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Word frequency and keyword extraction: Programme

10.00 Tea and coffee served for arriving participants
10.25 Welcome by Tony McEnery
10.30 'Word frequency: Use or misuse' - John Kirk
11.00 'Word Frequency, Statistical Stylistics, and Authorship Attribution' - David Hoover
11.30 'Word Frequency in Context: Alternative architectures to examine related words, register variation and historical change' - Mark Davies
12.00 'Issues for Historical Corpora: First catch your word' - Christian Kay
12.30 Lunch
13.30 'In Search of a Bad Reference Corpus' - Mike Scott
14.00 'Keywords and Moral Panics: Mary Whitehouse and media censorship' - Tony McEnery
14.30 '"The question is, how cruel is it?" Keywords in debates on fox hunting in the British House of Commons' - Paul Baker
15.00 'Love - a familiar or a devil? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies' - Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Rayson
15.30 Discussion led by rapporteur Marilyn Deegan
16.30 Tea
17.00 Summing up the seminar (discussion led by Marilyn Deegan)
17.30 Close of seminar and departure