<div class="gmail_quote"><h1 style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><font size="4"><a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012nz" target="_blank">Lexicom 2012 New Zealand</a></font></h1><div><i style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; ">***Early-bird rates until Thurs 1 st December 2011***</i></div>
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<font size="4">Auckland, February 11th-15th 2012</font></h3><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">in association with the first <a href="http://corpling.com/conf" target="_blank">Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference</a></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">Lexicom is a five-day intensive course in lexicography and lexical computing created by the <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">It will be led by <a href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/" target="_blank">Adam Kilgarriff</a> and <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/people_mr" target="_blank">Michael Rundell</a>.</p>
<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><span style="font-weight:bold">Topics</span></p><table border="0" style="font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><td><ol><li><font face="'times new roman', serif">designing and building text corpora</font></li>
<li><font face="'times new roman', serif">installing corpora into the Sketch Engine and building word sketches</font></li><li><font face="'times new roman', serif">dictionary databases</font></li>
<li><font face="'times new roman', serif">corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual information</font></li><li><font face="'times new roman', serif">writing entries</font></li>
</ol></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><span style="font-weight:bold">Who the course is for</span></p><p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">
The workshop is suitable for people with a background in one or more of the following:</p><table border="0" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><td><ul><li>lexicography</li><li>linguistics</li>
<li>computational linguistics</li><li>computer support for dictionary projects</li><li>translation</li><li>terminology</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><div>Full details and registration form <a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012nz" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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-- <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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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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