MSc in Lexical Computing and Lexicography

Key members of the MSc teaching team

Sue Atkins was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Brighton for her outstanding contribution to lexicography. She has edited and had a guiding role in a number of innovative and world-leading dictionaries, notably the Collins-Robert and Oxford-Hachette English-French dictionaries. She was a founder member and is a Past President of the European Association for Lexicography and was the driving force behind the British National Corpus, an initiative which led the world, providing a resource for the language industries which remains a model for all other languages to aspire to. She has taught extensively, including, with Rundell, training lexicographic teams for the eleven official African languages of South Africa following the end of apartheid. She has an international reputation in theoretical linguistics, and is currently developing, alongside Charles Fillmore, the Frame Semantics paradigm. Sue has been a Visiting Research Fellow at ITRI since 1998.

Adam Kilgarriff worked as Longman Dictionaries Computational Linguist prior to joining ITRI in 1995. He is a leading authority on the interface between lexicography and language technology and has published extensively in both areas. He has worked with several dictionary publishers and is currently President of the Lexicons Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics. He has taught various courses and tutorials, including one on "lexicography for computationalists", with Rundell, at two major Language Technology conferences in 1999. He will lead the course development team.

Michael Rundell has been working in commercial lexicography for over 20 years and has had editorial responsibility for a number of innovative, successful and highly respected dictionaries for learners of English, including Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1987 and 1995 editions), Longman Language Activator, and the Macmillan English Dictionary (2002). He has taught and lectured extensively to the lexicography and ELT communities (see eg teaching in South Africa with Atkins, and tutorial with Kilgarriff, above). He has taught regularly on the lexicography Masters at the University of Exeter. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at ITRI since 1999.

Raf Salkie has been teaching language and linguistics at the Language Centre since 1980. He has developed the INTERSECT parallel corpus, a widely used and referenced resource. Raf is editor of Languages in Contrast, a new journal exploring the potential of parallel corpora for linguistic research, and he has published extensively in this area.

David Tugwell joined ITRI in 1999 following a PhD in Computational Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently working, with Kilgarriff, on WASPS, an EPSRC-funded lexical computing research project, and has a working knowledge of five languages.