Successful Corpus and VoC Lunch This Week
In case you missed it, corpus work from across the department was showcased during this week’s Corpus and VoC Lunch, which offered 5-minute presentations for members of the department to discuss their corpus-related projects. The presentations are listed below:
- Simon Todd – “That’s how kiwis speak, eh: a corpus study of “eh” in New Zealand English”
- Robin Melnick – “Development and application of an Individual Differences corpus”
- Robin Melnick (on behalf of Tom Wasow) – “Optional to after help in COCA”
- Katherine Hilton & Bonnie Krejci – “Agreement Variation Under Existential ‘There’”
- Sam Bowman – “Data for natural language inference”
- Kate Lindsey – “Something’s Afoot in Chuvash”
- Lelia Glass – “Using corpora to test socio-pragmatic predictions: The case of need to, have to and got to”
- Natalia Silveira – “The Universal Dependencies project: syntactic dependencies for all”
- Sara Kessler – “The Stage/Individual Level Distinction as a Predictor of Absoluteness in Gradable Adjectives”
- Daniel Galbraith – “Faroese ballad meter”
- Rob Voigt – “Multimodal Corpora for Understanding Multimodal Prosody”
- Gabe Doyle – “Building ad hoc social media corpora to research pragmatics and dialect geography”
- Janneke Van Hofwegen – “/s/ and gender in Redding, CA”
Wow! Keep up the good work, everyone.
