LEXICOM: A Typical Workshop Programme


 

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LEXICOM 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]

introduced by

Putting the corpus into the lexicon [AK]

14.30

end

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