[Corpora-List] ASIALEX: extra event – Using Corpora tutorial with Adam Kilgarriff
From: Peter K Tan (PeterTan@leonis.nus.edu.sg)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 04:06:24 MET
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- Since the 1980s, corpora have come to play a central role in
linguistics and lexicography for those languages where they are
available, and they are now becoming available for more and more
languages. This tutorial, by an internationally leading expert,
will show how to
·
design and collect a
corpus
·
automatically produce word
sketches, one-page summaries of a words grammatical and collocation
behaviour
·
explore a corpora using
a state-of-the-art corpus query tool
·
use the web as a
corpus
There will be a practical
session on using the corpus query tool, the
Word
Sketch Engine, to write corpus grammars. The
'sample' languages for the tutorial will be Chinese and English.
(Large corpora of both will be available for participants to
explore.)
The tutor
Adam
Kilgarriff has published and lectured widely on corpus and
computational linguistics. He is a Board member of the
European
Association for Lexicography and Past President of the
Association
for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on the
Lexicon. He has worked with Longman and Macmillan
and is currently
·
adviser on language
technology at Oxford University Press
·
Visiting Research Fellow at
the University of Sussex
·
Director of Lexicography
MasterClass Ltd.
.
Venue
Lecture Theatre 12,
Block AS2, National University of Singapore, Arts Link, Singapore.
Prices
Regular, early (pre 15 May) S$180
Student, early ( pre 15 May ) S$120
Regular, late (post 15 May) S$225
Student, late (post 15 May) S$150
The prices are to include transport to and from Hotel M (the ASIALEX hotel) and course notes.
Registration
Please go to the Asialex website: http://asialex.nus.edu.sg and click on 'TUTORIAL' on the left. Instructions for registration and payment will be found there.
Yours sincerely,
Asialex 2005 Organising Committee
Email: asialex@nus.edu.sg
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