3. Working meeting on Internet lexicography

3rd workshop of the academic network on “Internet Lexicography” (supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Topic "Automatic extraction of lexicographic information"

The availability of large electronic corpora has changed lexicography dramatically (Teubert 1999). Monolingual and multilingual dictionaries are increasingly corpus-based, and this is happening irrespective of publication medium. At the same time, corpus linguists have developed effective tools for searching and analysing corpora, while computational lexicographers and linguists have

contributed to, for example, automatic disambiguation and the development of lexical semantic resources (e.g. ontologies). By using such tools, lexicographers have improved the quality of the content of dictionaries, but the inventory of information in printed dictionaries is little changed.

Since online dictionaries are not subject to space restrictions, they can contain very detailed and completely new kinds of lexicographical information (Haß 2005, Klosa 2010). What information this could be (e.g. frequency, collocations, set phrases) and how lexicographically acquired and automatically compiled information in online dictionaries can be combined, will become clear at the workshop through the introduction of appropriate tools and dictionaries. Thereby, the aim will also be to answer the question of direct connection to the underlying online corpus, as well as the utilisation of word-nets in online dictionaries.

Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2012

19:00 Warm-up

Restaurant „Walthers‘“, Waltherplatz 6, Bozen

Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012 (Seminar 2-3) (öffentlich)

08:45-09:00 Arrival

09:00-09:45 Welcome and presentation of EURAC & the Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism

Andrea Abel (Europäische Akademie Bozen)

09:45-10:30 You can tell a word by the (visual) company it keeps: extracting lexico-semantic information from text and images

Marco Baroni (Università degli Studi di Trento - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Do we need lexicographers? Prospects for automatic lexicography

Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd Brighton)

11:45-12:30 From DWDS-corpora to a German Word Profile - methodological problems and solutions

Jörg Didakowski, Alexander Geyken (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

12:30-14:00 Mittagspause / Lunch break

14:00-14:30 Guided tour through EURAC

14:30-15:15 Towards a Firthian notion of collocation

Stefan Evert, Sabine Bartsch (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

15:15-16:00 Exploration of quantitative phenomena for internet dictionaries, using the example of E-VALBU and KoGra-DB

Roman Schneider (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:15 Dictionary-cum-corpus-query-tools: A step towards more customisation in pedagogical lexicography?

Magali Paquot (Université Catholique de Louvain)

17:15-18:00 Final discussion

(Chair: Andrea Rapp, Technische Universität Darmstadt)

19:00 Social dinner

Restaurant „Vögele“, Goethestr. 3, Bozen

Freitag, 4. Mai 2012 (Seminar 2-3) (intern)

08:45-09:00 Arrival

09:00-09:45 Short presentations

1) On visual approaches towards corpus exploration

Egon Stemle/Verena Lyding/Lionel Nicholas (EURAC Bozen)

2) Usage studies on automatically generated lexicographic information

Carolin Müller-Spitzer (IDS Mannheim)

3) Automatically generated information for lexicographers

Annette Klosa (IDS Mannheim)

09:45-11:00 Working group I – Automatically generated information for lexicographers

(Chair: Andrea Abel, EURAC Bozen)

Working group II – Automatically generated information for users

(Chair: Stefan Engelberg, IDS Mannheim)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Präsentation der Ergebnisse aus den Arbeitsgruppen und Diskussion

(Moderator: Angelika Storrer, Technische Universität Dortmund)

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30  Internal discussion and conclusion

(Chair: Annette Klosa, IDS Mannheim)