ELSNET Summer School 1997
14-25 July 1997

Computational lexicography
for speech and language

Dafydd Gibbon, U Bielefeld

The lexicographic problems posed by speech and language data are very different. 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.

• Draft course materials (PostScript, 382800 Bytes).
• Practical examples of hyperlexicon techniques.
• 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 (to be released shortly).
• ELSNET 1997 Brochure page.
• ELSNET 1997 Student page.

Invitation: If would like specific topics to be dealt with in detail, please mail me your suggestions before the course: