Lexicom-Europe 2009

Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing

to be held at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
June 15th-19th 2009

Led by Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography MasterClass: Lexicom-Europe is an intensive one-week workshop, where seminars on theoretical issues alternate with practical sessions at the computer, working in small groups and individually.

Additional slides

You can download the slides not included in the course notes:
Introduction to corpus lexicography
A future for dictionary publishing?
A different way of showing meaning and bilingual equivalence


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Workshop dinner

Workshop dinner will take place at restaurant Plzenka, Hotel International at 19.30, see map.

Programme

Lexicom 2009 programme

Venue

The workshop will take place at the Faculty of Informatics, Botanická 68a, Brno. See the map and travel information

Travel

See the general travel information about the city of Brno and the information how to reach Brno.

It is possible to fly directly to Brno from Prague, London and Moscow.

Information on South Moravian Integrated Public Transport System

Topics

  1. designing and building text corpora
  2. software for analyzing corpus data
  3. installing corpora into the Sketch Engine and building word sketches
  4. designing and using dictionary databases
  5. corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual information
  6. writing entries for dictionaries & lexicons

For part of the week we shall be in two streams, one for lexicography and the other for lexical computing.

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

Accommodation

Hotel Continental is situated near the workshop venue. Please, write "Lexicom" to the "Special requirements" field at an online reservation form.

Prices apply to one room per night, including buffet breakfast