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SUMMARY:Computational Dialectology - Jack Grieve\, Centre for Forensic Lin
 guistics\, Aston University
DTSTART:20130220T160000Z
DTEND:20130220T170000Z
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CONTACT:Bert Vaux
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I will discuss a series of dialect studie
 s where I have applied new computational approaches to the analysis of reg
 ional linguistic variation. These studies are computational in two senses.
  First\, as opposed to traditional dialect studies\, which are based on da
 ta collected through linguistic interviews\, in these studies I analyse co
 rpora of natural language and hit counts harvested from Google. Second\, a
 s opposed to traditional dialect studies where regional linguistic variati
 on is analysed by hand\, in these studies I analyse regional linguistic va
 riation using statistical techniques borrowed from geographic information 
 systems\, data mining\, and quantitative corpus linguistics. I will argue 
 that by adopting computational methods it is possible for regional linguis
 tic data to be collected and analysed with greater efficiency and precisio
 n than is possible using a traditional approach.
LOCATION:Keynes Seminar Room 1
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