LINGUIST List 13.3044

Thu Nov 21 2002

FYI: Short Course: Corpus Design and Use

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  • Amy Neale, Short Course: Corpus Design and Use

    Message 1: Short Course: Corpus Design and Use

     Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:44:18 +0000
    From: Amy Neale <a.nealeitri.brighton.ac.uk>
    Subject: Short Course: Corpus Design and Use


    4 Day Short Course in Corpus Design and Use

    2 - 5 December 2002 ITRI, University of Brighton, East Sussex, UK

    The corpus is crucial to contemporary dictionary-making and lexical resource development. The quality of a lexical resource depends critically on the quality of the corpus used for its development.

    In this 4-day course we explore the corpus in relation to how well it represents one or more language varieties and the difficult issues this raises about the data set we wish to sample from.

    At the end of the short course, students will understand how a corpus collection strategy may be developed and implemented and what information should be included in the header of each document in the corpus.

    Content

    * Lexicographic evidence before the corpus * Issues in corpus design: size, representativeness etc * Collecting corpus text: sources, copyright issues, text formats, data capture * Text type information and its use in lexicography * Corpus-query programs: available and upcoming software * Methods and measures for comparing corpora

    Places are limited and early registration is recommended.

    For more information and details of how to register please visit: http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/courses/CPDLex/modules/LCM07.html Or contact us at itelbrighton.ac.uk