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