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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=5>Using Corpora: a
tutorial<br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Tuesday 31st May<br><br>
<dd>In association with
</font><a href="http://asialex.nus.edu.sg/tutorial.htm"><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF">ASIALEX
2005</a><br><br>
<dd><a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/people/ak.htm">Adam
Kilgarriff</a><br><br>
<dd><a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/">Lexicography
MasterClass</a><br><br>
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<dd>Since the 1980s, corpora have come to play a central role in
linguistics and lexicography for those languages where they are
available, and they are now becoming available for more and more
languages. This tutorial, by an internationally leading expert,
will show how to<br><br>
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<font face="symbol">·</font><font face="Courier New, Courier">
</font> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">design and collect a
corpus</font>
<font face="symbol">·</font><font face="Courier New, Courier">
</font> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">automatically produce word
sketches, one-page summaries of a words grammatical and collocation
behaviour</font>
<font face="symbol">·</font><font face="Courier New, Courier">
</font> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">explore a corpora using
a state-of-the-art corpus query tool</font>
<font face="symbol">·</font><font face="Courier New, Courier">
</font> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">use the web as a
corpus</font> <br><br>
</ul><font face="Times New Roman, Times">There will be a practical
session on using the corpus query tool, the
</font><a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/"><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF">Word
Sketch Engine</a></u></font>, to write corpus grammars. The
'sample' languages for the tutorial will be Chinese and English.
(Large corpora of both will be available for participants to
explore.)<br><br>
The tutor</b> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/people/ak.htm">Adam
Kilgarriff</a></u></font> has published and lectured widely on corpus and
computational linguistics. He is a Board member of the
<a href="http://www.euralex.org"><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF">European
Association for Lexicography</a></u></font> and Past President of the
<a href="http://www.siglex.org"><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF">Association
for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the
Lexicon</a></u></font>. He has worked with Longman and Macmillan
and is currently <br><br>
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<font face="symbol">·</font><font face="Courier New, Courier">
</font> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">adviser on language
technology at Oxford University Press</font>
<font face="symbol">·</font><font face="Courier New, Courier">
</font> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">Visiting Research Fellow at
the University of Sussex</font>
<font face="symbol">·</font><font face="Courier New, Courier">
</font> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">Director of Lexicography
MasterClass Ltd.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">.</font> <br><br>
</ul><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Venue</b></font> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Lecture Theatre 12,</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Block AS2, National University of Singapore, Arts Link, Singapore.</font> <br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Prices</b></font> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Regular, early (pre 15 May) S$180</font> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Student, early ( pre 15 May ) S$120</font> <br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Regular, late (post 15 May) S$225</font> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Student, late (post 15 May) S$150</font> <br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">The prices are to include transport to and from Hotel M (the ASIALEX hotel) and course notes.</font> <br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Registration</b></font> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Please go to the Asialex website: </font><a href="http://asialex.nus.edu.sg"><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF">http://asialex.nus.edu.sg</a></u></font> and click on 'TUTORIAL' on the left. Instructions for registration and payment will be found there.<br><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Yours sincerely,<br><br>
Asialex 2005 Organising Committee<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:asialex@nus.edu.sg">asialex@nus.edu.sg</a><br><br>
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