Symposium: Reading Concordances in the 21st Century
RC21 Project Symposium: 19-21 March 2025
Join us for the RC21 Project Symposium, where invited speakers and project team members will present their work on methodology and applications of concordance analysis:
- Empirical studies across diverse fields, including language learning, syntax, and discourse analysis.
- Methodological discussions on systematic approaches to concordance reading and their implications for research.
- Technical innovations, showcasing new algorithms and functions to make concordance analysis more flexible and effective.
For those new to concordance analysis, we are also holding a hands-on Training Day on 19 March.
Registration for all events is free, but spaces are limited. Kindly register in advance to secure your place.
Please note: Registration Deadline is closed. The registration deadline for the RC21 Project Symposium was February 19, 2025. Registration is now closed.
Event Programme:
Day 1: Thursday, 20 March
- 09:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Laurence Anthony, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
AI-Assisted Concordancing: From Search Support to Pattern Profiling - 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Ulrich Heid, University of Hildesheim
Query needs in text-based Digital Humanities projects - 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM – Coffee Break
- 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Viola Wiegand, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Concordancing the signage of surveillant landscapes - 12:15 PM – 01:00 PM
Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex, England
Fear and pride: Emotion talk in UK migration debates - 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM – Lunch Break (lunch provided)
- 02:30 PM – 03:15 PM
Alexander Piperski &
Stephanie Evert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
An introduction to FlexiConc - 03:15 PM – 04:00 PM
Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Construction Collocation: Identifying sequences of meaning
Day 2: Friday, 21 March
- 09:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Readability of concordances from perspectives of language teaching and learning - 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Patricia Ronan, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Concordances versus manual investigation, exploiting their strengths and weaknesses - 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM – Lightning Talks by Poster Presenters
- 11:30 AM – 02:00 PM – Poster Session and Lunch
- 02:00 PM – 02:45 PM
Valentin Werner, University of Bamberg, Germany
Using concordances in pop cultural linguistics - 02:45 PM – 03:30 PM
Marc Kupietz, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany
Scaling Concordancing: KorAP’s Goals, Key Features, and Extensibility Strategies - 03:30 PM – 04:15 PM
Nathan Dykes & Michaela Mahlberg, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Patterns of narrative fiction in English and German
Poster Session: Call for Papers
We invite contributions to the poster session on Friday, 21 March 2025. This is an opportunity for researchers, including M.A. students, to share their work on topics in corpus linguistics involving concordance reading.
Accepted Posters:
- Maria Ammari (Poznań): Integrating Concordancing into DDL for ESP: The ‘6 Is’ Framework
- Eugenia Diegoli (Bologna): Questioning the question mark: preliminary considerations from a web corpus of Japanese
- Annamária Fábián-Trost, Igor Trost (Bayreuth/ Passau): “Inclusion” and “accessibility” in Computer-Mediated-Communication for an inclusive transformation in digital societies – An approach from Human-Centered Data Science
- Julian Häußler (Darmstadt): Teaching Distributional Semantics Through Concordance Analysis
- Florian Keßler, Diane Donner, Shuyi Li (Erlangen): multiplyitbyxreadingconcordancesinalanguagewithoutwordorsentenceboundaries
- Dongeun Lee (Erlangen): Collocation Patterns of German Prepositions vor and hinter with Body Part Nouns
- Xinyao Lu (Erlangen): German Support Verb Constructions in Context Embeddings
- Maria Martha Nikijuluw (Ghent): Portrayal of Dutch Apology for War Atrocities in Indonesian Mass Media
- Elena Pleshakova (Bonn): Time-Series Approaches to the Classroom Discourse Research
- Nicolás Raths (Mainz): Reading and annotating concordances with AI: A pilot study
- Thomas Schmidt, Elena Frick (IDS Mannheim): Reading, listening to and watching concordances of audiovisual interaction corpora
Reading Concordances Training Day
Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 04:30 PM
What is the Training Day About?
Taking place one day before our symposium, the Training Day is a hands-on event. The course introduces the fundamentals of concordance analysis using KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays, bridging qualitative and quantitative research in text analysis.
- Key concepts like collocations and colligations.
- Concordance tools like AntConc, CLiC, and CQPweb.
- Hands-on strategies for sorting, selecting, and grouping concordance lines
- Introduction to FlexiConc, a computational library designed for integration with concordancing tools.
Note: Since the Training Day has a strong practical component, please bring a laptop!
Who is this course for?
The Training Day is ideal for students and early-career researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, computational social science, digital humanities, computer science, and related fields. No prior knowledge of corpus linguistics is required.
Schedule
- 09:30 – Registration and coffee
- 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Basics of concordance analysis
- 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM – Lunch break (lunch not provided)
- 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM – Identifying concordance reading strategies across disciplines
- 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM – Coffee
- 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM – Hands-on session with FlexiConc
- 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM – Reception
How to Register
Please note: Registration Deadline is closed.
The registration deadline for the RC21 Project Symposium was February 19, 2025. Registration is now closed.
Location:
Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen
Main Conference: Room 2.016
Coffee Breaks & Poster Session: Room 00.24
Contact for Assistance:
Please don’t hesitate to contact us at dhss-team@fau.de. Emails should include “RC21 symposium” in the subject line.