| Lexicom 2008.
Annual Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing |
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For lexicographers, linguists and computer
scientists working together from corpus data to dictionary
entry.
Led by the Lexicography
MasterClass: Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael
Rundell, Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop,
where seminars on theoretical issues alternate with
practical sessions at the computer, working in small
groups, each person with his/her own computer.
Date: July 10th-15th
2008
immediately prior to the 13th
EURALEX conference
Venue: Universitat
Pompeu Fabra
Rambla building - Rooms 226, 228, 230
La Rambla 30-32
08002 Barcelona (Spain)
Workshop language:
English |
Topics
- designing and building text corpora
- software for analyzing corpus data
- designing and using dictionary databases
- Frame Semantics and its application to lexicography
- corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual
information
- writing entries for dictionaries & lexicons
The workshop also includes two 'master classes': one in advanced
corpus-based lexicography (including bilingual entries) and
the other in 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
- terminologists
The course will start at 9am, Thursday 10th July. We shall
work 9-5 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday, and on
Tuesday until 1pm, allowing time for participants to take
a break before attending the opening session of EURALEX. Sunday
will be a free day.
Coffees, lunches and a course dinner will be provided.
Fees and registration
Fill in the joint online
registration form to carry out the registration for LEXICOM
2008 and/or Euralex 2008. The number of available places is
limited.
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until
May 05 2008 |
after
May 05 2008 |
| Regular registration fee |
980 Euros
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1080 Euros |
Reduced registration fee for
full-time students
(they will be required to show evidence of their status) |
490 Euros |
540 Euros |
| If on your contact information you
chose one of the countries
in the list, you will receive a 50% discount on Lexicom’s
registration fee. |
50% discount |
Getting to the LEXICOM venue
Travel & Accomodation information
See Practical
information for Euralex 2008 congress
Further information
If you need more information about the content and suitability
of the workshop, please contact the Lexicography MasterClass.
For practical issues, please contact Group
InfoLex |
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