SKEW-2 Program

SKEW-2: 2nd International Sketch Engine Workshop Tues-Thurs 15-17 March 2011: Brighton, UK

Tues 15 March

• 6.30 – 9.00: Reception at 71 Freshfield Rd, Brighton BN2 0BL

Weds 16 March

• 9.00-9.30 Registration
• 9.30-10.15 Welcome; Lexical Computing and Sketch Engine strategy (Kilgarriff)
• 10.15-11.00 Pavel Rychly, Sketch Engine developments: New representations for word sketches, and multiword sketches Virtual corpora (also known as supercorpora) Multi-level tokenisation (pdf slides available )
• 11.00-11.30: break
• 11.30-12.00 Makimi Kano: Research on the new usages and meanings of “terror” and comparison with its Japanese equivalent word, using BNC, !ukWac, and JpWac on Sketch Engine
• 12.00-12.30 Atsuko Furuta UMESAKI: Using the Sketch Engine for analysis of the grammatical pattern 'be + pp + to-infinitive
• 12.30-2.00: lunch
• 2.00-2.30 Maria Khokhlova and Jelena Kallas: Estonian word sketches: the case of multi-word lexical verbs (powerpoint slides available )
• 2.30-3.00 Simon Krek: Tagset reduction based on the features needed for the Slovene sketch grammar (powerpoint slides available )
• 3.00-3.30 Jan Pomikalek: Corpus Architect developments and CCBC (Comparable Corpus BootCat)
• 3.30-4.00: break
• 4.00-4.30 Siva Reddy: Compositionality Detection using a Corpus Driven Approach: How to distinguish a "couch potato" from "roast potato"
• 4.30-5.00 Diana McCarthy and Siva Reddy: Semantic tagging (pdf slides available )
• 7.30 Dinner: Sam’s, 1 Paston Place, Brighton BN2 1HA

Thurs 17 March

• 9.00-9.45 Milos Jakubicek: Sketch Engine infrastructure, extensions to CQL (pdf slides available )
• 9.45-10.30 Vojtech Kovar: Sketch diffs by subcorpus, new wordlist form, hypotheses on subcorpora, the ‘character’ search field (pdf slides available )
• 10.30-11.00: break
• 11.00-11.30 Milos Husak: GDEX developments (pdf slides available )
• 11.30-12.00 Diana McCarthy and Siva Reddy: CONLL format (pdf slides available ) / Encoding error markup (pdf slides available )
• 12.00-12.30 Adam Kilgarriff: Terminology, translation, and PRESEMT; word frequency lists and KELLY (powerpoint slides available )
• 12.30-2.00: lunch
• 2.00-2.10 Adam Kilgarriff: Beckerdee introduction
• 2.10-2.40 Holger Hvelplund: Using Sketch Engine with IDM’s DPS for online dictionaries (pdf slides available )
• 2.40-3.30 Discussion
• 3.30-4.00: break
• 4.00-4.30 Priorities for Sketch Engine: summing up, close

With thanks to our sponsors: CUP, HarperCollins, INL, OUP