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.
