[Corpora-List] Dictionary Writing Systems: 4th Intnl workshop, Torino, Sept 6 2006

[Adam Kilgarriff]

********* 2ND ANNOUNCEMENT: SUBMISSION DEADLINE 11th JUNE *********

                Fourth International Workshop on 
                   DICTIONARY WRITING SYSTEMS 
                           (DWS 2006)
               Torino, Italy, Tues 5th September 2006
                      (pre EURALEX conference)
          Workshop website: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/dws06  
            
A dictionary writing system (DWS) is a piece of software for writing and
producing a dictionary. It might include an editor, a database, a web
interface and various management tools (for allocating work etc.) It
operates with a dictionary grammar, which specifies the structure of the
dictionary.

We invite submission of research papers about, and demos of, dictionary
writing systems.  Maximum length: Six A4 pages (12pt font).
 
Submission deadline is 

                     **** 11th June 2006 **** 

Notification of acceptance: 30th June.

A volume of proceedings will be prepared.

The workshop is relevant for: 
       • dictionary project managers 
       • lexical database users and developers 
       • lexicographers 
       • students of lexicography, lexicology, computational linguistics 

The workshop follows similar successful events in Brighton, UK in 2002 and
2003, and Brno, the Czech Republic in 2004. 

Program committee:
    • Philippe Climent, IDM, France 
    • Steve Crowdy, Longman Dictionaries/Pearson Education, U.K. 
    • Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd. and U. Sussex, U.K. (Chair)
    • Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 
    • Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, TshwaneDJe HLT and Ghent U, Belgium 
    • Pavel Smrz, Brno U of Technology, Czech Republic 

Fee:                            €96
Full-time Student fee:          €48

Venue will be central Torino; details to follow on website.  For travel etc
see EURALEX conference website, http://www.euralex2006.unito.it  


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