Expert profile: Adam Kilgarriff

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Description:

   Research Interests:
     + The lexicon; its structure; lexical resources, including published
       dictionaries; how lexicographers write dictionaries, how they
       determine what meanings a word has, and how this relates to
       theoretical discussions of ambiguity and computational work on
       word sense disambiguation. Evaluating word sense disambiguation
       programs

     + Language corpora; word frequency distributions; how these vary
       across language varieties, and how they relate to syntactic and
       lexical hypotheses; corpus interfaces; automatic and
       semi-automatic lexical acquisition from corpora; linked textual
       and audio corpora for spoken language
     + Lexical semantics; formalisms for lexical representation


   Current and recent work includes
   :
     + Organised `Comparing Corpora' workshop, held in conjunction with
       ACL'00, Hong Kong
     + Co-ordinating SENSEVAL, a Word Sense Disambiguation evaluation
       exercise (sponsored by ACL SIGLEX)
     + Member of the Lexicography Masterclass: providing training and
       consultancy in lexicography
     + Preparation of frequency lists from the British National Corpus
     + Measuring similarity between language corpora
     + Assessments of role of WSD technology for Language Engineering

    For more information, please go to
   http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff