Lexicom 2010: A workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing

Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography Master Class have issued a call for participants for this intensive five-day workshop, to be held at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7-11 June 2010. Seminars on theoretical issues will alternate with practical sessions at the computer. Topics to be covered include: corpus creation, corpus analysis, discovering word senses, recording contextual information, preparing word sketches, writing entries for dictionaries and lexicons, dictionary databases and writing systems, using web data, and the future of lexicography and lexical computing

Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas. To register for Lexicom, go to http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2010. Early registration is advised, as previous workshops have been oversubscribed. Further details, including a draft program and reports of past events can be found at http://www.lexmasterclass.com/. For information on on Ljubljana (how to get there, where to stay etc) visit http://www.trojina.si/lexicom2010