Author: grant.corecon@ulbsibiu.ro
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The uses of topic modeling in CORECON: Potentials and challenges
Topic modeling is an umbrella term used to denote a host of semi-automated or fully automated corpus linguistic methods that aim to map the content of texts by identifying dominant themes. When driven by an algorithm that is trained in either a supervised or unsupervised manner on a dataset, the method makes it possible to…
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Corpus compilation and data annotation protocols in CORECON
Data collection is the base for any empirical study and corpus analysis is a well-established method used within critical discourse studies. Jędrzej Olejniczak in his blogpost wrote about data collection, management and processing in CORECON. Here I explain the motivations behind methodological choices and our rationales in data collection and data annotation protocols used when…
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Pathways to impact and international research cooperation: Exemplifying good practice for FORTHEM Alliance and beyond
During the FORTHEM meeting at the University of Opole in November 2024, several academics were invited to share good practices and experiences of international cooperation with Ukrainian scholars participating in the project “Supporting cooperation between the University of Opole and Ukrainian universities within the framework of the FORTHEM Alliance” of the NAWA organization. (Details of…
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Voices and sources in the news: Insights about language representation and journalistic practices for CORECON research and interventions.
The fifth biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) and the Department of Applied Linguistics of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium on 12-13 December 2024 brought together over 60 researchers from Europe, America, Asia and Africa, to discuss the topics of “Look Who’s Talking: Voices and Sources in the News.” (Details of the…
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CORECON team delivered workshops for high school students
On 24 October 2024, we were invited to take part in the Alternative Education Week at Onisifor Ghibu Theoretical High School in Sibiu. The Alternative Education Week is a yearly nationwide initiative designed to help students develop their creativity and their socio-emotional abilities. The workshops were conducted with two groups of 9th-graders. By solving media…
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How we collect, manage and process our research material for CORECON
The research carried out within CORECON is based on a large database that consists of hundreds of news articles and social media entries in Romanian, Polish and English. These constitute a corpus (plural: corpora): a large set of linguistic data (e.g., collected from news outlets and social media) that can be processed with the use…
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Exploring epistemic rights and truth claims: Insightful book reviews from CORECON members
This blogpost promotes two recent book reviews that were commissioned from CORECON members Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Ecaterina Ilis by the academic journal “Power of Judgement” (Władza Sądzenia). This open-access indexed academic journal published by University of Lodz, Poland, self-describes as a venue answering to the need for regular and effective exchange of reflections in the…
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CORECON Lucian Blaga University’s “Researchers’ Night”: A Report on a Workshop with High School and Secondary School Students
On 27 September 2024, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu hosted the annual event “Noaptea Cercetătorilor” (Researchers’ Night) as part of the European Researchers’ Night, a pan-European event meant, among other things, to bring research and researchers closer to the public and to show how research affects our daily lives. We explored the social responsibility future…
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What can collocations tell us about patterns of representation of Russian-Ukrainian conflict in tabloids?
The identification and analysis of collocations – statistically significant bonds and frequent pairings of words in a corpus or sample – can be used to obtain insight into conceptual relationships and terminological associations. Some of the salient collocations can be quite novel or ideologically charged, which can allow us to notice patterns that would be…