Corpora: LEXICOM Training workshop

[Adam Kilgarriff]

**NEW: Student discount rate
**Early registration date (1st April) approaching fast


                             lexicom at itri

                       A new Training Workshop in
                  Lexicography and Lexical Computing

                  http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom

            The Information Technology Research Institute
                        University of Brighton
                   and The Lexicography MasterClass

                          Brighton, England
                           16-20 July 2001

                              Trainers:
             Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell

Bringing together

      lexicographers
      linguists
      computer scientists

to enable them to develop the skills needed for creating, managing
and exploiting lexical data.

      building and working with text corpora
      dictionary/lexical databases
      writing lexical entries (for people and computers)

All sessions will include practical work at a computer terminal.

The workshop will be tailored to participants' interests; people will
be encouraged to bring data from, and explore issues in, current projects.
For programme see

    http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom/programme.html

                              Location

Brighton is a cosmopolitan city by the sea, one hour from London,
30 minutes from London's Gatwick Airport. A brochure and map will be sent
to you on receipt of your registration.

The workshop will take place on the University of Brighton's
Moulsecoomb campus. The campus is 10 minutes by bus from Brighton Sea
Front and city centre. There are inexpensive coffee bars and cafeterias
on site. We will use the IT Faculty Computer Suite which is equipped
with over 100 modern PCs.

                            Accommodation

University accommodation has been reserved for registrants, in newly
built units near the city centre, at a rate of GBP 27.50 per night
(including breakfast).  A booking form will be sent to you on receipt
of your registration, or email conferences at brighton.ac.uk

                            Related events

The course will be the week after ACL/EACL in Toulouse, France, two
weeks before CogSci in Edinburgh, Scotland, and two weeks after
COMPLEX 2001 in Birmingham, England.

                                Fees

The registration fee for the course is GBP 600 for early registrations
(received before 1st April 2001), GBP 700 thereafter.  Full time
students and second and subsequent participants from the same
institution are eligible for a GBP 200 discount, giving rates of GBP
400 before 1st April, GBP 500 thereafter.

Registrations now being accepted.  For registration form, go to
      http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom/reg_form.html

Trainers:
Sue Atkins was General Editor on the Collins-Robert English-French
dictionaries and Lexicographic Consultant on the Oxford-Hachette. She
is a Founder Member and Past President of Euralex, was the initiator
of the British National Corpus and has co-developed the Frame
Semantics paradigm with Charles Fillmore. Michael Rundell is Managing
Editor of, amongst others the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
English (1987 and 1995 editions), the Longman Language Activator, and
the forthcoming Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners. He
has lectured extensively on lexicography and language teaching. Atkins
and Rundell have extensive experience of training many teams of
lexicographers, for example for the newly-official African languages
of South Africa. Adam Kilgarriff has published extensively on lexical
computing and the interactions between lexicography and language
engineering. He has been a consultant to Longman, Random House, Oxford
University Press and Bloomsbury. He is currently President of ACL-SIGLEX.

                               Supported by
                      EURALEX, ELSNET and ACL SIGLEX
   European Association for Lexicography; European Language and Speech
   Network; Lexicons Special Interest Group of the Association for
   Computational Linguistics.

                     lexicom-request at itri.bton.ac.uk
                    http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom