Basel, Postgraduate Colloquium
October 1999

Computational lexicography

Dafydd Gibbon, U Bielefeld

The course deals with the following topics:

1. Specific problems of spoken language data as lexicographic input;
2. Lexical frameworks, formalisms, theories, models;
3. Examples of lexical representation and inference;
4. Lexical standards and resources;
5. UNIX tools for lexicography and WWW lexicon interfacing, concordance construction.

Browsable course notes.

Additional course materials in PostScript format:

• baselsli.ps.gz (714011 bytes, compressed for UNIX),
• baselsli.zip (730458 bytes, compressed for Windows).

The materials are somewhat technical in parts, but the course will be mainly concerned with practical tasks and exercises based on some of these materials.

Additional reference materials:

• European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
• The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)
• The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques for Speech Input/Output (COCOSDA)
• Colibri
• Compendium of online dictionaries
• Steven Bird's `Hyperlex' server
• The LDC text and speech annotation page
• Practical examples of hyperlexicon techniques
• EAGLES SLWG TermBank (mSQL)
• Collection of information on lexicographic resources (partly in German)
• Notes on Morphology, Semantics and the Lexicon
• Two lectures on Internet hypertext techniques:
  1. Text description languages (incomplete)
  2. Functions of Language and Web Hypertext Design
• Two lectures on empirical methods:
  
  1. Computer support for data collection and corpus processing (PostScript)
  2. Methods in experimental phonetics and computational phonology (PostScript)
• SAMPA computer readable transcription system.
• EAGLES Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems, ed. Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski (1997), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Check the EAGLES SLWG web site and the publisher's web site for further details of available editions: (1) hard bound in 1 volume incl. CD-ROM; (2) paperback in 4 volumes.