Computational Linguistics Colloquium

Thursday, 25 April, 16:15, Seminar Room, Building 17

Writing the Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Speech

I'll give an account of the lexicographic design principles, and of some of the problems underlying the design decisions of this new dictionary. It is much more ambitious than current dictionaries of phonetics and linguistics, with some 10,000 headword entries compared to a typical 2,000 to 3,000 entries. 4,000 entries are already complete. It covers aspects of all disciplines with something professional and scientific to contribute to the study of speech in its broadest definition -- acoustics, anatomy, physiology, neurology, pathology, semiotics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech science, linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech technology and much else.

If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact Willam Barry.