Can't help with a boot camp, but the New Trends seminar would be a nice starting point: http://www.ugr.es/local/newtrends/callpapers.php.
For reading lists, you are sure to get a large number of recommended books as there are a number of different approaches about. However, my favourite introduction is through John Sinclair's 1991 book.
Sinclair J. 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford : Oxford University Press. No one has more clearly described the problem of looking at language in an inductive manner through corpora. I'd then recommend 'Trust the Text', a collection of papers by John Sinclair (Routledge 2004).
Other stimulating reads include:
Tognini Bonelli E. 2001. Corpus Linguistics at Work. Benjamins. Kennedy G. 1998. An introduction to corpus linguistics. Longman Hunston S. 2002. Corpora in Applied Linguistics. CUP. Sampson G. & McCarthy D. eds. 2004. Corpus linguistics: readings in a widening discipline. Continuum.
That ought to get you off to a good start. You could then go to the Corpus Linguistics conference in Birmingham to meet people.
Hope this helps
Best
Geoffrey
Surlignage Shekhar Pradhan <Shekhar.Pradhan at marist.edu>:
> Although I have a strong background in computer science and pretty good
> background in linguistics, statistical methods, machine learning, etc., I am
> new to the field of corpus linguistics. Are there any kind of summer
> institutes for introducing newbies to this field? Also, can anyone recommend
> a good introductory book to this field and a site which gives an annotated
> list of all the tools available in this field? Thanks in
> advance.<br><br>Shekhar Pradhan<br>Computer Science, marist College<br>
>
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