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2011

2011, November 8-11
Frieda Steurs, Hendrik J. Kockaert Definition in terminology. International Workshop (upcoming; workshop).
Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.

2011, September 24
Tom ruette, Kris Heylen Degrees of semantic control in aggregated lexical variation
Comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, Gothenburg

2011, September 9
Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts Constructional spaces in contrast: Periphrastic causatives in Dutch and English (paper).
44th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño.

2011, September 8-11
Alena Anishchanka, Dirk Speelman Beyond basicness: contextual constraints on the use of basic color terms in advertising.
44th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño.

2011, September 8-11
Eline Zenner, Gitte Kristiansen The Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics of Borrowing (upcoming; workshop).
44th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño.

2011, September 8-11
Eline Zenner A usage-based onomasiological approach to measuring the success of loanwords.
44th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño.

2011, September 8-11
Weiwei Zhang, Dirk Speelman Metonymic conceptualization of WOMAN in the history of Chinese: A usage-based approach
44th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño.

2011, September 8-11
Frieda Steurs, Hendrik J. Kockaert The Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics of Borrowing (workshop).
44th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño.

2011, July 19-23
Alena Anishchanka, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Specificity of color naming and categorization in advertising
4th International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, Osnabrück (Germany)

2011, July 11-17
Weiwei Zhang, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts (Non)metonymic expressions for GOVERNMENT in Chinese
11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Xi'an, China

2011, July 1
Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman Tangled. Interaction of linguistic and extralinguistic factors in variation of Dutch causative constructions (paper).
6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, University of Freiburg (FRIAS).

2011, June 28
Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman Attacking two issues in lexicon-based sociolectometric studies: biased variable sampling and individual pattern loss
ICLAVE, Freiburg

2011, June 17-21
Eline Zenner, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts (upcoming)
ISLE 2011, Boston.

2011, June 16
Jack Grieve A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Spoken Dutch
Stylistics across Disciplines, Leiden

2011, May 26
Natalia Levshina Doe wat je niet laten kan: A usage-based study of Dutch causative constructions (maxi-presentation).
K.U. Leuven, Department of Linguistics.

2011, May 5-7
Alena Anishchanka, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Metonymy in denominal color names
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM): “Metaphor across Time and Genre”. Almagro, Spain

2011, May 4-7
Weiwei Zhang, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts The diachronic and stylistic variation of Chinese metonymies: An onomasiological study
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM): “Metaphor across Time and Genre”. Almagro, Spain

2011, March 28
Alena Anishchanka, Natalia Levshina, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Shades of salience: multivariate analysis of prototypicality effects in color terms
Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-4), Berlin

2011, March 28
Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman Aggregating and interpreting lexical alternation variables. Benefits of Weighted Multidimensional Scaling for lectal categorization
QITL-4, Berlin

2011, March 25
Natalia Levshina, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts Corpus-based analysis of near-synonymous constructions: Larger, faster and more objective (paper).
Construction Grammar of Dutch workshop, Leiden.

2011, March 24-26
Alena Anishchanka, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Contextual effects in color category construal
Meaning, Context and Cognition, Lodz (Poland)

2011, March 2
Margaux Smets A U-DOP approach to modeling language acquisition.
Taal en Spraak Colloquium, Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Nijmegen.
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2011, February 14
Ann Bertels Séminaires : Statistique lexicale et analyse de corpus.
Université de Lille 3 (France)

2011, February 11
Margaux Smets, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts Subtrees as a new type of context in Word Space Models
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 21, Ghent.
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2011, February
Jack Grieve A comparison of statistical techniques for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation.
Cross-linguistic and language-internal variation in text and speech: focus on the joint analysis of multiple characteristics, Freiburg, Germany

2011, February
Dirk Geeraerts and Tom Ruette Lexical Sociolectometry
Cross-linguistic and language-internal variation in text and speech: focus on the joint analysis of multiple characteristics, Freiburg, Germany

2011, January 8
Jack Grieve A dialect survey of grammatical variation in written Standard American English.
American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2010

2010, November 19
Dirk Geeraerts Usage-based testing of linguistic hypotheses: The case of Dutch causatives.
Interdisciplinary conference 'Communication et contexte - Context-bound Communication'. CELTA Sorbonne, Paris, France.

2010, November
Jack Grieve, Speelman, D., Geeraerts, D. The emergence of regional linguistic variation: A computer Simulation.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, San Antonio, Texas.

2010, October 29
Alena Anishchanka, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts From rose pink to morning calm: descriptive and evocative color names in advertising.
Re-thinking synonymy: semantic sameness and similarity in languages and their description, Helsinki University, Finland.
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2010, October 29
Dirk Geeraerts Criteria for meaning discrimination and the identification of synonymy.
Symposium 'Re-thinking Synonymy'. Helsinki, Finland.
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2010, October 28-30
Eline Zenner, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Lexical Variation and Choice: A usage-based perspective on (semi-)synonymy.
Re-thinking synonymy: semantic sameness and similarity in languages and their description, Helsinki.
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2010, October 19
Dirk Geeraerts Rationalistische en romantische modellen in het tussentaaldebat.
Symposium 'De Manke Usurpator'. Antwerpen.
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2010, October 1
Dirk Geeraerts The scope of Cognitive Sociolinguistics.
7th AELCO conference 'Figuring the world: Cognitive mechanisms of thought and discourse'. Toledo, Spain.

2010, September 16
De Hertog Dirk, Kris Heylen, Dirk Speelman The corpus-based identification of lexical variation: A refinement of Stable Lexical Marker Analysis
International Conference on Pluricentric Languages: Linguistic Variation and Sociocognitive Dimensions, Braga (Portugal)

2010, September 15
Dirk Geeraerts Sociolectometry and pluricentric languages.
International Conference on Pluricentric Languages. Braga, Portugal.
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2010, September 15
Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts Toward a multivariate account of Belgian Dutch and Netherlandic Dutch
International Conference on Pluricentric Languages

2010, September 15
Dirk De Hertog, Kris Heylen, Dirk Speelman A Corpus-based Identification of Lexical Variation
International Conference on Pluricentric Languages

2010, September 9
Dirk Geeraerts Onomasiological salience: a well-entrenched concept.
DGKL4. 4th Conference of the German Association for Cognitive Linguistics. Bremen, Germany.
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2010, September 9
Dirk Geeraerts Semantics in the age of corpora.
DGKL4. 4th Conference of the German Association for Cognitive Linguistics. Bremen, Germany.
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2010, September 5
Natalia Levshina and Dirk Geeraerts Constructing the Constructicon Empirically: Experiments with Dutch causatives
6th International Conference on Construction Grammar, Prague

2010, September
Jack Grieve A regional dialect survey of continuous grammatical variation in written Standard American English.
Presented at the 2010 Sociolinguistic Symposium, Southampton, United Kingdom.

2010, September
Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Sorting out variables and their variation
Presented at the 2010 Sociolinguistic Symposium, Southampton, United Kingdom.

2010, August 17
Dirk De Hertog, Kris Heylen, Dirk Speelman, Hendrik Kockaert A Variational Linguistics Approach to Term Extraction
Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference, Dublin

2010, August 13
De Hertog Dirk, Kris Heylen, Hendrik Kockaert A variational linguistic approach to term extraction
Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference 2010, Dublin

2010, August 13
Heylen, Kris, Hendrik Kockaert The TermWise Knowledge Platform: an efficient translation and terminology management suite for legal translation in Belgium
Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference 2010, Dublin

2010, July 7
Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman A multifactorial usage-based Construction Grammar: The case of Dutch causative constructions
3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Hatfield, UK

2010, June 30-July 03
Weiwei Zhang,Dirk Speelman,Dirk Geeraerts Chained metonymies in Chinese compounds.
Conference '8th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor',Amsterdam.

2010, June 14-18
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman Pimp my Lexis. Determinants in Socio-Lexicology: the Case of English Loans. (poster presentation)
Summer School 'Lot Summer School', Nijmegen.
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2010, June 14-18
Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Multivariate and aggregated (poster presentation)
Summer School 'Lot Summer School', Nijmegen.

2010, May 3-7
Dirk Geeraerts Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics.
MA Course. Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

2010, April 29
Dirk Geeraerts Belgisch-Nederlands sociolinguïstisch benaderd.
Symposium 'Verkavelingsvlaams'. KANTL, Gent.
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2010, April 29
Tom Ruette Privacy issues for demographic profiling with linguistic means
Seminar at COSIC privacy and cryptography research unit K.U.Leuven

2010, April 18
Heylen, Kris, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts Retrieving semantically similar words in Dutch. A comparison of type- and token-based distributional models
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 20, Utrecht (Nederland)

2010, March 23-26
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman What makes a catchphrase catchy? Possible Determinants in the Borrowability of English Catchphrases in Dutch.
Formulaic Language Research Network Conference, Paderborn.
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2010, March 18
Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Towards a 3D-Grammar: Variation of Dutch causative constructions
34th LAUD Symposium, Landau, Germany

2010, March 18
Tom Ruette, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts What's going on? Groups of interacting people in Usenet
34th LAUD Symposium, Landau, Germany

2010, March 18-20
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman From bitches to lovers. The usage-based onomasiology of anglicisms.
Identifying, Describing Lexical Borrowings, Liège.
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2010, March 15-18
Weiwei Zhang,Dirk Speelman,Dirk Geeraerts Variation in the distribution of (non-)metonymic capital names: A usage-based account.
Symposium '34th International LAUD Symposium Cognitive Sociolinguistics', Landau.

2010, March 15
Dirk Geeraerts Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Domains and directions.
34th LAUD Conference 'Cognitive Sociolinguistics'. Landau, Germany.

2010, March 15
Heylen, Kris, Yves Peirsman, Dirk Geeraerts The bottom-up identification of semantic verb classes in corpora:Combining contextual and lectal information
34th International LAUD Symposium: Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation in its Structural, Conceptual and Cultural Dimensions, University of Koblenz-Landau

2010, March
Friginal, E., Jack Grieve Linguistic variation among internet blogs: A corpus-based, multi-dimensional analysis.
2010 TESOL Annual Conference, AAAL Special Session, Boston, Massachusetts.

2010, February 10
Heylen, Kris Corpus-based Modelling of Lexical Variation: Methods and Applications
Linguistic Engineering Applications van de Master in Artificial Intelligence, K.U.Leuven

2010, January 5
Tom Ruette Convergentie en Divergentie in het Nederlands
Paneldiscussion at the Free University of Berlin

2009

2009, November 26
Heylen, Kris HPC and the Creation of Resources for Linguistic Research
HPC Gebruikersdag K.U.Leuven, Leuven

2009, November 18
Ann Bertels Etudier la sémantique des termes techniques : des théories à la pratique.
8ème conférence internationale Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle, Toulouse (France)

2009, November 5-7
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman The Socio-Pragmatics of Anglicisms: A barren wasteland?
CLAVIER 09 - Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation, Modena.
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2009, November 5-7
Weiwei Zhang,Dirk Speelman,Dirk Geeraerts How do the Chinese people conceptualize the world: A metonymic perspective.
Conference 'CLAVIER 09 - Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation', Modena.

2009, September 11
Dirk Geeraerts and Leen Impe Language attitudes and comprehension in a pluricentric language: the case of Dutch.
SLE. Annual Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europeae. Lisbon, Portugal.
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2009, September 10
Ann Bertels and Serge Verlinde Enrichir les descriptions lexicographiques à partir de corpus parallèles et ciblés : augmenter et co.
6èmes Journées de Linguistique de Corpus, Lorient (France)

2009, September 9-12
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman Cultural implications of variation and change: An analysis of English job titles in two varieties of Dutch.
42nd Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Lisboa.

2009, September 5
Dirk Geeraerts Belgisch Nederlands en Nederlands Nederlands.
Seminarium 'Nederlandse Taalkunde' van de Nederlandse Taalunie. Leuven.

2009, July 29
Heylen, Kris Distributional Models of Verb Meaning: Syntactic versus Lexical Contexts
Workshop Distributional Semantics beyond Concrete Concepts (DiSCo), 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-2009), Amsterdam

2009, June 25
Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman The disciplined Dutch and the hedonistic Flemish? Disctinctive collexeme analysis of causative constructions in Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch
5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE5), Copenhagen

2009, May 29 - Jun 4
Dirk Geeraerts Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics.
The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. Beihang University, Beijing, China.

2009, May 28
Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Almost the same meaning, almost the same language: Collostructional analysis of Dutch doen and laten causative constructions
3rd International Conference of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo), Paris

2009, May 16
Tom Ruette "De Standaard" en "Het Belang van Limburg". Elke krant zijn eigen taalvarieteit?
BKL Taaldag, Brussel

2009, May 11
Heylen, Kris, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman, Yves Peirsman Modelling Word Meaning in Semantic Vector Space. Which context dimensions model which semantic relations?
Interdisciplinary Lectures On Categorization and Concept Representation, CONCAT onderzoeksgroep, Leuven

2009, April 24
Heylen, Kris Quantitative Lexicology and its Terminological Applications
Corpus linguistics serving research in terminology and translation aan het Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes, Haute École de Bruxelles, Brussel

2009, April 20-24
Dirk Geeraerts Multidimensional models of lexical polysemy.
PhD Course. Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain.

2009, March 27
Heylen, Kris Sem.metrix: Modelleringstools voor Woordbetekenis en Woordgebruik
Studiedag ICT in de Humane Wetenschappen, Leuven

2009, March 23
Heylen, Kris Supercomputing and Linguistics
Gastlezing op het Launch Event van het Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum (VSC), Leuven

2009, March 9-13
Dirk Geeraerts Cognitive Sociolinguistics.
PhD Course. Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

2009, February 26
Dirk Geeraerts Deliteralization and the birth of emotion.
Workshop of the FOCUS Foundation. Serock, Poland.
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2009, February 6
Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman. Causative-prone or Causative-proof? A Study of Semantic Features of Effected Predicates in Dutch Causative Constructions.
Verb Typologies Revisited, Ghent.

2009, January 30
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Language Management. Socio-culturele determinanten in het gebruik van Engels in Nederlandse Vacatures.
Conference 'BKL Taaldag 2009', Brussel.

2009, January 30
Dirk Geeraerts Decontextualisation and recontextualisation: Thirty years of Cognitive Linguistics.
Conference 'History of Cognitive Linguistics', Société d'Histoire et d'Epistémologie des Sciences du Language, Paris.
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2009, January 22
Yves Peirsman and Dirk Geeraerts Modelling Lexical Variation with Word Space Models.
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands.

2009, January 22
Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman and Dirk Geeraerts Bootstrapping Automatic Synonymy Extraction.
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands.

2009, January 22
Tom Ruette and Dirk Speelman Automatic Text Categorization: Adding Syntactic Knowledge.
Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009, Groningen, the Netherlands.

2009, January 17
Dirk Geeraerts La présence de la linguistique du français dans la linguistique cognitive
Journée thématique 'Grands courants et chemins de travers de la linguistique cognitive'. Société de Linguistique de Paris, Paris.

2008

2008, December 18
Ann Bertels Etude sémantique et corpus spécialisés : une double analyse quantitative
Invited speaker, Workshop "corpus spécialisés", Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Toulouse, France.

2008, November 21
Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Objective and Subjective Determinants of Mutual Comprehensibility between Dutch Language Varieties.
Guest lecture for the CLCG Linguistic Colloquium, Groningen.

2008, October 22
Dirk Geeraerts Schmidt redux: How systematic is the system if variation is rampant?
AELCO 6, Castellón de la Plana.

2008, October 20
Dirk Geeraerts Bringing Schuchardt to the 21st century
FRIAS Workshop 'Constructions and Variation', Freiburg im Breisgau.

2008, September 30
Leen Impe and Dirk Geeraerts Mutual intelligibility in the Low Countries - A cognitive sociolinguistic approach
Cognitive Linguistics, Dubrovnik.

2008, September 30
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Style, Meaning and Identity. The use of Colloquial Belgian Dutch in 'Expeditie Robinson'
Cognitive Linguistics, Dubrovnik.

2008, September 9
Tom Ruette Thematische tekstcategorisatie
Internal QLVL meeting

2008, August 29
Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman and Caroline Gevaert How anger rose
ICHEL 10, München

2008, August 14
Yves Peirsman Word Space Models of Semantic Similarity and Relatedness
Student Session of ESSLLI-2008, Hamburg.

2008, August 7
Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts Size Matters: Tight and Loose Context Definitions in English Word Space Models
Lexical Semantics workshop at ESSLLI-2008, Hamburg.

2008, August 5
Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Concept characteristics and lexical heterogenity in dialects
Methods in Dialectology 13, Leeds.

2008, August 4
Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Mutual intelligibility between Flemings and Dutchmen: linguistic and attitudinal determinants
Methods in dialectology 13, Leeds

2008, July 14
Yves Peirsman and Dirk Geeraerts Modelling Language Perception on the Basis of Corpus Data
Language, Culture and Mind III, Odense.

2008, July 12
Ann Bertels Automatiser et quantifier l’analyse sémantique du français technique
1er Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF-08), Paris.

2008, July 7
Leen Impe, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman What did you say? A comparative study on the intelligibility of various Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch language varieties
International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Leuven.

2008, July 7
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Saving the Other. Contrastive Pragmatics in 'Expeditie Robinson'
International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Leuven.

2008, June 27-30
Heylen, Kris, Yves Peirsman, Dirk Geeraerts en Dirk Speelman Modelling Word Similarity: an Evaluation of Automatic Synonymy Extraction Algorithms.
Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'08), Marrakech (Marokko)

2008, June 26
Leen Impe Mapping the Mutual Intelligibility of Dutch Language Varieties: a Lexical Decision Experiment
Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Ghent.

2008, May 30
Dirk Geeraerts Delimiting and defining metonymy from a cognitive-linguistic perspective
Panel discussion, RaAM7, Cáceres.

2008, May 30
Yves Peirsman, Simon De Deyne, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts The Construction and Evaluation of Word Space Models
LREC-2008, Marrakech.

2008, May 30
Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman andamp; Dirk Speelman Modelling Word Similarity. An Evaluation of Automatic Synonymy Extraction Algorithms
LREC-2008, Marrakech.

2008, May 22
Tom Ruette Automatische Tekstcategorizatie. Hoe kan de taalkunde helpen? (Automatic Text Categorization: linguistics to the rescue?).
Studentencongres, Berlin.

2008, May 16
Ann Bertels Monosémie et corpus technique : une remise en question quantitative
Workshop 'Do terms make sense? Terminology and Cognition', Erasmushogeschool, Brussel.

2008, May 14
Eline Zenner and Dirk Geeraerts Mense van mijne leeftijd. Generatiegebonden tussentaalgebruik in Expeditie Robinson
Colloquium 'Jong Nederlands', Antwerpen.

2008, May 13
Dirk Geeraerts Deliteralization and metaphorical reclassification
Workshop “Organizing the world of Knowledge", Orientalisches Institut, Vienna.

2008, April 26
Leen Impe Babel in Vlaanderen? Een experimenteel onderzoek naar onderlinge verstaanbaarheid tussen Vlamingen
Annual Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Brussels.

2008, April 26
Kris Heylen, Yves Peirsman and Dirk Geeraerts Corpusonderzoek van betekenis: Over de relatie tussen lexicale semantiek en context
Annual Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Brussels.

2008, April 26
Eline Zenner, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Tussentaal in 'Expeditie Robinson': contextgerichte of sprekergerichte variatie?
Annual Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Brussels.

2008, April 4
Leen Impe Mutual intelligibility of Dutch language varieties: linguistic and extra-linguistic determinants
Sociolinguistics Symposium, Amsterdam.

2008, March 19
Yves Peirsman and Kris Heylen Dutch Word Space Models: Context Selection and Evaluation Methods
Guest lecture at the Colloquium Series of the Department of Language and Speech, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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2008, March 14
Ann Bertels Sémantique quantitative et corpus technique : des analyses statistiques aux interprétations linguistiques
Presentation at JADT 2008, Lyon, France.

2008, March 12
Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Speelman Putting things in order: First and second order context models for the calculation of semantic similarity
Presentation at JADT 2008, Lyon, France.
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2008, March 12
Peirsman Yves, Kris Heylen en Dirk Speelman Putting things in order. First and second order context models for the calculation of semantic similarity
JADT 2008, Lyon (Frankrijk)

2008, February 26
Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman Hoe je betekenis uit context afleidt: Corpusgebaseerde modellen van lexicale semantiek
Guest lecture at the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL), Leiden, The Netherlands.

2008, February 22
Dirk Geeraerts and Eline Zenner The social pragmatics of identity and informality
EPICS III, Seville

2007

2007, December 14
Dirk Geeraerts Collocations and Clines. Questions for a Quantitative, Corpus-based Approach to Multiword Expressions
Keynote lecture at the workshop Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2007, December 7
Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman Automatic Thesaurus Extraction: Comparing context models
Presentation at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007
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2007, December 4
Yves Peirsman, Eline Zenner and Kris Heylen Het Sem·metrixproject: Een stand van zaken
Internal QLVL meeting

2007, November 27
Eline Zenner Tussentaal: identiteit en informaliteit: Een spannende thriller
Internal QLVL meeting

2007, November 8
Dirk Geeraerts, Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman Congresverslag ICLC 10 in Kraków
Internal QLVL meeting

2007, October 26
Gert De Sutter and Dirk Geeraerts Methodologische, descriptieve en theoretische aspecten van een taalgebruiksgebaseerde grammatica
Lecture at the 1e Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2007, October 26
Dirk Geeraerts The birth of emotion
Lecture for the Research Seminar on Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Leuven.

2007, September 13-15
Ann Bertels Etude sémantique du vocabulaire spécifique dans quatre sous-corpus techniques
Presentation at the 5th Journées de Linguistique de Corpus 2007 (JLC), Lorient, France.

2007, August 21
Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Speelman Finding semantically related words in Dutch. Co-occurrences versus syntactic contexts
Presentation at the CoSMo workshop, held in conjunction with Context-07, Roskilde, Denmark.

2007, August 20-24
Peirsman Yves, Kris Heylen en Dirk Speelman Finding semantically similar words in Dutch. Co-occurrences versus syntactic contexts.
Workshop on Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models (CoSMo 2007): Beyond Words and Documents, onderdeel van CONTEXT 07, Roskilde (Denemarken)

2007, August 18
Leen Impe Flemings and Dutchmen: what did they say?
Presentation during the HISON Summerschool (16-23 August), Metochi, Lesbos

2007, July 27-30
Yves Peirsman and Kris Heylen The sem·metrix Project: Towards the large-scale measurement of lexical variation.
Presentation at the Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL-07), Birmingham, UK
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2007, July 27-30
Peirsman Yves en Kris Heylen The Sem.metrix Project: Towards the Large-Scale Measurement of Lexical Variation
Corpus Linguistics 2007, Birmingham (VK)

2007, July 15-20
Dirk Geeraerts Contextualization and methodology. Thirty years of Cognitive Linguistics (and beyond)
Plenary lecture. 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

2007, July 15-20
Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman Heterodox concept features and lexical heterogeneity in dialects
Presentation at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference.

2007, July 15-20
Dirk Geeraerts Cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics: Discussion
Invited discussion at theWorkshop Historical Linguitsics, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

2007, July 15-20
Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen and Yves Peirsman The state of the art in Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Achievements and challenges
Presentation at the Cognitive Sociolinguistics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland

2007, July 15-20
Dylan Glynn and Kerstin Fischer Usage-Based Cognitive Semantics: A Quantitative Approach
Theme Session at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland

2007, July 15-20
Dylan Glynn Testing the hypothesis. Confirmatory statistical techniques for multifactorial data in Cognitive Semantics.
Presentation at the Usage-Based Cognitive Semantics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland

2007, July 15-20
Dylan Glynn The semantics of extralinguistic variation. A quantitative study of the effects of dialect on polysemy
Presentation at the Cognitive Sociolinguistics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.

2007, July 15-20
Dylan Glynn Perception and Grammatical Profiling. The complex interaction between linguistic structure and iconic motivation in Cognitive Grammar
Presentation at the Motivation in Language Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.

2007, July 15-20
Kris Heylen Analyzing constructional pragmatics: a usage-based study of German word order constructions.
Presentation at the Usage-Based Cognitive Semantics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland
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2007, July 15-20
Yves Peirsman and Dirk Geeraerts Facets, zones and prototype-based metonymy.
Presentation at the Theme Session 'What do we want to call a metonymy', 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland

2007, July 15-20
Yves Peirsman and Kris Heylen The sem·metrix project. An automation of the profile-based approach to onomasiological variation.
Presentation at the Cognitive Sociolinguistics Theme Session, 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10), Kraków, Poland.

2007, July 8-13
Koen Plevoets In-between spoken and standard language: Colloquial Belgian Dutch.
Presentation at the 10th IPrA Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2007, June 17-19
Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman The sem·metrix Project: Scaling up the profile-based measurement of lexical variation
Presentation at the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE-4)
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2007, June 17-19
Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts The effect of concept features on regional lexical variation
Presentation at the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE-4)

2007, June 17-19
Leen Impe An attitudinal mixed-guise study on interlanguage in Flanders.
Presentation at the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE-4)

2007, June 17-20
Heylen, Kris en Yves Peirsman The Sem.metrix Project: Scaling up the Profile-Based Measurement of Lexical Variation
Head organizer of New Ways of Analysing Lexical Variation, part of the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 4), Nicosia (Cyprus)

2007, May 15
Dirk Geeraerts The Logic of Language Models: Rationalist and Romantic Ideologies and their Avatars
Invited lecture. Hongkong University, Department of English.

2007, May 11
Dirk Geeraerts Methodology and lectal variation in Cognitive Linguistics
Plenary lecture. Changsha (China), 2nd Conference of the China Cognitive Linguistics Association.

2007, May 10-12
Dylan Glynn Usage-Based Polysemy. Corpus-Driven Techniques for the study of semantic structure.
Presentation at Typology, Gesture, and Sign. Second International AFLiCo Conference Lille, France.

2007, May 5
Leen Impe Vlamingen en hun (tussen)taal - een attitudineel mixed-guise onderzoek.
Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Ghent, Belgium

2007, May 5
Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman Het sem·metrix-project: de profielgebaseerde meting van lexicale variatie op een grotere schaal.
Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Ghent, Belgium
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2007, May 5
Yves Peirsman De berekening van semantische gelijkenis op basis van euroWordNet en Wikipedia.
Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Ghent, Belgium.

2007, April 25
Heylen, Kris Wortstellung und Grammatikalisierung: Die Abfolge von nominalem Subjekt und pronominalem Objekt im Mittelfeld als Fallstudie
gastcollege aan de Universiteit Antwerpen in het kader van het vak FLWTLD0310 Grammaticalisatie en Taalverandering

2007, March 23
Leen Impe Mutual intelligibility of language varieties in the Low Countries: linguistic and attitudinal determinants.
Presentation at the BVTL Conference, Leuven

2007, February 26
Dirk Geeraerts Prototype semantics in practice
Lecture series. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of English Language and Linguistics.

2007, January 10
Kris Heylen and Yves Peirsman The sem·metrix project. Scaling up the profile-based measurement of lexical variation.
Presentation at the sem·metrix kick-off workshop, Leuven, Belgium.

2007, January 10
Heylen, Kris en Yves Peirsman Het sem.metrix-project: Lexicale variatie meten op een grotere schaal
Kick-off-workshop van het sem.metrix-project (OT3H051085), Leuven

2006

2006, December 15
Heylen, Kris Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based analysis
CogLing-dag 2, Leuven

2006, December 14
Dirk Geeraerts Plenary lecture
30th AEDEAN conference in Huelva, Spain.

2006, November 9
Koen Plevoets Colloquial Belgian Dutch: the case of the "tussentaal".
Presentation at NWAV 35: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Variation. Columbus, Ohio, USA.

2006, October 12
Dylan Glynn Clusters, Correspondences, and Polysemy. A comparative study of two exploratory statistical techniques for the description of semantic variation.
Semantik i Fokus. University of Lund, Sweden.

2006, October 6
Dylan Glynn Frames, Fields, and Parasynonymy. Developing usage-based methodology for Cognitive Semantic
Presentation at the theme session "Cognitive-linguistic approaches: what can we gain by computational treatment of data?". Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Muenchen, Germany

2006, October 6
Dirk Geeraerts On the importance of incorporating lectal factors in usage-based linguistics. A corpus analysis of make and let causatives in Dutch
Presentation at the Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Muenchen, Germany.

2006, September 26
Dylan Glynn Semasiology, Methodology, And Variation. Integrating the social element into cognitive linguistics
Presentation at the Third Russian Cognitive Linguistics Congress, Tambov, Russia.

2006, September 8
Dagmar Divjak An Experimental Approach to Complex Events in Slavic
Oral presentation at the Slavic Linguistic Society Conference, Bloomington IN, USA.

2006, August 26
Dirk Geeraerts Lectures
Intercultural Pragmatics Summer School in Shanghai.

2006, July 19
Dirk Geeraerts Prototypes, stereotypes, and semantic norms.
Conference “Language, Culture, and Mind”. Paris, France.

2006, July 6
Stefania Marzo, Koen Plevoets and Gert De Sutter Individual presentations
Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 in Limerick.

2006, June 20
Dirk Geeraerts Towards a multifactorial grammar.
Invited lecture series. PhD course “Lexicon and Grammar”. Bergen, Norway.

2006, June 16
Kris Heylen Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based study of German
Presentation at the the International Conference and Constituting Meeting of the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association (SweCLA) in Umeå (Sweden)
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2006, June 16
Dylan Glynn Fields, Constructions and Metaphors. The complex place of metaphors between lexical and syntactic semantics
Presentation at the the International Conference and Constituting Meeting of the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association

2006, June 15-17
Heylen, Kris Word order variants Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based case study of German
International Conference and Constituting Meeting of the Swedish Cognitive Linguistics Association. Umeå (Zweden)

2006, June 10
Dirk Geeraerts Lectal factors and the multivariate nature of linguistic phenomena
2nd Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science. St Petersburg, Russia

2006, June 9
Dagmar Divjak and Laura A. Janda How to Avoid Assigning Agency in Russian: An Experiment
Oral presentation at the Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2006, June 9
Dagmar Divjak and Stefan Th. Gries Ways of Trying in Russian. Clustering Behavioral Profiles
Poster presentation at the Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2006, June 2
Yves Peirsman Quantitative approaches to metonymy
Presentation at Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2, Osnabrück, Germany

2006, June 2
Gert De Sutter Descriptive, methodological and theoretical issues in syntactic variation research: A multivariate corpus analysis of word order variation in Dutch clause final verb clusters
Presentation at Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2, Osnabrück, Germany.
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2006, May 20
Kris Heylen Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: A corpus-based case study of German
Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium.

2006, May 20
Gert De Sutter Groene vs. rode woordvolgorde: een poging tot verklaring
Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium.

2006, May 20
Yves Peirsman Liever lui dan moe. Economische benaderingen in automatische metonymieherkenning
Presentation at the annual Language Day of the Belgian Society of Linguistics, Leuven, Belgium.

2006, May 20
Heylen, Kris Word order variants Word order variants as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based study of German
Annual meeting Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek. Leuven

2006, May 5
Dirk Geeraerts Over de verklaring van de Vlaamse tussentaal.
Invited lecture. Karoly Gaspar University, Department of Dutch. Budapest, Hungary.

2006, May 5
Dirk Geeraerts Convergentie en divergentie tussen Belgisch en Nederlands Nederlands.
Invited lecture. Karoly Gaspar University, Department of Dutch. Budapest, Hungary.

2006, May 5
Dirk Geeraerts Cognitive Linguistics and the recontextualizing tendencies in contemporary linguistics.
Invited lecture. Karoly Gaspar University, Department of English. Budapest, Hungary

2006, April 19
Sofie van Gijsel Presentation
JADT Conference in Besançon.

2006, April 12
Ann Bertels Analyse quantitative et statistique de la sémantique dans un corpus technique
Presentation at the Conference Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN-2006), Leuven, Belgium.

2006, April 11
Yves Peirsman (Un)supervised approaches to metonymy recognition
Presentation at the Rencontre des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL-2006), Leuven, Belgium.
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2006, April 6
Yves Peirsman Example-based metonymy recognition for proper nouns
Presentation at the student session of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (EACL-2006), Trento, Italy

2006, April 4
Yves Peirsman What's in a name? Computational approaches to metonymical location names
Presentation at the Workshop Making Sense of Sense, held in conjunction with the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (EACL-2006), Trento, Italy.

2006, April 2
Kris Heylen Word order variants in the German Mittelfeld as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based study
Presentation at the 3rd Construction Grammar Network Meeting, Language variation and change in Construction Grammar, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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2006, April 1
Gert De Sutter A usage-based approach to constructional ambiguity
Presentation at the 3rd Construction Grammar Network Meeting, Language variation and change in Construction Grammar, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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2006, March 31
Heylen, Kris Word order variants Word order variants in the German Mittelfeld as pragmatic constructions: a corpus-based study
3rd Meeting of the German Construction Grammar Network: Language Variation and Change in Construction Grammar. Düsseldorf

2006, March 28
Dirk Geeraerts and Gitte Kristiansen On usage-based intercultural pragmatics and methodological procedure. Keynote lecture.
LAUD conference “Intercultural Pragmatics”, Landau, Germany.

2006, March 3
Dirk Geeraerts Looking back at anger. Keynote lecture.
Workshop ‘Translating Emotion’. Maynooth, Ireland.

2006, March 1
Dirk Geeraerts Dirk Geeraerts - Measuring lectal convergence and divergence. Invited lecture.
Irish Association for Applied Linguistics. Dublin, Ireland

2006, February 22
Kris Heylen The Order of Nominal Subject and Pronominal Object in the Mittelfeld: A Case of Free Syntactic Variation?
Presentation at the workshop (AG 7) Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar at the DGfS-Tagung, Bielefeld, Germany
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2006, February 22
Gert De Sutter A multivariate approach to the description and modelling of word order variation
Presentation at the workshop (AG 7) Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar at the DGfS-Tagung, Bielefeld, Germany.
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