ASIALEX 2005 Singapore

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Using Corpora: A Tutorial

Tuesday, 31st May 2005

In association with ASIALEX 2005

Adam Kilgarriff

Lexicography MasterClass

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 word's 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

• advisor 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.

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