The Computerized Lexicographical–Terminological Centre (CLTDC) Foreign
Language Centre, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary has the
pleasure of inviting you to participate in a Course in Computational
Lexicography:
"From Corpus to Dictionary" to be held from 27th November to 2nd December,
1995 in Debrecen, Hungary.
The lecturers / tutors are famous experts in the field who work at leading
institutions of the art (COBUILD Ltd; OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; Rank Xerox
Research Centre).
To the best of our and our experts’ knowledge there has never been held a
course in COMPUTERIZED DICTIONARY-MAKING so we really count on a lot of our
colleagues’ decision to participate.
A tentative (but almost final) program and a registration form are included.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The COURSE in COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY tries to cover a wide range of
topics and both the theoretical and practical aspects of the field so it is
addressed to dictionary-makers, terminologists, computational linguists,
corpus builders, linguistic software developers, electronic publishers and
linguists in general – to anyone who is interested in language engineering
and linguistics.
LOCATION
Debrecen is the second largest town in Hungary – about 230
kilometres from the capital, Budapest in the Great Plain of Hungary, near
the "Hortobagy" Puszta.
Kossuth Lajos University was established in the twenties of this
century.
CLTDC is being established by a World Bank supported project. Its
main aim is to create bi-lingual computerized dictionaries in different
fields of science.
Lectures / workshop are planned to take place in the Mathematics
Building of the University.
NOTICE: A second announcement will be sent shortly containing information on
travel.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
A COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY
Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary; Nov. 27 - Dec. 1
Lecturers:
Gregory Greffenstette, Project Leader, Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble,
France
Patrick Hanks, Chief Editor, Current English Dictionaries, Oxford University
Press
Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Corpus Manager, Cobuild, University of Birmingham
Guest Lecturers: [TO BE CONFIRMED]
Prof. Dafydd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld
Dr Robert Neumann, IDS, Mannheim
Course Outline:
Monday 27 November:
9:00-10:00 Opening remarks: representative of the Rector of Kossuth
University
10:00-11:00 Patrick Hanks: What is a Corpus? What is Corpus Analysis?
11:00-12:00 Ramesh Krishnamurthy: Why bother with a Corpus?
12:00-13:00 Gregory Greffenstette: Linguistic Treatment of Corpora(I)
Tokenization, Morphological Analysis
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-17:30 WORKSHOPS: practical issues in corpus building
Tuesday 28 November:
8:30-10:00 Patrick Hanks: Norm and Variation in the Lexicon
10:00-11:30 Ramesh Krishnamurthy: What can you do with a Corpus?
11:30-13:00 Gregory Greffenstette: Tagging, Lemmatization, Low-Level-Syntax
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-17:30 WORKSHOPS: practical sessions in corpus analysis
Wednesday 29 November:
8:30-10:00 Patrick Hanks: Building Lexical Prototypes
10:00-11:30 Ramesh Krishnamurthy: Senses and Definitions
11:30-13:00 Gregory Greffenstette: Textual Corpora-History, Creation,
Availability
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-17:30 WORKSHOPS: practical sessions in corpus analysis
Thursday 30 November:
8:30-10:00 Patrick Hanks: Defining Architecture
10:00-11:30 Ramesh Krishnamurthy: Choosing Examples from a Corpus
11:30-13:00 Gregory Greffenstette: Corpus Exploitaiton
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-17:30 WORKSHOPS: practical sessions in dictionary writing
Friday 1 December:
8:30-10:00 Patrick Hanks: Practical Issues in Dictionary Publishing
10:00-11:30 Ramesh Krishnamurthy: Pragmatics in the dictionary
11:30-13:00 Gregory Greffenstette: Extracting a Thesaurus from a Corpus
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-16:30 Open Discussion Forum: Opportunities and Issues in Corpus
Linguistics
Examples of topics that may come up:
What sort of dictionaries benefit most from corpus analysis?
Only dictionaries? What about other applications of corpus research?
What Sort of corpus does one need for different purpose?
How can we reconcile the empirical study of corpus data with rationalist
work in theory building?
Saturday 2 December
9:00-10:30 Dr R. Neumann, IDS, Mannheim (in German): The work of the
Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache
10:30-12:00 Prof. D. Gibbon, University of Bielefeld: [TITLE TO FOLLOW]
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 AFTERNOON EXCURSION: Hortabagy National Park or Tokaj Wine Region
APPLICATION FORM
COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY COURSE
Debrecen, 27 November – 2 December, 1995
Name of Participant:
Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms
Business address:
Tel:
Fax:
E-mail:
Home address:
Present employer / affiliation:
Academic degree(s) / studies:
Experience of computing (if any):
Previous experience of dictionary-making:
Questions you wish to raise at tutorials / at the discussion:
(The application form is to be sent by e-mail to
rovnyf@dragon.klte.hu
as soon as possible).
The signed application form is to be faxed to
+36 52 329 306
until 20th November, 1995
I understand that the course fee of DEM 450 / 205 GBP / 320 USD is to be
paid on the spot. The course fee covers tuition, the evening reception on
Monday, lunches at the university refectory and the excursion to Hortobagy
or Tokaj wine region on Saturday.
The cost of accommodation is to be paid at the selected hotel.
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