[Corpora-List] Lexicom 2011: Workshop in lexicography and lexical computing, St Petersburg, June

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Lexicom 2011
http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2011/
Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing
St Petersburg, Russia
June 14th-18th 2011

Lexical Computing Ltd. <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/>, St. Petersburg
State University <http://eng.spbu.ru/> and ABBYY
software<http://www.abbyy.com/dictionary_reference_software/>

Lexicom is a five-day intensive workshop in lexicography and lexical
computing created by the Lexicography
MasterClass<http://www.lexmasterclass.com/>.
You will learn how to create dictionaries and other lexical resources, from
the preparation of corpora to the writing of entries. Seminars on
theoretical issues alternate with practical sessions at the computer,
working in small groups and individually. This is the workshop's eleventh
year and we now have three hundred graduates, from all parts of the world:
reviews of previous events can be found
here<http://www.lexmasterclass.com/course_lexicom>
.

It will be led by Adam Kilgarriff <http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/>,
Simon Krek<http://www.simonkrek.si/>
 and Liz Walter <http://www.camlex.co.uk/>.
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Topics

   1. designing and building text corpora
   2. installing corpora into the Sketch Engine and building word sketches
   3. dictionary databases
   4. corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual
   information
   5. writing entries

The workshop is suitable for people with a background in one or more of the
following:

   - lexicography
   - linguistics
   - computational linguistics
   - computer support for dictionary projects
   - translation
   - terminology

Full details: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2011/
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Adam Kilgarriff <http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/>
adam at lexmasterclass.com
Director                                    Lexical Computing
Ltd<http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/>

Visiting Research Fellow                 University of
Leeds<http://leeds.ac.uk>

*Corpora for all* with the Sketch Engine <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk>

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