Location : Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade

Workshops

Workshop 1
The FrameNet Brasil Framework
Workshop 2
CLASSLA-Express 3.0
Workshop 3
TESLA: language resources
Workshop 4
TESLA: From Text to Knowledge Graphs

CLASSLA-express 3.0
workshops on using CLARIN.SI resources in language research

Spoken and web corpora in the analysis of language variation

We are pleased to announce that the Croatian Society for Applied Linguistics is once again collaborating with CLARIN.SI to organize the CLASSLA-Express workshop series.

Following the successful editions of CLASSLA-Express 1.0 and 2.0, CLASSLA-Express 3.0 introduces a new focus on spoken and web corpora and their role in the analysis of language variation.

Workshop content

The workshops offer hands-on work with spoken and web corpora. In the first part, participants will explore the ParlaSpeech parliamentary speech corpus using the NoSketchEngine concordancer, analyse concordances, and extract variables and speech features with the help of Praat.

To get a first look at the ParlaSpeech corpus, you can watch the following short video guides:
Introducing ParlaSpeech
Exploring ParlaSpeech

In the second part, participants will work with CLASSLA-web corpora, build subcorpora using the NoSketchEngineLog concordancer, and compare lexical patterns across different genres and domains.

To get familiar with CLASSLA-web corpora in advance, we recommend the following video guide:
Introducing CLASSLA-web

Participants will learn how to:

  • formulate corpus queries
  • analyse concordances and metadata
  • extract and interpret linguistic variables from concordance data
  • build subcorpora
  • compare lexical patterns
  • explore features of spoken language

Who is it for?

The workshops are intended for students, linguists, phoneticians, lexicographers, language teachers, digital humanities researchers, and anyone interested in corpus-based language research.

Workshops schedule 2026

October – Belgrade, Serbia (pre-conference workshop, JuDig)

Organizers

  • Ivana Filipović Petrović, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia
  • Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
  • Ivan Porupski, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • Isabell Furkert, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Tanja Samardžić, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
  • Kristina Ilić, Metropolitan University, Serbia
  • Robert Sviben, Institute of Croatian Language, Croatia

Participation is free of charge.
Registration will open soon!