#RC21symposium

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@rc21project.bsky.social, where Susan gave a wonderful talk on a very related topic back in spring ☺️

Myself in front of a poster titled "Teaching Distributional Semantics Through Concordance Analysis".

Another focus was using concordances in teaching, which I also discussed in my poster on “Teaching Distributional Semantics Through Concordance Analysis”, for which I received several valuable pointers. #RC21Symposium (2/2)

The Kollegienhaus in Erlangen.

Last week I attended the @rc21project.bsky.social symposium in the beautiful Kollegienhaus in Erlangen. I appreciated the focus on theoretical considerations around concordance analysis and the openness to discuss advantages and disadvantages in regards to ‘manual’ research. #RC21Symposium (1/2)

Had an amazing time in Erlangen, Germany, last week and now miss hanging out with the language and concordance enthusiasts who gathered at #RC21Symposium

Finally, the very last talk of #RC21symposium presented by @nfdykes.bsky.social and @michamahlberg.bsky.social uses neural embeddings to understand the functions of body part nouns in 19th c fiction. All via FlexiConc, of course.

RC21 PROJECT SYMPOSIUM Patterns of narrative fiction in English and German Nathan Dykes & Michaela Mahlberg Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

A case study: insights from concordances? • Yesterday - technical FlexiConc • Python library to support the way we can look at concordance lines o CLiC illustrating how FlexiConc can be implemented • Wednesday's training day o we'read' concordances to find out about meanings and functions in textual data o hands-on - examples to illustrate functionalities of FlexiConc • Now - a case study: o what can we find out about body language in English and German when we look at concordance lines? The RC21 Project: Methods and Tools for Concordance Reading

The final #RC21Symposium session by @nfdykes.bsky.social & @michamahlberg.bsky.social - wrapping up the 3-day event with a case study

At #RC21symposium Marc Kupietz recounts the history of concordancing tools at @idsmannheim.bsky.social from Cosmas to KorAP.

IDS MAIN PROJECT AIMS • minimize the risk of total failure: • strategy: focus on features complementary to COSMAS II • suspicion: a single tool that fulfils all wishes is inpossible • rather many of them complementing each other • core-sustainability for >20 years • realistic extensibility with important features • always meet the requirements of a scientific tool Marc kupietz • Scaling Concordancing • RC21 Project Symposium • EAU, Erlangen - 2025-03-21 19 / 85

I think every research project should aim to „minimise the risk of total failure“ 😊
Marc Kupietz, @idsmannheim.bsky.social
#RC21Symposium

Case study II: Telecinematic language by Valentin Werner, University of Bamberg Concordance lines informing quantitative follow-up analysis: Standard vs. non-standard (prescriptively sanctioned) variants gonna (vs. going to); n = 463,294 gotta (vs. got to); n = 90,263 wanna (vs. want to); n = 188,449 oughta (vs. ought to); n = 1,433 lemme (vs. let me); n = 37,377

Interesting that several #RC21Symposium speakers have suggested starting with qualitative concordance analysis, followed up by quantitative analysis, @anteangaeile.bsky.social and Valentin Werner @jlpopculture.bsky.social from his 2020 article fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/pub...

Now Valentin Werner is giving us a glimpse into the field of pop cultural linguistics @jlpopculture.bsky.social. Greatly enjoying myself in the last session of #RC21symposium

If anyone at #RC21symposium would like an A4 poster to advertise @studentresearch.bsky.social at their institution, let me know 😉

The mix of clapping and knocking at #RC21symposium brings me joy ☺ (I'm a clapper for some reason)

It's poster session time at the #rc21symposium! Here is the first poster: @diegolieugenia.bsky.social investigated question mark patterns in a web corpus of Japanese

Slide for the lightning talk announcing the poster "multiplyitbyxreadingconcordancesinalanguagewithoutwordorsentenceboundaries" by Florian Keßler, Diane Donner, Shuyi Li

We're now in the lightning talks introducing the #RC21Symposium posters.
I'm particularly happy that several of my (former) students will be presenting; and that some of them have been involved in what's certainly the most eye-catching title!

@anteangaeile.bsky.social highlighted the value of qualitative and manual analysis in addition to quantitative insights in corpus analysis, especially to tease out unexpected variations and patterns #RC21Symposium

Getting ready for the poster session (including 🥪 and ☕️) at #RC21symposium. But first we whet our appetites with lightning presentations!

@anteangaeile.bsky.social now pits concordances against manual analysis at #RC21symposium – I assume that the angry birds are the concordance lines. 😅

How to help L2 learners with concordance reading - Use online dictionaries while reading concordances - Provide easy-to-read concordances 1. Graded readers approach 2. Text filter approach

How to make concordance more accessible Graded readers approach - Provide learners with vocabulary-controlled concordances - How? - Provide corpora of graded readers, textbooks, retold materials - Create easy-to-read texts or examples for pedagogical purposes - Al-generated vocabulary-controlled texts

How to make concordance more accessible Text filter approach - Provide learners with concordance lines filtered by different levels of text difficulty - How? - Filter the concordance lines: GDEX by Sketch Engine - Filter the web texts while making web corpora using CEFR-J resources

If I can find the time, I‘m tempted to feed some of Yukio Tono‘s #RC21Symposium tips on accessible concordancing for L2 learners into my corpora as a resource and DDL sessions on our @stirtesol.bsky.social Technology in Language Education module in the next 2 weeks ☺️

The final day of #RC21symposium kicks off with Yukio Tono speaking on readability measures for concordance reading – hopefully soon to be implemented in FlexiConc! @rc21project.bsky.social

Fanfiction im Archiv - DLA Marbach

What a day - after a great morning at the #RC21symposium, I am now listening to Kristina Busse at the "Fanfiction im Archiv" conference (www.dla-marbach.de/bibliothek/p...) 🤩

A concordance of the term "come to terms with". Underlined are expressions left to the node expressing difficulty, e.g. "struggle", "unable "

As we're coming to terms with the nearing end of the first #RC21Symposium day, Susan Hunston shows how concordances help to systematise unexpected uses of constructions.

Coming to terms with success | Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies

It’s a pleasure to listen to Susan Hunston present on identifying sequences of meaning related to her 2024 paper (which I actually happened to list as further reading for my discourse analysis students earlier this semester☺️) account.jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/index.php/uc...
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For the final talk of the day, Susan Hunston discusses the fascinating concept of construction collocations. #RC21symposium @rc21project.bsky.social @fau.de

Photo of Alexander Piperski (presenting with Stephanie Evert, out of the frame) on the CLiC and FlexiConc integration, showing an analysis tree to document queries

Very exciting to see the @dhssfau.bsky.social updates to CLiC at #RC21Symposium, now incorporating FlexiConc clustering of concordance lines and more, especially having been involved in @michamahlberg.bsky.social‘s team for the prior CLiC 2.0 release myself ☺️
clic-fiction.com

At #RC21symposium, @apiperski.bsky.social and the amazing @schtepf.bsky.social 😅 are giving an introduction to the FlexiConc framework and Python implementation developed by @rc21project.bsky.social.

@violawiegand.bsky.social telling us about her corpus and investigation of surveillance landscapes #RC21symposium
Great work, looking forward to the forthcoming book

Now on: @violawiegand.bsky.social showing her work on surveillance signs in linguistic landscapes. #RC21symposium

Yay it’s @violawiegand.bsky.social speaking at #RC21symposium

Now Ulrich Heid formulates requirements on corpus queries and other exploration tools based on experience from three DH case studies. #RC21symposium

Screenshot introducing the RC21 symposium main topics: empirical studies, methodological discussions, and technical innovations, involving concordance analysis

Very happy to be at the #RC21Symposium in beautiful Erlangen. Looking forward to two days of insightful talks and engaging discussions