<div class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:large">Lexicom Workshops in Lexicography and Lexical Computing</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center">Final call</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"> for </span><a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012nz/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b>lexicom2012-NZ</b></a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center">, in Auckland, New Zealand, </span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:-webkit-center">in association with the first </span><a href="http://corpling.com/conf" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:-webkit-center">Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"> 11-15 Feb 2012</span><br>
<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center">First call </b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center">for</span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"> <a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012eu/" target="_blank">lexicom2012-europe</a>,</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"> in </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:-webkit-center">Galtür, Austria</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center">, 24-28 Sept 2012 </span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>Led by Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography MasterClass, these are intensive five-day workshops, with seminars on theoretical issues alternating with practical sessions at the computer. There will be some parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions.<br>
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</blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>Topics to be covered include:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>* corpus creation<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote>* corpus analysis:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote> o software and corpus querying<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote> o discovering word senses, recording contextual information<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>* preparing word sketches<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>* writing entries for dictionaries and lexicons<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote>* dictionary databases and writing systems<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>* using web data<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote>* the future of lexicography and lexical computing<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas. <br>
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</blockquote>Over the last eleven years Lexicom workshops (in Europe, Asia and the Americas) have attracted over 300 participants from 35 countries, including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors, research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information-management companies. <br>
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</blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote>To register, go to:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
</blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote> <a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012nz" target="_blank">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012nz</a> or <br>
<a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012eu" target="_blank">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012eu</a> <br><br>Early registration for the Europe event is advised. The workshop has been oversubscribed in previous years.<br>
<br>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> <br><br><div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <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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