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Short Intensive Courses
TWC made its name by offering short, high-level courses and similar events for language researchers and workers in the language industries. We are very pleased to announce that this year we are again able to offer events in the beautiful ex-Cistercian monastery at Pontignano, near Siena: see http://www.unisi.it/servizi/certosa/ We are organising this event jointly with the University of Siena.
By careful planning and budgeting we are able this year to reduce our fee for the four-day course by €100.
October 27th-31st 2006 A short intensive course on the theme: Special and Varied Corpora Seven acknowledged experts in corpus design and construction lead this packed four-day course. As always there is an emphasis on practical matters of corpus handling and retrieval software. For further information see Short description.
TWC Courses concentrate on the use of electronic corpora for
different purposes, including:
TWC staff are experienced in conducting courses and projects in Europe and beyond, co-ordinating commercial, public and academic sectors.
Resources
TWC offers access to unique and growing resources for language and information, including: