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Adam Kilgarriff
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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; using the web as a corpus.
Lexical semantics; formalisms for lexical representation.
Current and recent research includes:
- automatically finding lexical information in large corpora
- using the web as a source of linguistic data
- measuring similarity between language corpora
- polysemy, metonymy, metaphor, norms and exploitations: the structure
and potential of word meanings
Other projects:
- phase one of the New English-Irish Dictionary (contract to Irish Govt
with Lexicography MasterClass Ltd)
- lecturing and training, in a range of countries and settings
- advising web search companies, machine translations companies, in lexicon structure and lexical resource development
- assessments of role of WSD technology
Outside Interests
Walking, jogging, cycling, preferably up and down mountains. Reading novels. Playing with Boris (age 15), Madeleine (age 11), Raphael (age 2).
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Email: Adam _(at)_ lexmasterclass dot com
Last modified: 18 April 2008