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| [ ID = 0222 ] | Adam Kilgarriff |
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| Name | Kilgarriff, Adam |
| Job Title | Senior Research Fellow |
| Organisation | ITRI, Univ of Brighton |
| Address | Lewes Road |
| Postal Code | BN2 4GJ |
| City | Brighton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Phone | + +44 1273 642919 |
| Fax | + +44 1273 642908 |
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| Languages | English |
| Specialism | Speechtechnology:
Corpus statistics Lexicons Word meaning |
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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
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+ 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
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