Course Contents


 

Lecture and seminar topics include:

  • Corpora
    • Design
    • Development
    • Annotation
    • The web as a corpus
  • Frame Semantics and a theory-based lexicography
  • Lexicography
    • dictionary microstructure and macrostructure
    • lexicographic relevance: how to know which facts to extract from a corpus
    • theoretical and practical issues in establishing a word's meanings
    • approaches to defining
    • Computational linguistics
      • automatic lexical acquisition
      • word sense disambiguation
      • The dictionary project
        • setting up and managing the project
        • dictionary-writing software

          • Practical activities include:

            • compiling dictionary entries and detailed database entries (monolingual and bilingual)
            • using corpus data to identify meanings
            • using regular expressions
            • applying a Frame Semantics approach to lexicography
            • critiquing dictionary entries
            • building 'Word Sketches' (automated profiles showing a word's key grammatical and collocational features)


            For all our workshops, participants are provided with a book of Course Notes, typically of about 250 pages. The Course Notes replicate lecture sessions, outline practical tasks, and include an up-to-date bibliography and list of relevant websites.

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