Developing a Text-Based Corpus of the Language of Japanese Comics (Manga) | Miglio: A corpus analysis of Scandinavian legal concepts in Anglo-Saxon Laws | |
| 17:15 - 18:15 | PLENARY - Shana Poplack "Corpora as tools for the study of linguistic change" Maple Leaf Room, Chair: Rice |
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| 18:30 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner Faculty Club |
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| Saturday, October 10 | DAY TWO MORNING |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 | PLENARY - Mark Liberman "The Journal of Experimental Linguistics" Maple Leaf Room, Chair: Baayen |
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| Session
1 Prairie Room English Morphosyntax |
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2 Aurora Room Corpora and Linguistic Theories |
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3 Glacier Room New Corpora |
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| Chair: Brinton | Chair: Römer | Chair: Davies | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Kendall, Van Herk & Bresnan: The Dative Alternation in African American English: Researching Syntactic Variation and Change in a Conglomerated Sociolinguistic Corpus | Meyer: Apposition from the Perspective of Construction Grammar | Raso & Mello: The C-ORAL-BRASIL Corpus |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Teddiman: Subject Ellipsis by Text Type: An Investigation using ICE-GB | Bergh: Complex extraction in English | Berber Sardinha: The Brazilian Corpus |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Stvan: Where Are They Bare? The Frequency and Distribution of Bare Nouns in American English | Duffley: What grammaticality judgements and decontextualized examples indicate: reflections in the light of corpus data | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | coffee break | ||
| Chair: van Herk | Chair: Cox | ||
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Tagliamonte & Waters: A tale of two cities: Comparing sociolinguistic patterns in England and Canada | Barlow: Demonstration of Collocates Software | Ussishkin, Francom & Woudstra: Electronic corpora for two Semitic languages |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Brinton: The development of <that said> | Barlow: Demonstration of Collocates Software | Scheffler, Roller, Reithinger: “VOICE Awards”: A German Human-Machine Dialog Corpus |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | lunch | ||
| Session
1 Prairie Room English Morphosyntax |
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2 Aurora Room Psycholinguistics, Speech and Register |
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3 Glacier Room Corpus Tools |
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| Chair: Meyer | Chair: Gries | Chair: Liberman | |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Chartrand, Nakamoto, Kunichika & Takeuchi: Analysis of Modal Auxiliaries in Two Consecutive Phrases Extracted from the British National Corpus | Dilts, Libben & Baayen: A Corpus Analysis of Frequency Effects on Eye- Movements in Sentence Context | Alarcón & Sierra: CORCODE: A Corpus of Definitional Contexts as a Lexicography Resource |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Kemmer & Barlow: A contrastive analysis of causal expressions | Tucker & Tremblay: Frequency and multi-word sequences: A psycholinguistic comparison of two corpora | Kendall: The Value of Relational Databases for Time- Aligned Annotation |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Gotscharek, Neumann, Reffle, Ringlstetter, & Schulz: Constructing a lexicon from a historical corpus | Shaoul, Westbury & Baayen: Agreeing with Google: We are Sensitive to the Relative Corpus Frequency of Phrases | O'Donnell: The Adjusted Frequency List: Evaluating a method to produce cluster-sensitive frequency counts |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | coffee break | ||
| Chair: Duffley | Chair: Tucker | Chair: Columbus | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Hsieh & Chung: “Do” and “Make”: A Corpus-based Study | Vaughn, Pierrehumbert & Rohde: Using character n-grams to classify native language in a non-native English corpus of transcribed speech | Nesi, Ahmad & Ibrahim: Pragmatic annotation in an international corpus of engineering lectures |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Aberra: English light predicate construction with an indefinite deverbal complement | Weinberger & Kunath: Towards a Typology of English Accents | Anthony, Chujo & Oghigian: A novel, web-based, parallel concordancer for use in the ESL/EFL classroom |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Rodríguez-Puente: “And new meanings turned up:” The development of new meanings of English phrasal verbs with up: Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER1 | Albers: A corpus-based study of how doctors construct diagnoses of osteopenia or osteoporosis with their patients | Li & Fang: Age Tagging and Word Frequency for Learner’s Dictionaries |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Liu: Is it a chief, main, major, primary, or principal concern? A corpus-based behavioral profile study of the near-synonyms and its implications | Bruce, Friginal, Pearson & Pickering: Developing a highly specialized corpus of spoken English: AAC discourse in the workplace | Gardner & Davies: A frequency dictionary of contemporary American English |
| 16:10 - 17:00 | coffee break | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | PLENARY - Mark Davies "Creating the first reliable monitor corpus of English: problems, solutions, and insights" Maple Leaf Room, Chair: Newman |
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| 18:30 - 20:30 | GRADUATE STUDENT NETWORKING EVENT - Dekang
Lin "Unsupervised Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from N-Grams" Alumni Lounge, 2-900 Students' Union Building (SUB), Chair: Snoek |
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| Sunday, October 11 | DAY THREE | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | PLENARY - Stefan Th. Gries "Corpus linguistics and theoretical linguistics: A love-hate relationship?" Maple Leaf Room, Chair: Newman |
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| Session
1 Prairie Room Connectives |
Session
2 Aurora Room Unsupervised Learning, Part-of-Speech Tagging |
Session 3 Glacier Room Corpus Development |
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| Chair: Waters | Chair: Vaughn | Chair: Kendall | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Soyeon Kim: Emergent Patterns of Conjunctive Adverbial "Though" in Academic Spoken English: A Corpus-based Study | Fung: Towards the unsupervised discovery of syntactic categories for typologically-varied languages | Van Herk, Childs & Thorburn: Safe Harbour: Ethics and accessibility in sociolinguistic corpus building |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Jia: A Corpus-based study of the connectives ‘danshi’ ‘keshi’ and ‘ran’er’ in Mandarin Chinese | Sun: Part-of-speech tagging for a Southern Min Corpus | Lonsdale: Beyond the dictionary: creating a long-term corpus resource |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Sangbok Kim: Interclausal Semantic Functions of the –E Connectives in Korean | Barreda: The use of Trigrams in Classification of texts based on Authorship | Cox: Corpus linguistics and language documentation: Challenges for collaboration |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | coffee break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | PLENARY - Geoffrey Rockwell and Alexandre
Sévigny "The extraordinary effectiveness of words" Maple Leaf Room, Chair: Newman |
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| 12:30 - 12:40 | CLOSING REMARKS | ||
