Lexicom: A typical workshop programme

Tutors: Sue Atkins (SA) – Adam Kilgarriff (AK) – Michael Rundell (MR)

DAY 1
08.45 Registration
09.15 Introduction to the course
09.30 Introducing corpus lexicography : demo [MR]
10.15 break: coffee and photo call
10.45 Designing and building a lexicographic corpus [MR]
11.30 Web corpora [AK]
12.30 lunch
13.30 Practical work: introduction
14.30 Practical work (shared tasks): start
15.30 break
15.45 Regular expressions tutorial [AK]
16.30 Feedback on preparatory materials
17.00 end
DAY 2
09.00 Frame Semantics: a tool for lexicographers [SA]
10.00 Ontologies and terminology [AK]
10.45 break
11.15 Practical work (shared tasks)
12.50 lunch
13.50 Practical work (shared tasks): presentation, discussion and conclusions
15.00 break
15.30 Collecting data in the database [SA]
16.30 Practical work: separate briefings for lexicography and NLP strands (in two groups)
17.00 end
DAY 3
09.00 Word Senses : a lexicographic perspective [MR]
09.50 Word Senses : a theoretical perspective [AK]
10.40 break
11.00 LEX: Relevant facts in corpus contexts
1. Lexicographic relevance [SA]
2. Template entries [SA, MR]
followed by practical work
NLP: Building a corpus from the web [AK]
13.00 lunch
14.00 Introducing dictionary writing systems [MR]
14.20 Dictionary writing systems: demo of TshwaneLex
[Gilles-Maurice de Schryver]
15.00 end
evening Course outing and dinner
DAY 4
09.00 LEX: Writing definitions [MR]
NLP: Preparing a corpus for the Sketch Engine [AK]
10.00 LEX: Writing bilingual entries [SA]
NLP: Practical work
11.10 break
11.30 LEX: Practical work
NLP:Corpus querying and grammar writing [AK]
12.30 lunch
13.45 LEX: Practical work
NLP: Practical work
16.00 Guest Seminar
17.00 end
DAY 5
09.00 LEX & NLP: Practical work
10.10 break
10.30 LEX: Practical tasks – presentation, discussion, conclusions
NLP: ditto
12.30 lunch
13.30 What the future holds [AK / MR / SA]
Putting the corpus into the lexicon [AK]
14.30 end