Kalbotyra: Announcements
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description: Founded in 1958 and dedicated to publishing articles on synchronic and diachronic research on different languages as well as studies addressing cross-linguistic issues. Indexed in the Scopus database since 2021.
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items: The special issue of "Kalbotyra" 78 (2025)

The special issue of "Kalbotyra" 78 (2025)
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description: Towards an accessible and sound corpus methodology in research and teaching “Hello ChatGPT, how can I find appositions in the German reference corpus? Write me a search query in structured query language (SQL).” For linguists who work with empirical data, linguistic corpora are a valuable resource in teaching and research: They provide authentic language data on different topics and text types, which can be enriched with linguistic annotations on various levels and allow for linguistic phenomena to be queried and uncovered. However, using corpora is not trivial. Familiarizing oneself with the specific query syntax of different corpus tools and critically interpreting results often presents a challenge, and there is a lack of instructional materials suitable for users with little or no prior knowledge. In an effort to close this gap, we invite contributions on the following topics for this special issue: - empirical research cases that highlight how specific tools and corpora are employed for a concrete research question, - teaching scenarios which use various corpus and computational linguistics tools either “behind the scenes” (for creating material) or “on stage” (by instructors/students in the classroom), enabling students to use corpora in their own research, - challenges and solutions in the compilation and/or annotation of new private or public corpora for a specific research question or teaching scenario, - discussion papers that reflect on required methodological foundations for corpus linguistics, - empirical research on how generative AI can support the use or the creation of a corpus. If you would like to submit a contribution, please send us a working title by 30 June 2024 to vaiva.zeimantiene@flf.vu.lt and heike.zinsmeister@uni-hamburg.de We welcome contributions in German, English, or Lithuanian with a length of 15 to 20 pages (between 6000 and 8000 words). Further information about the submission process can be found here: https://www.journals.vu.lt/k…
creator: Kalbotyra
date: %2024-%05-%30