Adam Kilgarriff
1960–2015

Research Interests

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.

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.

Relations between lexicons and corpora.

Also:

• word lists for language learning; word frequency lists
• 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

Outside Interests

Walking, preferably up and down mountains. Reading novels. Sunday morning football with the ten-year-olds.

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Last modified: 1st June 2015