[Lexicog] Lexicom New Zealand: course in lexicography and lexical computing

[Gilles-Maurice de Schryver]

[Sent on behalf of Adam Kilgarriff. Sorry for x-posting.]


Lexicom 2012 New Zealand <http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012nz> 


Auckland, February 11th-15th 2012


in association with the first Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
<http://corpling.com/conf> 

Lexicom is a five-day intensive course 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/>  and
Michael Rundell <http://www.lexmasterclass.com/people_mr> .

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

Who the course is for

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 and registration form here
<http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012nz> .

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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>


                        DANTE:  <http://www.webdante.com> a lexical database
for English                  

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