LEXICOM-EUROPE 2006
Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing
Venue: Opatija, Croatia
Hosted by the University of Rijeka
June 5th-9th 2006
Led by the Lexicography MasterClass, Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell, Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop, with seminars on theoretical issues alternating with practical sessions at the computer and in small groups. There will be some parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions. Topics to be covered include:
* corpus creation
* Frame Semantics
* corpus analysis:
software and corpus querying
discovering word senses, recording contextual information
* writing dictionary entries
* dictionary databases
* using web data
Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas.
Over the last six years Lexicom has attracted 160 participants from 25 countries including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors, research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information management companies.
The venue will be Hotel Opatija, on the beautiful Dalmatian coast.
Early registration is advised (the Workshop has been oversubscribed in previous years), and registrations received before mid April carry a discounted fee, see
http://www.pfri.hr/lexicom/ .
Further details including reports of past events can be found at:
http://www.lexmasterclass.com.
Michael Rundell, Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff
The Lexicography MasterClass