Lexicom Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing Galtür, Austria 24-28 Sept 2012 Led by Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography MasterClass, these are intensive five-day workshops, with seminars on theoretical issues alternating with practical sessions at the computer. There will be some parallel 'lexicographic' and 'computational' sessions. > Topics to be covered include: > * corpus creation > * corpus analysis: o software and corpus querying > o discovering word senses, recording contextual information * preparing word sketches * writing entries for dictionaries and lexicons > * dictionary databases and writing systems * using web data > * the future of lexicography and lexical computing > Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas. Over the last eleven years Lexicom workshops (in Europe, Asia and the Americas) have attracted over 300 participants from 35 countries, including lexicographers, computational linguists, professors, research students, translators, terminologists, and editors, managers and technical support staff from dictionary publishers and information-management companies. > To register, go to: > http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2012eu Early registration is advised. The workshop has been oversubscribed in previous years. Late fees will apply from 1st September Further details, including draft programme and reports of past events can be found at: http://www.lexmasterclass.com -- ======================================== 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> * ========================================