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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Lexicom Workshops in Lexicography and Lexical Computing</strong></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>Mexico City, Mexico, 24-28 February 2009</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Co-located with CICLING-09 <a href="http://www.cicling.org/2009" target="_blank">http://www.cicling.org/2009</a><span> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span><a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-americas" target="_blank">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-americas</a> </font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Brno, Czech Republic, 15-19 June 2009</font><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font> </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> <span> </span><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span><a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-europe" target="_blank">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-europe</a> </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Led by Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell and (in Brno only) Sue Atkins of the Lexicography MasterClass, this is an intensive five-day workshop, with seminars on theoretical issues alternating with practical sessions at the computer. There will be some parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Topics to be covered include:</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*<span> </span>corpus creation </font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*<span> </span>corpus analysis:</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>o<span> </span>software and corpus querying</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>o<span> </span>discovering word senses, recording contextual information</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*<span> </span>preparing word sketches</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*<span> </span>writing entries for dictionaries and lexicons</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*<span> </span>dictionary databases and writing systems</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">*<span> </span>using web data</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas.<span> </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Over the last eight years Lexicom workshops (in Europe and in Asia) have attracted 250 participants from 32 countries, including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors, research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information-management companies.<span> </span></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">To register, go to: </font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> <a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-americas" target="_blank">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-americas</a> or <span> </span><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span><a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-europe" target="_blank">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2009-europe</a> </font></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Early registration is advised. The workshop has been oversubscribed in previous years.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Further details, including draft programme and reports of past events can be found at: <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lexmasterclass.com</a> </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell, Adam Kilgarriff</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Lexicography MasterClass</font></p></div>
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Lexical Computing Ltd <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a><br>Lexicography MasterClass Ltd <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com">http://www.lexmasterclass.com</a><br>
Universities of Leeds and Sussex <a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a><br>================================================<br>