Welcome to DILARASS
Digital Technologies for Language Research and Applications Summer School
West University of Timişoara, Romania
19-23 June 2023
Have you ever wondered how you can study the language your friends use on line, or the latest show you have binged? Then this summer school is for you! DILARASS will offer you an introduction to the concepts, tools, and techniques of Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, and insights into the application of technology to support language learning, teaching and research.
Details
Why is DILARASS the right Summer School for the digital humanist?
DILARASS has been created at the intersection of two highly applicative and interdisciplinary domains: Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Digital Humanities (DH).
Everybody with an interest in the humanities and humanities related disciplines has come across studies or courses that involve digital tools and approaches. We live in a world where research and education are massively impacted by technological innovation. More and more software programs, platforms, applications and digital resources used in CL or DH studies are developed and launched every year, so that it becomes a challenge to keep pace with such rapid transformations.
At the same time, numerous students and researchers in the humanities (and not only) need introductory information which can help them build a basic understanding of the new digital approaches.
In DILARASS, we show participants first insights into the disciplinary knowledge of the two disciplines, we conduct hands-on workshops so that every participant can see how datasets are built and analysed or how different digital tools can be used.
Every year, we select topics that seem to be of interest to as many participants as possible, such as: introduction to corpus linguistics, corpora and technology in language learning and teaching, text analysis methods (e.g. readability, text complexity or sentiment analysis, multimodal discourse analysis), digital methods for cultural studies, or computational literature studies.
Who can apply to attend DILARASS?
If you are an international student (Bachelor, Masters of Doctoral level) or anybody with an interest in using digital methods in humanities, DILARASS is a great place to start learning about and test such methods. After DILARASS, you will be able to immediately implement what you have learned in research or teaching.
Who is organising DILARASS?
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DILARASS is organised by members of the CODHUS research centre (Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities) at the West University of Timisoara, Romania.
DILARASS is organised in the frame of the initiative WUT Summer School which has been organised since 2019. |
Where?
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DILARASS is organised in Timișoara, the European Capital of Culture 2023 .
Timișoara is located in Banat, a western of Romania, neighbouring and having numerous affinities with Transylvania. |
When?
19-23 June 2023
Facilities
- A certificate of completion of the course (1 ECTS credits);
- Course materials;
- Accommodation;
- Lunches;
- Promo kits.