SKEW-2; 2nd International Sketch Engine Workshop

Weds 16 & Thurs 17 March 2011, Brighton, UK

Sponsors: Cambridge University Press, HarperCollins, Institute of Dutch Lexicology (INL), Lexical Computing Ltd., Oxford University Press

The event is an opportunity for advanced users of the Sketch Engine and others interested in corpus NLP and corpus lexicography to keep abreast of new functionality, compare notes on how the tool can be used to greatest effect, and to discuss problems and possibilities with the development team. It follows on from a successful  2010 event in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The venue is  Terraces Bar and Café. For more about Brighton, including accommodation, see  Visit Brighton.

As in 2010, we anticipate a programme of roughly half submitted papers and half presentations from the Sketch Engine team.

Call for papers

• The deadline for submitting abstracts (max 500 words) is 31 December 2010
• Authors will be notified of acceptance by 31st January 2011.
• Submission to be in the form of 500-word abstracts
• to be emailed to  adam@lexmasterclass.com

Call for participants

• Please email intention to participate to  inquiries@sketchengine.co.uk
• There will be no fee for participants.

Program

available here

Photos

Committee

• Adam Kilgarriff (chair)
• Simon Krek
• Diana McCarthy
• Jan Pomikalek
• Diana Rawlinson (administration)
• Pavel Rychly

_{AK 15 Sept 2010, updated 21 March 2011,}