Adam Kilgarriff


 

About CV & Publications

 

Research Interests:

  • The lexicon; its structure; lexical resources, including published dictionaries; how lexicographers write dictionaries, how they determine what meanings a word has, and how this relates to theoretical discussions of ambiguity and computational work on word sense disambiguation. Evaluating word sense disambiguation programs.
  • Language corpora; word frequency distributions; how these vary across language varieties, and how they relate to syntactic and lexical hypotheses; corpus interfaces; automatic and semi-automatic lexical acquisition from corpora; using the web as a corpus.
  • Lexical semantics; formalisms for lexical representation.

Current and recent work includes:

  • using the web as a source of linguistic data
  • the structure and potential of word meanings
  • co-ordinating SENSEVAL, a Word Sense Disambiguation evaluation exercise Home page here
  • measuring similarity between language corpora
  • assessments of role of WSD technology for Language Engineering

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