[Corpora-List] Workshop: Lexicom-Europe 2006

[Adam Kilgarriff]

LEXICOM-EUROPE 2006

Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing

 

Venue: Opatija <http://www.travel.hr/opatija/> , Croatia

Hosted by the University of Rijeka <http://www.uniri.hr/English_home.htm> 

 

June 5th-9th 2006

 

Led by the Lexicography <http://www.lexmasterclass.com/>  MasterClass, Sue
Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell, Lexicom is an intensive
one-week workshop, with seminars on theoretical issues alternating with
practical sessions at the computer and in small groups. There will be some
parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions. Topics to be covered
include:

 

*         corpus creation 

*         Frame Semantics

*         corpus analysis:

o       software and corpus querying

o       discovering word senses, recording contextual information

*         writing dictionary entries 

*         dictionary databases

*         using web data

 

Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of
these areas.  

 

Over the last six years Lexicom has attracted 160 participants from 25
countries including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors,
research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and
technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information
management companies.  

 

The venue will be Hotel Opatija <http://www.hotel-opatija.hr/> , on the
beautiful Dalmatian coast.

 

Early registration is advised (the Workshop has been oversubscribed in
previous years), and registrations received before mid April carry a
discounted fee, see http://www.pfri.hr/lexicom/ . 

 

Further details including reports of past events can be found at:
http://www.lexmasterclass.com <http://www.lexmasterclass.com/> .

 

Michael Rundell, Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff

The Lexicography MasterClass

 

 

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