*SKEW-3* 3rd International Sketch Engine Workshop Weds-Thurs 21-22 March 2012 Brno, Czech Republic https://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/wiki/SKEW-3 The event is an opportunity for advanced users of the Sketch Engine and others interested in corpus NLP and corpus lexicography to keep breast of new functionality, compare notes on how the tool can be used to greatest effect, and to discuss problems and possibilities with the development team. It follows on from successful events in Brighton, UK (2011) and Ljubljana <http://goog_1103217201/>, <http://goog_1103217201/>Slovenia<http://www.slovenscina.eu/Vsebine/En/Dogodki/BesedneSkice/Program.aspx> (2010). Again, we anticipate a programme of roughly half submitted papers and half presentations from the Sketch Engine team. The venue will be Hotel Continental Brno<http://www.continentalbrno.cz/en/introduction.html>. For more information about Brno, see www.brno.cz<http://www2.brno.cz/index.php?lan=en> . *Call for papers* - The deadline for submitting abstracts (max 500 words) is *31 December 2011* - Authors will be notified of acceptance by 31st January 2012. - Submission to be in the form of 500-word abstracts - to be emailed to adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *Call for participants* - Please email intention to participate to inquiries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (for planning purposes) - There will be no fee for participants. *Committee* Adam Kilgarriff (chair) Simon Krek Diana McCarthy Jan Pomikalek Diana Rawlinson (administration) Pavel Rychly -- ======================================== Adam Kilgarriff <http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/> adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Director Lexical Computing Ltd<http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/> Visiting Research Fellow University of Leeds<http://leeds.ac.uk> *Corpora for all* with the Sketch Engine <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk> *DANTE: a lexical database for English<http://www.webdante.com> * ========================================