Publications

Adam Kilgarriff

Journal Papers and Squibs

2008

(Irena Srdanovic Erjavec, Tomaz Erjavec, Kilgarriff) A web corpus and word sketches for Japanese. Japanese Journal of NLP.
2007

Googleology is Bad Science. Computational Linguistics 33 (1): 147-151.
Grammar is to meaning as the law is to good behaviour. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3 (2): 195-198.
2006

(Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell and Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha) Efficient corpus development for lexicography: building the New Corpus for Ireland. Language Resources and Evaluation Journal 40 (2): 127-152.
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
(Philip Edmonds and Kilgarriff) Introduction to the Special Issue on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems. Journal of Natural Language Engineering 8 (4). (Also guest editors for the Special Issue)
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

(Kilgarriff and Joseph Rosenzweig) English Framework and Results Computers and the Humanities 34 (1-2), Special Issue on SENSEVAL.
(Kilgarriff and Martha Palmer) Introduction to the Special Issue on SENSEVAL. Computers and the Humanities 34 (1-2). (Also guest editors for the Special Issue)
Business Models for Dictionaries and NLP International Journal of Lexicography 13 (2). Pp 107-118.
(Wim Peters and Kilgarriff) Discovering Semantic Regularity in Lexical Resources. International Journal of Lexicography 13 (4): 287-312.
1998
Gold Standard Datasets for Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Programs. Computer Speech and Language, 12 (3) Special Issue on Evaluation of Speech and Language Technology, edited by Robert Gaizauskas. 453-472.
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
Dictionary Word Sense Distinctions: An enquiry into their nature. Computers and the Humanities 26 (1-2): 365-387.

PhD Thesis

1992. Polysemy. University of Sussex, UK.

Book Chapters

2006

Word Senses. In Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and Application, ed. Agirre and Edmonds. Chapter 2, pp 29-46. Springer.
(Francis Chantree, Alistair Willis, Kilgarriff and Anne de Roeck) Detecting dangerous coordination ambiguities using word distribution. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Springer.
2005

Use of Computers in Lexicography. Article in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier.
(Hiram Calvo, Alexander Gelbukh and Kilgarriff) Automatic Thesaurus vs. WordNet: A Comparison of Backoff Techniques for Unsupervised PP Attachment. Proc. CICLING, 5th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City. Springer Verlag. Conference best presentation prize.
2003
(Kilgarriff and Rob Koeling) An evaluation of a lexicographer's workbench incorporating word sense disambiguation Proc. CICLING, 3rd Int Conf on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City. Springer Verlag.
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
Generative lexicon meets corpus data: the case of non-standard word uses The Language of Word Meaning. Pierrette Bouillon and Frederica Busa (Eds.) Cambridge University Press: 312-330.
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

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.
(Simon Smith, Scott Sommers, Kilgarriff) Learning words right with the Sketch Engine and WebBootCat: Automatic cloze generation from corpora and the web. Proc CCU, Taipei, Taiwan.
(Simon Smith, Kilgarriff, Scott Sommers) Making better wordlists for ELT: Harvesting vocabulary lists from the web using WebBootCat. DAE conference, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, 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.
(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.
(Simon Smith, Alice Chen and Kilgarriff) 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

(Marco Baroni and Kilgarriff) Large linguistically-processed Web corpora for multiple languages Proc. EACL. Trento, Italy.
(Marco Baroni, Kilgarriff, Jan Pomikalek, Pavel Rychly) WebBootCaT: a web tool for instant corpora Proc. Euralex. Torino, Italy.
Collocationality (and how to measure it) Proc. Euralex. Torino, Italy.
(Simon Krek and Kilgarriff) Slovene Word Sketches Proc. 5th Solvenian/First Intnl Lanugages Technology Conference. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
(Anja Belz and Kilgarriff) Shared task evaluations for HLT: lessons for NLG Proc. Intnl Natural Language Generation Conference. Sydney.
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.
(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

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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

(Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell) Lexical profiling software and its lexicographic applications - a case study. Proc EURALEX. Copenhagen, August: 807-818.

(Kilgarriff and Rob Koeling) Evaluating the WASPbench, a lexicography tool incorporating word sense disambiguation. Proc. ICON International Conference on Natural Language Processing. December, Mumbai. Vikas Publishing, New Delhi: 165-174.
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

(Nadjet Bouayad-Agha and Kilgarriff) Duplication in Corpora. Proc. 2nd CLUK Colloquium. Colchester, Essex, Jan.

95% replicability for manual word sense tagging. Proc. EACL. pp 277-288. Bergen, Norway, June: 277-288.
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

Evaluating word sense disambiguation: progress report. Proc. SALT Workshop on Evaluation of Speech and Language Technology Sheffield, June: 114-120.

Foreground and Background Lexicons and Word Sense Disambiguation for Information Extraction. Proc. Workshop on Lexicon Driven Information Extraction. Frascati, Italy, July: 51-62.

Using Word Frequency Lists to Measure Corpus Homogeneity and Similarity between Corpora. Proc. 5th ACL SIGDAT Workshop on Very Large Corpora: 231-245. Beijing and Hong Kong: 231-245.

What is Word Sense Disambiguation Good For? Proc. Natural Language Processing in the Pacific Rim (NLPRS '97). Phuket, Thailand, December: 209-214.
1996

Which words are particularly characteristic of a text? A survey of statistical approaches. Proc. AISB Workshop on Language Engineering for Document Analysis and Recognition. Sussex, UK.

(Kilgarriff and Raphael Salkie) Corpus similarity and homogeneity via word frequency. Proc. EURALEX. Gothenberg, Sweden: 121-130.

Why chi-square doesn't work, and an improved LOB-Brown comparison. Proc. ALLC-ACH Conference. Bergen, Norway: 169-172.

Word senses are not bona fide objects: implications for cognitive science, formal semantics, NLP. Proc. 5th Conf. on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processsing. Dublin: 193-200.
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
Inheriting Verb Alternations. Proc. 6th European ACL. Utrecht, Holland: 213-221.
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

Where to go if you would like to find out more about a word than the dictionary tells you. Macmillan English Dictionary Magazine, Jan-Feb 2006.
If Dictionaries are free, who will buy them? Kernerman Dictionary News 13, June 2005.
Words in Asia: report on the Asialex Conference EURALEX Newsletter, Autumn 2005.
English Language Gazette, August 2002. How to learn about fish.
ELSNEWS 8.2 (June 1999) Don't be a Dictionary Dentist.

LE Journal (Summer 1998) Lexicographic Quality.
ELRA (European Languages Resources Association) Newsletter 2 (2) 1997: Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Programs.
Sample the lexicon ITRI Technical Report ITRI-97-01, 1997.

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Publications

Adam Kilgarriff

Journal Papers and Squibs

PhD Thesis

Book Chapters

Conference Papers

Book Reviews

Journalism, various