Presentation The SILPAC research colloquium is open to all members of the SILPAC project, in particular the doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. It will run each semester either in Stuttgart (convenor: Tom Rainsford, H1) or in Mannheim (convenor: Helen Engemann, P2). Program for the Mannheim spring-summer semester 2023 Key facts When? Thursdays 12:00-13:30, 23 February-1 June Where? Online (see details in Slack channel) Who? All doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in SILPAC; PIs and student assistants also welcome.

Programme Thursday 30 June 10:00–13:00: Covering some of the basics (looping, variables, argument parsing, writing output) by generating the song 99 Bottles of Beer On the Wall and variations thereof (coffee break at around 11:30) 13:00–14:30: Lunch break 14:30–18:00: Our first real hands-on case: Converting a CorpusSearch .out file to a table ready to be imported to R or Excel (coffee breaks at around 15:30 and 16:30) Friday 1 July 10:00–13:00: Creating a spreadsheet based on manually annotated data, working with Tara’s 14th century Dutch data (coffee break at around 11:30) 13:00–14:30: Lunch break 14:30–18:00: Determining the distance between primes and their targets, working with Lena’s corpus data (coffee breaks at around 15:30 and 16:30) Remote access If you plan on joining remotely, please have a dual monitor setup ready so you can watch the stream and type in the Python code yourself simultaneously.

Programme Thursday 14:00–(no longer than)18:00: Charles Yang: A Discovery Procedure This is the continuation of Charles’s Mannheim talk “A decision procedure” Discussion of the talk Exchange on questions where the TP will matter in H1, H2 and other SILPAC projects. Suggestions and additions to the programme on Friday. Early dinner (in a restaurant or from a take-away, according to our preferences). Friday 10:00–(no longer than)18:00: Form and meaning There is no precise schedule (apart from a lunch break 13:00–14:30): we propose to start from the literature and approach the ‘meaning’ issue in two steps: