Corpora: LEXICOM Training Workshop

From: Adam Kilgarriff (adam.kilgarriff@itri.brighton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 16:06:19 MET

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                                 lexicom@itri

                           A new Training Workshop in
                      Lexicography and Lexical Computing

                      http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom

                The Information Technology Research Institute
                            University of Brighton
                       and The Lexicography MasterClass

                              Brighton, England
                               16-20 July 2001

                                  Trainers:
                 Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell

    Bringing together

          lexicographers
          linguists
          computer scientists

    to enable them to develop the skills needed for creating, managing
    and exploiting lexical data.

          building and working with text corpora
          dictionary/lexical databases
          writing lexical entries (for people and computers)

    All sessions will include practical work at a computer terminal.

    The workshop will be tailored to participants' interests; people will
    be encouraged to bring data from, and explore issues in current projects.
    For programme see

        http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom/programme.html

                                  Location

    Brighton is a cosmopolitan city by the sea, one hour from London,
    30 minutes from London's Gatwick Airport. A brochure and map will be sent
    to you on receipt of your registration.

    The workshop will take place on the University of Brighton's
    Moulsecoomb campus. The campus is 10 minutes by bus from Brighton Sea
    Front and city centre. There are inexpensive coffee bars and canteens
    on site. We shall use the IT Faculty Computer Suite which is equipped
    with over 100 modern PCs.

                                Accommodation

    University accommodation has been reserved for registrants, in newly
    built units near the city centre, at a rate of GBP 27.50 per night
    (including breakfast). A booking form will be sent to you on receipt
    of your registration, or email conferences@brighton.ac.uk

                                Related events

    The course will be the week after ACL/EACL in Toulouse, France, two
    weeks before CogSci in Edinburgh, Scotland, and two weeks after
    COMPLEX 2001 in Birmingham, England.

                                    Fees

    The registration fee for the course is GBP 600. Second and subsequent
    participants from the same institution are eligible for a 33% (GBP 200)
    discount. There is a late registration surcharge of GBP 100 for
    registrations received after 1st April 2001.

    Registrations now being accepted. For registration form, go to
          http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom/reg_form.html

    Trainers:
    Sue Atkins was General Editor on the Collins-Robert English-French
    dictionaries and Lexicographic Consultant on the Oxford-Hachette. She
    is a Founder Member and Past President of Euralex, was the initiator
    of the British National Corpus and has co-developed the Frame
    Semantics paradigm with Charles Fillmore. Michael Rundell was Managing
    Editor of, amongst others the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
    English (1987 and 1995 editions), the Longman Lanugage Activator, and
    the Bloomsbury/Macmillan Dictionary for Learners of English
    (forthcoming). He has lectured extensively on lexicography and
    language teaching. Atkins and Rundell have extensive experience of
    training many teams of lexicographers, for example for the
    newly-official African languages of South Africa. Adam Kilgarriff has
    published extensively on lexical computing and the interactions
    between lexicography and language engineering. He has been a
    consultant to Longman, Random House, Oxford University Press and
    Bloomsbury. He is currently President of ACL-SIGLEX.

                                   Supported by
                          EURALEX, ELSNET and ACL SIGLEX
       European Association for Lexicography; European Language and Speech
       Network; Lexicons Special Interest Group of the Association for
       Computational Linguistics.

                        http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/lexicom



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