Publications
Adam Kilgarriff
2009 and earlier on this page; for 2010 and beyond see here
Journal Papers and Squibs
- 2009
- Jan Pomikalek, Pavel Rychly and Kilgarriff Scaling to Billion-plus Word Corpora. Advances in Computational Linguistics. Special Issue of Research in Computing Science Vol 41, Mexico City.
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- Language is never ever ever random. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1 (2): 263-276.
- Informatique et dictionairique. Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée 10 (2): 95-102. (In French.)
- 2003
- (Kilgarriff and Gregory Grefenstette) Introduction to the
Special Issue on Web as Corpus. Computational Linguistics 29 (3). (Also guest editors for
the Special Issue)
- Reprinted in Practical Lexicography: a Reader. Fontenelle, editor. Oxford University Press. 2008.
- 2002
- 2001
- Comparing
Corpora International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (1):
1-37.
- Reprinted in Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Teubert and Krishnamurthy, editors. Routledge. 2007.
- 2000
- 1998
- 1997
- Putting
frequencies in the dictionary. International Journal of
Lexicography 10 (2): 135-155.
- "I don't
believe in word senses" Computers and the Humanities
31: 91-113.
- Reprinted in Practical Lexicography: a Reader. Fontenelle, editor. Oxford University Press. 2008.
- Reprinted in Polysemy: Flexible patterns of
meaning in language and mind Nerlich, Todd, Herman and Clarke, editors. Walter de
Gruyter. Pp 361-392.
- To be
reprinted in Readings in the Lexicon Pustejovsky and Wilks, editors. MIT Press.
- The hard parts of lexicography. International Journal of Lexicography 11 (1): 51-54.
- 1993
PhD Thesis
1992. Polysemy. University of Sussex, UK.
Book Chapters
- 2009
- 2006
- 2005
- 2003
- 2002
- (Kilgarriff and David Tugwell) Sketching words Lexicography
and Natural Language Processing: A Festschrift in Honour of B. T. S. Atkins. Marie-Hélène Corréard (Ed.) EURALEX: 125-137.
- 2001
- 1995
- Inheriting Polysemy Computational
Lexical Semantics. Patrick St. Dizier and Evelyne Viegas (Eds.) Cambridge University Press: 319-335.
- (Kilgarriff and Gerald Gazdar) Polysemous
Relations Grammar and Meaning: Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons. Frank Palmer (Ed.) Cambridge University Press: 1-25.
Conference Papers
- 2009
- Simple Maths for Keywords Proc. Corpus Linguistics, Liverpool.
- Kilgarriff, Vojtech Kovar and Pavel Rychlý Tickbox Lexicography Proc. "eLexicography in the 21st Century", Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- Corpora in the classroom without scaring the students Proc. 18th Intntnl Symposium on English Teaching, Taipei.
- Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikalek
Corpus Factory Proc. Asialex, Bangkok.
- Abhilash Inumella, Kilgarriff, Vojtech Kovar Associating Collocations with Dictionary Senses Proc. Asialex, Bangkok.
- Simon Smith, Kilgarriff, Scott Sommers, Gong Wen-liang, Wu Guang-zhong
Automatic Cloze Generation for English Proficiency Testing Proc. LTTC conference, Taipei.
- 2008
- (Kilgarriff, Milos Husák, Katy McAdam, Michael Rundell, Pavel Rychlý)
GDEX: Automatically finding good dictionary examples in a corpus. Proc EURALEX, Barcelona, Spain.
- (Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychlý)
Finding the words which are most X. Proc EURALEX, Barcelona, Spain.
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The Sketch Engine as a Common Platform for Showcasing Language Resources. Proc FASSBL (Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages), Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- (Simon Smith, Scott Sommers, Kilgarriff) Learning words right with the Sketch Engine and WebBootCat: Automatic cloze generation from corpora and the web. 25th Conference of English Teaching and Learning in R.O.C. National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
- (Simon Smith, Kilgarriff, Scott Sommers)
Making better wordlists for ELT: Harvesting vocabulary lists from the web using WebBootCat. Conference and Workshop on TEFL and Applied Linguistics, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
- (Simon Smith, Scott Sommers, Kilgarriff) Learning words right with the Sketch Engine and WebBootCat: Meaningful lexical acquisition from corpora and the web. CamTESOL conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- (Simon Smith, Scott Sommers, Kilgarriff) Automatic cloze generation: getting sentences and distractors from corpora. 8th TALC (Teaching and Language Corpora conference), Lisbon Portugal.
- (Kremena Ivanova, Ulrich Heid, Sabine Schulte im Walde, Kilgarriff, Jan Pomikalek)
Evaluating a German Sketch Grammar: A Case Study on Noun Phrase Case. Proc LREC. Marrakech, Morocco.
- (Marco Baroni, Francis Chantree, Kilgarriff and Serge Sharoff)
CleanEval: a competition for cleaning web pages. Proc LREC. Marrakech, Morocco.
- 2007
- (Pavel Rychly and Kilgarriff)
An efficient
algorithm for building a distributional thesaurus. Proc ACL. Prague, Czech Republic.
-
(Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins and Michael Rundell) BNC Design Model Past its Sell-by. Corpus Linguistics Conference, Birmingham, UK.
- (Tomaz Erjavec, Kilgarriff and Irean Srdanovic) A large public-access corpus for Japanese. Inaugural Workshop on Computational Japanese Studies, Ikaho, Japan.
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(Simon Smith, Chu-Ren Huang, Kilgarriff and Mei-Rong Chen)
A Corpus Query Tool
for SLA: Learning Mandarin with the help of the Sketch Engine
Proc. PALC (Pratical Applications in Language and Computers). Lodz, Poland.
- 2006
- 2005
- Putting
the corpus into the dictionary Proc. MEANING Workshop. Trento, Italy, February.
- (Kilgarriff, Chu-Ren Huang, Pavel Rychly, Simon Smith, David Tugwell) Chinese word sketches. Proc. Asialex, Singapore, June.
- Linking Dictionary and Corpus. Proc. Asialex, Singapore, June.
- Reprinted under title: "Putting
the corpus into the dictionary" in Perspectives in Lexicography: Asia and Beyond Ooi, Pakir, Talib and Tan, editors. K Dictionaries, 2009
- (Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell and Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha) Corpus creation for lexicography. Proc. Asialex, Singapore, June. Also Proc. Conference of the Chinese Bilingual Lexicography Commission, Guangzhou, November.
- (Kilgarriff, Chu-Ren Huang, Jan Pomikálek, Michael Rundell, Pavel Rychly, Simon Smith, David Tugwell, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha) Word sketches for Irish and Chinese. Proc. Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham, UK. July.
- (Francis Chantree, Kilgarriff, Anne de Roeck, Alistair Willis) Disambiguating Coordinations Using Word Distribution Information. Proc RANLP, Bulgaria.
- (Chen Guohua, Liang Maocheng and Kilgarriff) The interface between corpus and dictionary compilation. Proc. Conference of the Chinese Bilingual Lexicography Commission, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, November. (In Chinese.)
- (Chu-Ren Huang, Kilgarriff, Yiching Wu, Chih-Ming Chiu, Simon Smith, Pavel Rychly, Ming-Hong Bai, Keh-Jiann Chen)
Chinese Sketch Engine and the Extraction of Grammatical Collocations. Fourth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, in association with IJCNLP, Jeju Island, Korea.
- 2004
- How dominant is the commonest sense of a word? In: Text, Speech, Dialogue. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 3206. Sojka, Kopecek and Pala, Eds. Springer Verlag: 103-112.
- Reprinted in Lexicology: Critical concepts in Linguistics Hanks, editor. Routledge, 2007
- (Rada Mihalcea, Timothy Chklovski and Kilgarriff) The Senseval-3 English Lexical Sample Task. Proc. Senseval-3: Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text. Barcelona, July: 25-28.
- (Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychly, Pavel Smrz and David Tugwell The Sketch Engine Proc. Euralex. Lorient, France, July: 105-116.
- Reprinted in Lexicology: Critical concepts in Linguistics Hanks, editor. Routledge, 2007
the only options
- 2003
- Thesauruses for Natural Language Processing. Keynote lecture. Proc. Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLPKE). Beijing, October.
- What computers can and cannot do for lexicography, or, Us precision, them recall. Keynote lecture. Proc. ASIALEX. Tokyo, August.
- (Kilgarriff, Roger Evans, Rob Koeling, Michael Rundell, David Tugwell) WASPBench: a lexicographers' workstation incorporating word sense disambiguation. Demo and research note. Proc. European ACL. Budapest, April.
- (Kilgarriff, Rob Koeling, David Tugwell, Roger Evans)
An evaluation of a lexicographer's workbench: Building
lexicons for machine translation. Proc. European Assoiciation for Machine Translation Workshop on MT tools. Budapest, April.
- (Tomaz Erjavec, Roger Evans, Nancy Ide and Kilgarriff) The CONCEDE lexical databases. Proc. COMPLEX workshop on Computational Lexicography. Budapest, April.
- No-bureaucracy evaluation.
Proc. Workshop on Evaluation Initiatives in NLP, European ACL. Budapest, April.
- Linguistic
Search Engine Proc. Corpus Linguistics 2003. Lancaster, March.
- 2002
- 2001
- (Gabriela
Cavaglià and Kilgarriff) Corpora from the Web. Proc. 4th CLUK colloquium. Sheffield, January.
- Web as Corpus. Proc. Corpus
Linguistics 2001. Lancaster, UK. March.
- Reprinted in Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a widening
discipline, Sampson and McCarthy,editors. Continuum International.
- (Kilgarriff and David Tugwell) WORD SKETCH:
Extraction and Display of Significant Collocations for Lexicography.
Proc. ACL workshop on COLLOCATION: Computational Extraction, Analysis and
Exploitation. Toulouse, July: 32-38.
- (Kilgarriff and David Tugwell) WASP-Bench: an
MT Lexicographers' Workstation Supporting State-of-the-art Lexical
Disambiguation. Proc. MT Summit VIII. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September: 187-190.
- English Lexical Sample
Task Description. Proc ACL-SIGLEX SENSEVAL workshop, Toulouse, July: 17-20.
- (Kilgarriff and David Tugwell) WASPBENCH: a lexicographic tool supporting
WSD. Proc. ACL-SIGLEX SENSEVAL workshop. Toulouse, July: 151-154.
- 2000
- (Kilgarriff and Joseph
Rosenzweig) English SENSEVAL: Framework and Results. Proc.
Second Intnl Conf on Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece: 1239-1244.
- (Kilgarriff and Colin
Yallop) What's
in a thesaurus? Proc. Second Intnl Conf on Language Resources
and Evaluation. Athens, Greece: 1371-1379.
- (Tomaz Erjavec, Nancy Ide, Roger Evans and Kilgarriff) The
Concede Model for Lexical Databases Proc. Second Intnl Conf on
Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece: 355-362.
- (Nancy Ide, Kilgarriff and Laurent Romary) A formal model of
dictionary structure and content. Proc. EURALEX. Stuttgart, Germany: 113-126.
- (Kilgarriff and David
Tugwell) Harnessing the Lexicographer in the Quest for Accurate
Word Sense Disambiguation. Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop on Test, Speech,
Dialogue (TSD 2000). Brno, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
Springer-Verlag: 9-14.
- 1999
- 1998
- SENSEVAL:
An Exercise in Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Programs. Proc.
EURALEX. Liège, Belgium, August: 167-174.
- Bridging the gap between
lexicon and corpus: convergence of formalisms Proc. LREC Workshop on
Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources. Granada, Spain, May.
- (Kilgarriff and Tony Rose) Measures for corpus similarity
and homogeneity Proc. 3rd Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP-3). Granada, Spain, June: 46-52.
- SENSEVAL:
An Exercise in Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Programs. Proc.
First Intnl Conf on Language Resources and Evaluation. Granada, Spain: 581-588.
- The
Generative Lexicon and the Nunbergian Lexicon. Proc. Utrecht Congress
on Storage and Computation in Linguistics. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- ( Roger
Evans and Kilgarriff) MRDs, Dictionaries, and How To Do Lexical
Engineering. Proc. Second
Language Engineering Convention. London: 125-134.
- 1994
- The Myth of Completeness and
Some Problems with Consistency. Proc. EURALEX. Amsterdam: 101-106.
- Corpus
Use at Longman. Proc. Teaching and
Language Corpora (TALC). Lancaster, UK.
- A
Dictionary for Language Generation. Papers on Computational Lexicography. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 127-136.
- 1993
- 1992
- Inheriting
Polysemy. Proc. Second Seminar
on Computational Lexical Semantics. Toulouse, France: 198-211.
- 1991
- Corpus
Word Usages and Dictionary Word Senses: What is the Match? Using Corpora: Proc. Seventh Ann. Conf. of the
UW Centre for the New OED. Oxford: 23-29.
- 1990
- An
Analysis of Distinctions Between Dictionary Word Senses. Papers on Computational Lexicography.
Balatonfured, Hungary: 111-126.
Book Reviews
- Christiane
Fellbaum, ed.
WordNet: an electronic lexical database. Review in Language
76 (3) 2000: 706-708.
- Randolph Quirk Grammatical and Lexical Variance in
English. Review in Linguistics 36, 1998: 209-212.
- Chengming
Guo Machine
Tractable Dictionaries: Design and Construction Review in Linguistics
35 (5), 1997.
- Yorick
Wilks, Brian Slator and Louise Guthrie Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers and
Meanings. Review in Linguistics 35 (5), 1997.
- Henri
Béjoint
Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries. Review
in Linguistics 34 (6), 1996. Pp 1278-1281.
- Donald
Walker, Antonio Zampolli and Nicoletta Calzolari Automating the
Lexicon: Research and Practice in a Multilingual Environment. Review in Machine
Translation Review 3, 1996. Pp 35-38.
- Douglas
Biber
Dimensions of Register Variation. Review
in Journal of Natural Language Engineering 1 (4), 1995: 396-399.
- Gregory
Grefenstette
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery. Review in Journal of
Natural Language Engineering. 1 (4), 1995: 396-399.
- Christina
Alm-Alvius The
English Verb See: A Study in Multiple Meaning. Review in Linguistics
33 (3), 1995. Pp 611-613.
- Garrison
Cottrell A
Connectionist Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation. Review in AISB
Quarterly 72, 1990. Pp 41-42.
Journalism, various
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