<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:large">Lexicom </span><span style="font-size:large">Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">

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</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"></span><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Galtür, Austria</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"></span><br>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center">24-28 Sept 2012 </span></font><br></div>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><br>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>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>*          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>           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>*          preparing word sketches<br>
*          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>*          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>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>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>    <a href="http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012eu" target="_blank">http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012eu</a> <br><br>Early registration is advised.  The workshop has been oversubscribed in previous years.  Late fees will apply from 1st September<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></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- </font></span><br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">========================================</font></span><br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><a href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/" target="_blank">Adam Kilgarriff</a>                 <a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com" target="_blank">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a>                                             </font></span><br>

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Director                                    <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lexical Computing Ltd</a>                </font></span><br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">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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