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Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication ACLC

Corpus-based and/or Computational Approaches to Language and Literature (CCALL)

We count systematic patterns in texts or sentences. Corpus-based methods can help answer questions in linguistics, literary studies and other humanities fields where text is data. We contribute to research in these fields by bringing together people from these different disciplines and combining research methods, including computational and multidisciplinary approaches.

Key objectives

  1. Answer questions in linguistics, literary studies and related fields in the humanities by using corpus-based methods.
  2. To promote collaboration and innovation by discussing projects, project plans, funding opportunities and research related topics (methods, statistics, publication).
  3. To promote multidisciplinary research in humanities.

Impact

Humanity’s linguistic and cultural output is increasingly produced in the form of digital text. This vast record of how our language is naturally used for communication and conveying cultural concepts is an invaluable source of information, provided that we have adequate methods to study it. Analyses of patterns and structures in large collections of these data can have applications in language teaching, automatic language and speech technology, and archival practices. We can observe what successful communication looks like in practice or learn which works of literature have been impactful based on references made to it. We contribute to research in these fields by bringing together people from various disciplines and combining research methods, including computational and multidisciplinary approaches. 

Events

CCALL organizes monthly informal meetings where members present their work or research plans. Besides these meetings we also organize practical/theoretical workshops about research tools and methods and reading groups. 

Coordinator and group members

Coordinators: Martje Wijers (ACLC) & Jelke Bloem (ILLC)

Members: Paul Boersma, Robert Cloutier, Charles Forceville, Federico Gobbo, Wenwen Guan, Pegah Faghiri, Lois Kemp, Martijn Kingma, Viktorija Kostadinova, Eric Metz, Menno Reijven, Bertus van Rooy, Marieke Schouwstra, Arjen Versloot, Jean Wagemans, Jia Zhangjingwen

External members: Hongmei Fang, Rudolph Glitz, Leon van Wissen