[Corpora-List] Two short courses: Computers and Lexicography, Corpus Design and Use

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Two short courses in Brighton, England:

                 Computers and Lexicography
                       Tutors: Adam Kilgarriff and David Tugwell
                       Invited speakers:
                             Steve Crowdy, Longman Dictionaries, Pearson
Education
                             Laura Elliott, Oxford University Press
                       Dates: Mon 11 - Thurs 14th November 2002

                 Corpus Design and Use
                       Tutors: Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell
                       Dates: Mon 2nd - Thurs 5th December 2002

Course content:
    Computers and Lexicography
          Days 1-3: perl, regular expressions, probability theory,
information theory,
                          word frequency distributions, information
retrieval
          Day 4: seminar on Dictionary Writing Systems, with systems
from three major
                          dictionary publishers presented and discussed

    Corpus Design and Use
           Issues in Corpus Design: size, representativeness, sample sizes
           Collecting corpus texts: sources, copyright, text format,
data capture
           Text type information for lexicography and linguistics
           Corpus query programs: desiderata, available and
shortly-available software
           Methods and measures for comparing corpora
           Corpora from the web

For further details, registration etc see

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

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Adam Kilgarriff
Senior Research Fellow
ITRI, University of Brighton
Brighton, UK
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff
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