Training and Workshops
Collectively and individually, LexMC’s directors have trained several hundred lexicographers, computationalists and linguists over the past three decades. We run regular workshops that offer a unique mix of hands-on practical tasks combined with relevant theoretical input, reflecting our extensive experience in the field.
LexMC runs workshops of any length and these are either open-to-all (especially our annual Lexicom series) or can be customized to meet the needs of a specific institution or research group.
If you would like to discuss a customized course, contact us.
Lexicom
Lexicom is an intensive 5-day workshop in lexicography and lexical computing. It combines practical work and theoretical perspectives, to provide training in the making of corpus-based dictionaries and the software that supports this activity.
The model we follow is to alternate seminar or lecture presentation of a topic with practical sessions in which participants – each with their own web-linked computer – work together in small groups to complete exercises or develop dictionary entries.
The first Lexicom was held in 2001, and they have been running every year since, in a variety of locations. Lexicom is a well-established annual training event, with over 300 ‘graduates’. The workshops have been attended by people from the publishing industry (both managers and editors), from universities (both faculty and graduate students, including linguists, computer scientists, translation studies experts, and computational linguists), from software houses (engineers and linguists), and from government agencies (terminologists and translators).
A typical Lexicom programme can be viewed here, and reports of past workshops are here.