Program

Monday (1. June):
  Arrival
20.00 Dinner. Presentation of the participants
21.00 Short walk
   
Tuesday (2. June):
09.15 - 10.00 Janne Bondi Johannessen: Welcome, Overview of course
10.15 - 12.00 Sjef Barbiers: Presentation of the online Dutch dialect infrastructure DynaSand. (Presentation)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.15 - 14.00 Short walk
14.15 - 15.45 Janne Bondi Johannessen: Spoken and written language corpora. (Presentation 1, presentation 2).
15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 - 18.00 Beáta Megyesi: On tagging and parsing I. (Presentation).
19.00 Dinner
20.30 Quiz
   
Wednesday (3. June):
09.15 - 10.00 Beáta Megyesi: On tagging and parsing II..
10.15 - 12.00 Technical staff: Grammatical tagging in practice. The students will learn how to train a statistical tagger
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 15.00 Walk to Feforkampen
15.15 - 17.00 Sjef Barbiers: Presentation of research done on the basis of the Dutch infrastructure DynaSand. (Presentation)
17.15 - 18.00 Wrapping up results from the practical tagging session
19.00 Dinner
20.30 Lavvo with open fire, refreshments etc
   
Thursday (4. June):
09.15 - 10.00 Janne Bondi Johannessen: Challenges in transcribing spoken language. (Presentation)
10.15 - 12.00 Technical staff: Transcription in practice. The students will learn how to transcribe using the programme Transcriber and authentic dialogue
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 15.00 Outdoor games
15.15 - 17.00 Øystein Alexander Vangsnes: Presentation of research using Norwegian infrastructure. (Presentation)
17.15 - 18.00 Wrapping up transcription session
19.00 Seminar dinner
   
Friday (5. June):
09.15 - 11.00 Elisabet Engdahl: Presentation of research using Scandinavian corpora. (Presentation)
11.15 - 12.00 Øystein Alexander Vangsnes and Janne Bondi Johannessen: How to assemble a corpus for Scandinavian. Using the ScanDiaSyn database and the Nordic Dialect Corpus as examples. (Presentation)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 15.00 Walk/swimming/jogging
15.15 - 18.00 Technical staff: Using corpora in practice. The students will learn to use corpora
19.00 Dinner
   
Saturday (6. June):
09.15 - 10.00 Elisabet Engdahl:Presentation of research using Scandinavian data. (Presentation)
10.00-10.30 Practical information, how to get credits, readings and essays
11.00 Bus departs
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PhD training course: Infrastructural tools for the study of linguistic variation
Fefor Høifjellshotell, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, 2.-6. June, 2009