Montclair State University

AAACL Symposium Schedule

 

Friday May 21, 2004

 

 

12:00 PM                                            Registration Opens

                                                            Lobby, Dickson Hall

 

 

Cohen Lounge

Chair: Angus Grieve-Smith

Brantl Lecture Hall

Chair: Alice Freed

2:00

 

 

Sheryl Leicher and Carson Maynard

Pragmatic Annotation of an Academic Spoken Corpus for Pedagogical Purposes

Annelie Ädel

Computer-assisted Methods for Analysing Metadiscourse

2:30

 

 

Matthew B O'Donnell and Stanley E. Porter

Linguistic Annotation and the Ancient Text

Christine Johansson. The Use of Relativizers across Gender and Speaker Roles: Explorations in 19th c. Trials, Letters and Drama

3:00

 

 

Philippe Martin

WinPitch Corpus: Text to Speech Alignment

María José García Vizcaíno

Using Oral Corpora in Contrastive Studies on Linguistic Politeness

3:30

Break

4:00

Chair: Alex Murzaku

Chair: Maria Jose Garcia Vizcaino

4:00

 

 

Liudmila Rychkova

The Concept of a National Corpus in Multilingual States

Andrea DeCapua, Diana Berkowitz, Diana Boxer. Talk Among Women: Intimacy, Dominance, and Personal Disclosures

4:30

 

 

Gregory Garretson and M. Catherine O'Connor. A Combined Automatic-and-Manual Method for Studying Discourse Features in Corpora

JoAnne Neff, Francisco Ballesteros, Emma Davouz, Francisco Martinez, Juan-Pedro Rica, Mercedes Diez, Dritina Alonso and Rosa Prieto. A functional-typological approach to error analysis: The ICLE error tagging project and Spanish EFL Writers

6:00

 

 

 

Dean's Reception 6:00-7:30

Russ Hall, Kops Lounge

Introductory Remarks: Eileen Fitzpatrick, Steve Seegmiller, Susana Sotillo

Montclair State University

 

Welcome Address: Richard Gigliotti

Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Montclair State University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                     Saturday, May 22, 2004

 

 

Cohen Lounge

Chair: Rita Simpson

Brantl Lecture Hall

Chair: Steve Seegmiller

9:15

 

 

David Lee. Humor in Spoken Academic Discourse.

Boyd Davis and Lisa Russell-Pinson.

One Corpus, Two Contexts: Intersections of Healthcare and Language Instruction

9:45

 

 

Wasima Shehzad. How to End an Introduction in a Computer Science Article: A Corpus-based Approach

Ulla Connor and Jing Gao. Semantic Variation in Persuasive Appeals of Fundraising Letters

10:15

 

 

Paul Deane and Derrick Higgins. Acquiring an Extensible Semantic Lexicon

Shuki Cohen. Using Corpus Linguistics to Construct Meaning-Sensitive Dictionaries of Emotional Language for Text Analysis

10:45

                                                          Coffee Break

11:15

Chair: Gregory Garretson

Chair: Georgette Jabbour

11:15

 

 

Leslie Barrett, David Greenberg, and Marc Schwarz. A Syntactic Feature Counting Method for Selecting Machine Translation Training Corpora

Christer Geisler. A multi-dimensional analysis of 19th century English

11:45

 

 

Jennifer Higgins. Prosodic Phrasing in Radio Broadcast News

Budsaba Kanoksilapatham. Linguistic Characterization of Rhetorical Moves: Multidimensional Analysis

12:15

                                                                   Break

12:30

Plenary Session

Rita Simpson

MICASE Project Director, University of Michigan

Corpora and Generalizability: The Case of Wh-clefts in Academic Speech

 

1:30-3:00

Lunch Break

2:30-3:30

DI 182

Demo:

Allison Nazimek and Elissa Cording. Using MonoConc to Examine Frequently Occurring Collocations in Four Literary Works

 

 

4-5

DI 182

Demo repeated

3:00

Cohen Lounge

Chair: Mary Call

Brantl Lecture Hall

Chair: Joan Bachenko

3:00

Georgette Jabbour

Do Pedagogic Corpora Exist?

Angus Grieve-Smith. The Role of Choices in Measuring Register and Genre Variation

3:30

 

 

Longxing Wei. Corpora as Inputs to Interlanguage Research

Juhani Rudanko. Variation in Complement Selection: a Case Study Based on Evidence from Large Corpora

4:00

 

 

Pieter de Haan and Kees van Esch. Assessing the Development of Foreign Writing Skills

Charles F. Meyer and Hongyin Tao.Gapped Coordinations in English Discourse and Grammar

4:30

                                                                    Break

5:00

 

 

Katharine Thomas and Susie Sehulster. Development of Lexical and Syntactic Complexity in Parent-Child Conversations

Sebastian van Delden.

Problematic Syntactic Patterns

 

5:30

 

 

Yuri Tambovtsev. The Total of the Phonostatistical Distances as an Indicator of the Compactness of the Language Taxons

Alexander Murzaku. Analyzing Albanian Deictics on the Web

 

 

 

Saturday 7:30 PM Private Dinner at Dopo Teatro, 125 West 44th St Manhattan. $35 per person.

 

 

 

 

 

Cohen Lounge
Chair: Ken Church

Brantl Lecture Hall

Chair: Pieter de Haan

9:15

 

 

A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Register Variation in Spanish Mark Davies.

Juan Zhao. Corpus-Aided Approach to the Acquisition of Articles in ESL Instruction

9:45

Joan Bachenko. Hedges in the Language of Diverse Criminal Statements: a Preliminary Study.

 

Yi-Ling Lillian Yeh.

Learning from Errors: Using Learner Corpora in EFL Teaching

10:15

William H. Fletcher. Phrases in English: Present and Future of an Online Database for English Phraseology

Steve Seegmiller and Eileen Fitzpatrick. Error Tagging Agreement in 3 L2 Registers

10:45

Mark Davies. A joint BNC/WordNet Database: the Best of Both Worlds

Margrit V. Zinggeler. "GRIMMATIK": German Grammar with the Magic of the Brothers Grimm Tales and the Online Grimm Corpus

11:15

 

Coffee Break

 

11:45

 

Plenary Session

 

Kenneth Ward Church

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Inc.

 

Speech and Language Processing: Where have we been and where are we going

 

12:45

 

Closing Statements: Eileen Fitzpatrick, Steve Seegmiller, Susana Sotillo