<h1 style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Lexicom 2011</font></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2011/">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2011/</a></div>
<h3><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing</span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="text-align: center;">
St Petersburg, Russia</div><div style="text-align: center;">June 14th-18th 2011</div></font></h3><p style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lexical Computing Ltd.</a>, <a href="http://eng.spbu.ru/" target="_blank">St. Petersburg State University</a> and <a href="http://www.abbyy.com/dictionary_reference_software/" target="_blank">ABBYY software</a></font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lexicom is a five-day intensive workshop in lexicography and lexical computing created by the <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/">Lexicography MasterClass</a>. You will learn how to create dictionaries and other lexical resources, from the preparation of corpora to the writing of entries. Seminars on theoretical issues alternate with practical sessions at the computer, working in small groups and individually. This is the workshop's eleventh year and we now have three hundred graduates, from all parts of the world: reviews of previous events can be found <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/course_lexicom">here</a>.</font></p>
<p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It will be led by <a href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/">Adam Kilgarriff</a>, <a href="http://www.simonkrek.si/">Simon Krek</a> and <a href="http://www.camlex.co.uk/">Liz Walter</a>.</font></p>
<hr><h3><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Topics</font></h3><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td><ol><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">designing and building text corpora</font></li>
<li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">installing corpora into the Sketch Engine and building word sketches</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">dictionary databases</font></li>
<li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual information</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">writing entries</font></li>
</ol></td></tr></tbody></table><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The workshop is suitable for people with a background in one or more of the following:</font></p><table border="0"><tbody><tr>
<td><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">lexicography</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">linguistics</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">computational linguistics</font></li>
<li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">computer support for dictionary projects</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">translation</font></li>
<li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">terminology</font></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>Full details: <a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2011/">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2011/</a><br>
-- <br>========================================<br><a href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/" target="_blank">Adam Kilgarriff</a> <a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com" target="_blank">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a> <br>
Director <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lexical Computing Ltd</a> <br>Visiting Research Fellow <a href="http://leeds.ac.uk" target="_blank">University of Leeds</a> <div>
<i><font color="#006600">Corpora for all</font></i> with <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk" target="_blank">the Sketch Engine</a> </div><div> <i><a href="http://www.webdante.com" target="_blank">DANTE: <font color="#009900">a lexical database for English</font></a><font color="#009900"> </font> </i><div>
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