RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY
CURRENT POSITIONS
CURRENT/FUTURE ACTIVITIES
PAST ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
QUALIFICATIONS
CURRENT POSITIONS
CURRENT
/ FUTURE ACTIVITIES
PAST ACTIVITIES
2004
2004 (Aug): EDITOR,
English
collocation studies: The OSTI Report
by John Sinclair, Susan Jones, and Robert Daley,
Continuum Books, London
(ISBN: 0826474896)
2000-4: EXTERNAL SUPERVISOR, PhD Thesis;
Branka Visnjic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia;
"Semantic relations of temporal anteriority-posteriority as expressed
in the vocabulary of contemporary English"
2004: ADVISER to Karen Thomson, Sanskrit Online, University of Texas at
Austin
2004: RESEARCHER with
Deirdre Martin, Panjabi corpus project,
School of Education, Birmingham University
2004: RESEARCHER, Dictionary software projects,
Computational Linguistics Group,
Wolverhampton University
2003-4: CONSULTANT, South Asian Studies, Birmingham International
College/
Halifax University
2003-4: CONSULTANT, Hindi Lexicon project
2004 (Feb): CO-PRESENTER (with Dr Deirdre Martin), "The Analysis of
Text Data", School of Education Research Students Workshop, University
of Birmingham: Analysis of children's talk: Measuring Panjabi
language change
2002
2002 (Nov): SPEAKER, JALT, Shizuoka, Japan, Nov 22-24;
"COBUILD Dictionaries: Language As Chunks, Not Words"
2002 (Nov): SPEAKER, ETA-ROC, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 8-10;
a) "Get Up, Stand Up; Phrasal Verbs in Dictionaries and Corpora"
b) "Words you need to know: The COBUILD New Learner's Dictionary"
2002 (Nov): SPEAKER, Fu Ying College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan: "The Cobuild
Dictionary"
2002 (Nov): SPEAKER, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung,
Taiwan: "The Bank of English Corpus"
2002 (Nov): VISITOR, National Kaohsiung Teacher's University, Taiwan
2002 (Oct): SPEAKER, KOTESOL, Seoul, Korea, Oct 5-6;
a)
"Burning questions, but no burning answers: Collocation and
idiomaticity"
b) "COBUILD dictionary definitions: a powerful but underused resource"
2002 (Jul): CONTRIBUTOR,
Kernerman Dictionary News, Issue no 10, July 2002,
"The Corpus Revolution in EFL Dictionaries" and "Appendix: Analysis of
`sexy' in the 450-million-word Bank of English corpus"
2002 (May/Jun): POSTER CO-PRESENTER (with Constantin Orasan, University
of Wolverhampton), LREC 2002,
"A corpus-based investigation
of junk emails", Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Spain), 27th May - 2nd
June 2002
2002 (Mar): SPEAKER, IATEFL, "Open the black box: corpus-based
classroom
exercises", University of York, 23-27 March 2002
2002 (Feb): INVITED SPEAKER,
"The Bank of English past, present, and future: corpus size,
composition, annotation, and software", 2nd Half-day
Workshop on Computational Language Resources, Feb 8th 2002, ILASH
(Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing, Natural Language
Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of
Sheffield
2002 (Jan): SPEAKER, "Word Surfari: using Corpora for Language Study",
22nd Annual Thailand TESOL International Conference, "INSPIRING CHANGE
IN ELT", Chiangmai, January 17-19, 2002
2002 (Jan): SPEAKER, "Pragmatics and the COBUILD Dictionary",
22nd Annual Thailand TESOL International Conference, "INSPIRING CHANGE
IN
ELT", Chiangmai, January 17-19, 2002
2001
2001 (Nov): SPEAKER, "A lifetime of language experience at each click
!"
JALT, Kitakyushu, Japan, 22-25 Nov 2001
2001 (Nov): INVITED SPEAKER, "Language corpora: how can teachers and
students use these valuable new resources?", The Tenth International
Symposium
and Book Fair on English Teaching (ETA-ROC), Taipei, 16-18 November
2001
2001 (Nov): SPEAKER, "EFL Dictionaries: for Reference and for
Learning",
The Tenth International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching
(ETA-ROC),
Taipei, 16-18 November 2001
2001 (Nov): PANEL MEMBER, "Dictionaries and TEFL" panel discussion, The
Tenth International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching
(ETA-ROC),
Taipei, 16-18 November 2001
2001 (Oct): SPEAKER, "The New Dictionary for the New Millennium:
COBUILD-3", 2001 Korea TESOL International Conference,
`The Learning Environment: The Classroom and Beyond', 13-14 October
2001,
Seoul, South Korea
2001 (Oct): SPEAKER, "Language Corpora on computer and Dictionaries on
CD-Rom", 2001 Korea TESOL International Conference,
`The Learning Environment: The Classroom and Beyond', 13-14 October
2001,
Seoul, South Korea
2001 (Oct): GUEST SPEAKER, "Language corpora for learning and
teaching",
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 12th October 2001
2001 (Oct): CONSULTANT, National College English Course, Shanghai Jiao
Tong University,
Shanghai, China, 5th-12th October 2001
2001 (July): TUTOR, TALLENT ("Teaching and Learning Languages Enhanced
by New Technologies", European Community Socrates Programme, Lingua
Action
A) Workshop, University of Birmingham
2001 (June): PRESENTER, "Towards the Globalization of Business
English?",
(co-author Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton),
COMPLEX 2001 Conference, University of Birmingham, 29-30 June 2001
2001 (June): CHIEF TUTOR, Collins Pre-conference Workshop, COMPLEX 2001
Conference,
University of Birmingham, 28 June 2001
2001 (June): KEYNOTE SPEAKER, "Corpus, Collocation, and Lexical Sets",
at HUSSE (Hungarian Society for the Study of English) Thematic
Conference, "Empirically Based Approaches to Linguistic Description,
University of Debrecen, 21-22 June 2001
2001 (Apr): SPEAKER,
35th Annual IATEFL Conference, Brighton, 17-21 April: "Corpus direct to
your classroom"
2001 (Apr): TUTOR, Corpus Workshop (with Dr Vladimira Minovska) at the
University of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic (funded by
ERASMUS/SOCRATES
and the University of Wolverhampton), 12th-14th April
2001 (Apr): SPEAKER,
Seminar at Czech National Corpus, Charles University, Prague, 11th
April:
"So What's New? The Bank of English 418 million-word corpus!"
2001 (Mar): SPEAKER,
TESOL-Spain, 24th National Convention, "A Quest for Teacher
Development", Seville, 30th March-April 1st:
"Learning and teaching through context - a data-driven approach"
2001 (Mar): SPEAKER,
IWTDIL-2001 (International Workshop on Technology Development in Indian
Languages), Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 26th-30th March
2001:
"Corpora and Languages in Contact: Is there a British variety of
Panjabi?"
2001 (Jan): SPEAKER,
21st Annual Thailand TESOL International Conference,
("The Power of Practice"), The Imperial Queen's Park Hotel,
Bangkok, Jan 18-20:
"Classroom Cornucopia: the COBUILD Dictionary (3rd edition, 2000)
and the Bank of English corpus"
2000
2000 (Dec):
AUTHOR, "Dictionary Making" exercise,
English Online/Actis Ltd website
2000 (Dec):
VISITING LECTURER in
Linguistics,
University of Wolverhampton
(Dictionaries and Corpora: Translation Studies)
2000 (Nov-Jan 2001):
CONSULTANT,
Computational Linguistics, University of Birmingham
2000 (Nov):
CO-PRESENTER (with Dr Deirdre Martin), ELR Seminar (Nov 21), English
Department, University of Birmingham:
"Towards a British variety of Panjabi: developing a bilingual
children's
corpus in Panjabi"
2000 (Nov):
CONSULTANT AND LOCAL RADIO SPOKESPERSON,
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey" Radio Campaign
2000 (Nov-Dec):
ADVISER, PhD Thesis,
Monika Szirmai, University of Debrecen, Hungary
2000 (Nov-Dec): READER, PhD Thesis,
Pernilla Danielsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2000 (Nov):
SPEAKER,
JALT, Shizuoka City, Japan, 2nd-5th November:
"Authority in the Classroom: using the COBUILD Dictionary (3rd edition,
2000) and the Bank of English corpus"
2000 (Nov): GUEST SPEAKER, "Using Corpora Systematically: the integral
relationship between the Bank of English and COBUILD publications",
University of Nagoya, Japan, Nov 1st
2000 (Oct):
SPEAKER,
KOTESOL, 8th Annual Conference of TESOL Korea, Taegu, South Korea, 30th
September - 1st October: "Size matters: creating dictionaries from the
world's largest corpus"
2000 (Sep):
SPEAKER,
Taipei, Taiwan, 11th September:
(1) Bookman Seminar Room (2) China Technical College: "Teaching &
Learning REAL English"
2000 (Sep):
SPEAKER,
Seminar on English Learning for the 21st Century,
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 9th September
(1) Modern English for Education:
"Teaching and Learning REAL English"
(2) Modern English for Career:
"Make English Work for You"
2000 (Sep):
SPEAKER,
China International Publishing Group,
Foreign Languages Press Hall, Beijing, China, 7th September:
"Teaching and Learning REAL English"
2000 (Jul):
GUEST LECTURER,
Postgraduate Seminar in English,
University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, 26th July:
"Authority in the Classroom: dictionaries and language corpora"
2000 (Jul):
GUEST LECTURER,
University of Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil, 24th July:
"An Introduction to Corpus Research"
2000 (Jul):
SPEAKER,
BRAZ TESOL,
7th National Convention,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 17-20 July:
"Authority in the Classroom: COBUILD & the Bank of English"
2000 (Jul):
SPEAKER,
Martins Fontes Bookshop,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14 July:
"Authority in the Classroom: COBUILD & the Bank of English"
Oct 99-Jun 00:
CORPUS AND LEXICOGRAPHIC CONSULTANT,
Bloomsbury Publishing
2000 (Jun):
CO-PRESENTER (with Constantin Orasan,
Computational Linguistics Group,
University of Wolverhampton),
LREC 2000, Athens, 31 May - 2 June:
"An Open Architecture for the Construction and Administration of
Corpora"
Nov 99-Jun 00:
LEXICOGRAPHIC CONSULTANT,
xrefer.com
2000 (May):
CO-AUTHOR
(with D.Martin, M.Bhardwaj,
School of Education, University of Birmingham): Language change
in
young Panjabi/English learners, Speech and Language Therapists,
SIG Bilingualism Study Day, University of Birmingham, May 12th 2000
2000 (May):
CO-AUTHOR
(with D.Martin, M.Bhardwaj,
School of Education, University of Birmingham): Language change
in
young Panjabi/English learners, Centre for Human Communication and
Deafness, University of Manchester, UK, May 11th 2000
Apr 99-Apr 00:
PROJECT MANAGER,
VerbNet Pilot Project,
SIGLEX,
ACL
Feb 00-Apr 00:
CONSULTANT AND LOCAL RADIO SPOKESPERSON,
Times English Dictionary launch
2000 (Mar):
CO-PRESENTER (with Jeremy Butterfield, Collins Dictionaries),
TESOL-Spain 23rd National Convention, Madrid, 24th-26th March:
"Beyond the Dictionary: On-line Learning in the Classroom"
Jul 99-Mar 00:
PROJECT MANAGER, Business English Corpus,
Computational Linguistics
Group,
University of Wolverhampton
co-funded by the European Commission
Language
Resources - Production & Packaging project
LE4-8835
via
ELRA
Feb 99-Jan 00:
AUTHOR, Web articles,
BBC
World Service, Learning English, Watch Your Language
2000 (Jan): SPEAKER, 20th Thailand
TESOL International Conference, Khon Kaen, January 20th-22nd: "The
essence of COBUILD - it's a real little GEM!"
1999
Sep 99-Jan 00 :
VISITING LECTURER in
Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton
(Pragmatics, Morphology, Translation Studies)
1999 (Nov) :
SPEAKER/FACILITATOR, IATEFL
CompSig
One-Day Workshop, University of Westminster:
"How
to Use Corpora in Language Education"
1999 (Nov) :
SPEAKER,
TESOL France, 1999 Colloquium, Paris, 19th-20th November,
Round Table Discussion: "Monolingual EFL Dictionaries"
1999 (Nov) :
SPEAKER,
MSc Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Birmingham,
General Linguistics CG11, "Corpus Lexicography"
1999 (Sept): SPEAKER and CO-AUTHOR,
CALL'99, Exeter University, 9-11 September:
The SELECT project:
Language Engineering in CALL for Learners in the Business Community,
co-authors Prof. Stephen Hagen, Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Brett,
University of Wolverhampton
Jan 99-Oct 99 :
CORPUS CONSULTANT,
Department of German
Studies, University of Birmingham
1999 (Jun) : CO-CONTRIBUTOR,
VerbNET Pilot Project,
SIGLEX-99,
ACL,
Maryland, USA, June 21-22
1999 (May) : VISITING LECTURER in
Linguistics,
University of Wolverhampton
(Computational Linguistics)
1999 (Apr) : CO-AUTHOR,
(with D.Martin, M.Bhardwaj,
School of Education, University of Birmingham): Language change
in young Panjabi/English learners, BAAL 99, University of
Edinburgh, UK, 16th-18th September 1999
1999 (Apr) : CO-AUTHOR,
(with D.Martin, M.Bhardwaj,
School of Education, University of Birmingham): Language change
in young Panjabi/English learners, International Symposium on
Bilingualism,
University of Newcastle, UK, 14th-17th April 1999
1999 (Mar) : CO-AUTHOR,
(with D.Martin, M.Bhardwaj,
School of Education, University of Birmingham): Evidence for
rule and memory based strategies in both languages of young
Panjabi/English learners, AAAL conference, University of
Connecticut at Stamford, USA, 4th-9th March 1999
1997
Sep 97-May 98 :
PROJECT MANAGER,
Dictionary Database,
Helicon Publishers
Aug 97-Jan 98 :
PROJECT MANAGER,
TRACTOR,
TELRI,
Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
1997 (Dec):
ORGANIZER & TUTOR,
1-DAY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR,
INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb and Croatian Academy of
Science and Arts
1997 (Nov) : SPEAKER,
English Language Research Staff/Postgraduate Seminar, University
of Birmingham
1997 (Nov) : SPEAKER,
MSc Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Birmingham,
General Linguistics CG11, "Corpus Lexicography"
1997 (Oct): SPEAKER,
TELRI 3rd European
Seminar, Montecatini, Italy:
TRACTOR
- TELRI Research Archive of Computational Tools and Resources
1997 (Sep):
ORGANIZER & TUTOR, 7-DAY INTERNATIONAL COURSE,
"Computers and Text", 4-10 September,
under the auspices of the
European Society for the
Study of English
4th Conference,
Lajos Kossuth University,
Debrecen, Hungary
1997 (Sep):
CO-CONVENER & SPEAKER,
Seminar 6. Corpus Linguistics and Computational Lexicography,
European Society for the
Study of English,
4th Conference,
Lajos Kossuth University,
Debrecen, Hungary, 5-9 September
1997 (Sep): GUEST LECTURER,
Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
1995-97
CORPUS MANAGER,
COBUILD,
HarperCollinsPublishers, and HONORARY RESEARCH FELLOW, University
of Birmingham
1991-97 : SUPERVISOR/TECHNICAL ADVISER,
MA Dissertations and PhD Theses, University of Birmingham
1996 (Sep) : COURSE TUTOR,
Post-Complex Tutorial, Budapest, Hungary
1996 (Sep): COMMITTEE MEMBER,
Program Committee,
Complex '96 Conference, Budapest, Hungary
1995 (Dec) : GUEST LECTURER, Esterhazy
Karoly Teachers College, Eger, Hungary
1995 (Dec) : GUEST LECTURER, TIT Language
Teachers College, Pecs, Hungary
1995 (Dec) : GUEST LECTURER, University
of Pecs, Hungary
1995 (Nov-Dec) : ORGANIZER & TUTOR,
International Course in Computational Lexicography,
"From Corpus to Dictionary", Lajos Kossuth University,
Debrecen, Hungary, 27 Nov - 2 Dec
1995 (Nov): GUEST LECTURER,
University of Barcelona, Spain
1995 (Nov) : GUEST LECTURER,
University of Vic, Spain
1992-95
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER,
COBUILD,
HarperCollinsPublishers, and HONORARY RESEARCH FELLOW, University
of Birmingham
1995 (May) : PLENARY SPEAKER,
APPI, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 (May) : INVITED SPEAKER, Symposium
on Lexicography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 : PARICIPANT,
Euralex Conference, Amsterdam
1993 (Oct) : SPEAKER,
IATEFL, Krakow, Poland
1993 (Oct) : GUEST LECTURER, Universities
of Poznan, Wroclaw and Slaski, Poland
1993 : PARTICIPANT,
Making Sense of Words, NOED Conference, Oxford
1993 (Apr) : GUEST LECTURER, Universities
of Leon and Malaga, Spain
1992 (Sep) : GUEST LECTURER, University
of Brighton, UK
1992 : PARTICIPANT,
TEI Workshop, Pisa, Italy
1992 : PARTICIPANT, 13th ICAME Conference, University of Nijmegen,
Netherlands
1992 : PARTICIPANT, Euralex Conference, University of Tampere, Finland
1992 (Feb) : INVITED SPEAKER, British Council,
Segovia and Oviedo, Spain
1992 (Feb) : SPEAKER, APIGA, Santiago,
Spain
1992 (Feb) : GUEST LECTURER, Universities
of Valladolid and Leon, Spain
1984-94 : TUTOR/CO-ORGANIZER,
Lexicographer training courses, COBUILD
1991-93 : CO-ORDINATOR/TUTOR,
MA option in Corpus Lexicography, University of Birmingham
1984-92
LEXICOGRAPHER/EDITOR,
COBUILD,
Collins/HarperCollinsPublishers, and
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW,
University of Birmingham
1991 (Apr) : INVITED SPEAKER,
British Institute, Paris, France
1991 (Mar) : SPEAKER,
IATEFL Conference, University of Exeter, UK
1991 : PARTICIPANT,
Using Corpora, NOED Conference, University of Oxford, UK
1990 : PARTICIPANT,
Euralex Conference, University of Malaga, Spain
1985 : PARTICIPANT,
Euralex Seminar: Dictionary and the Language User,
University of Leeds, UK
1974-76
EXECUTIVE OFFICER, COMPUTER PROGRAMMER AND SYSTEMS ANALYST,
Department
of the Environment
1973-74
OVERLAND TRIP TO INDIA
1972-73
SCHOOLTEACHER,
I.L.E.A., London
1971-72
STATIONMASTER, Whittlesford Station, Cambridge;
MUSICIAN (drummer)
1970-71
ASSISTANT MANAGER,
Student's Bookshops Ltd, Cambridge
PUBLICATIONS
1. Dictionaries and
Reference Books
2004: COBUILD Advanced Learner's
Dictionary CD-Rom (Pronunciation Recording Manager)
1999: Hutchinson Educational Encyclopedia (Dictionary Project
Manager)
1997: The Indian Tradition (Author) (in Encyclopedia of
Translation Studies, ed. Mona Baker, Routledge, London)
1995: Cobuild English Guides: 8 SPELLING (Editor)
1995: Cobuild English Dictionary (Editor)
1995: Cobuild Portuguese Bridge Bilingual Dictionary (Senior Editor)
1994: Cobuild on CD-Rom (Development Manager)
1992: Cobuild English Usage (Editor)
1992: BBC English Dictionary (Editor)
1991: Cobuild Student's Grammar (Senior Editor)
1990: Common Names of the Indian Subcontinent (Author)
(Supplement in A Dictionary of First Names, eds. P.Hanks &
F.Hodges, OUP, Oxford)
1990: Cobuild English Grammar (Editor)
1989: Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs (Editor)
1989: Cobuild English Learner's Dictionary (Editor)
1988: Cobuild Essential English Dictionary (Senior Compiler)
1987: Cobuild English Language Dictionary (Senior Compiler)
2. Academic/professional publications
2004: Burning questions, but no burning answers:
collocation and idiomaticity (in KOTESOL 2002 Proceedings)
2004: (Editor)
English
collocation studies: The OSTI Report
by John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley
, London: Continuum Books
2004: Language Corpora on Computer and Dictionaries on CD-Rom
pp 207-216 in KOTESOL Proceedings 2001, eds D.E Shaffer & R.J.
Dickey, Seoul: KOTESOL
2003: Freeze-frame pictures: micro-diachronic variations
in synchronic corpora pp 15-31 in Jozsef Andor, Jozsef Horvath, and
Marianne Nikolov
(eds), `Studies in English Theoretical and Applied Linguistics', Lingua
Franca Csoport, Pecs, Hungary; ISBN 963-641-994-9
2003: Language As Chunks, Not Words pp 288-294 in JALT 2002
Proceedings, eds Malcolm Swanson and Kent Hill, JALT, Tokyo, Japan;
ISBN 4-901352-06-7
2003: (with Deirdre Martin, Mangat Bhardwaj, Reeva Charles)
Language
change in young Panjabi/English children: implications for bilingual
language assessment in Child Language Teaching and Therapy Vol
19: 3, October 2003, pp. 245-265(21) Arnold Journals (Hodder Headline
Group)
2003: Authority in the Classroom: dictionaries
and corpora, COBUILD & The Bank of English (paper given at the
Braz-TESOL 2000 conference, and published in the BrazTESOL Newsletter
March 2003)
2002: Corpus, Collocation, and Lexical Sets,
pp 7-42 in B. Hollosy and J. Kiss-Gulyas (eds) Studies in Linguistics
Vol VI Part I,
(A Supplement to the Hungarian Journal of English and American
Studies),
University of Debrecen, ISSN 1217-2642
2002: A lifetime of language experience at each click, pp
680-688 in PAC3 at JALT 2001 Conference Proceedings, eds Malcolm
Swanson, David McMurray, Keith Lane
2002: The Corpus Revolution in EFL Dictionaries and
Appendix: Analysis of `sexy' in the 450-million-word Bank of English
corpus in
Kernerman Dictionary News, Issue no 10, July 2002
2002: (with Constantin Orasan) A corpus-based investigation
of junk emails, pp 1773-1780 in Proceedings of LREC 2002, Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Spain, 29th-31st May; (eds.) Manuel Gonzalez Rodriguez and Carmen Paz
Suarez Araujo; ELRA, Paris.
2002: Classroom cornucopia: The new COBUILD dictionary and
the Bank of English corpus,
(paper originally presented at Thai TESOL 2001), in Corpus Studies in
Language Education
(special volume from The English Teacher),
ISBN 974-615-076-6, IELE Press
2002: Learning and teaching through context - a data-driven
approach, republished (with permission from TESOL Spain Newsletter)
at the
Developing Teachers website, May Newsletter
2002: Interviewed at Thai TESOL 2002 for article
The Dictionary Revolution by Terry Fredrickson, Editor,
Learning Post, Bangkok Post, 2nd April 2002
2002:
The
Bank of English past, present, and future:
corpus size, composition, annotation, and software, 2nd
Half-day
Workshop on Computational Language Resources, Feb 8th 2002, ILASH
(Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing),
Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science,
University of Sheffield
2002: Pragmatics and the EFL Dictionary, pp 45-47, Conference
Summaries, Selected Presentation Summaries of the 22nd Annual Thailand
TESOL International Conference, "INSPIRING CHANGE IN ELT", Chiangmai,
January 17-19,
2002, ed. Supanee Chinnawongs Ph.D
2001: Learning and teaching through context - a data-driven approach,
pp 9-10 in TESOL Spain Newsletter, Volume 24, Autumn/Winter 2001,
ISSN 1575-8044
2001: Language Corpora: How can Teachers and Students use these
valuable new resources?, pp 59-65 in Selected Papers from the 10th
International Symposium on English Teaching, ETA/ROC, Taipei, Nov 2001,
ISBN 986-7971-05-1
2001: Corpus direct to your classroom, pp 10-14 in
Independence, IATEFL Learner Independence SIG Newsletter, Issue 29,
Summer 2001, ISSN 1026-4329
2001: The Science and Technology of Corpus, and Corpus for
Science and Technology (based on a four-day course given at the
Departamento de Linguistica Aplicada, E.T.S.I. de Minas, Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid; June 15-19 1998), pp 79-114 in Guadalupe Aguado
De Cea and Pilar Duran Escribano (eds) `La Investigacion en Lenguas
Aplicadas:
Enfoque Multidisciplinar', ISBN: 84-95063-16-6; Fundacion Gomez Pardo
publishers; Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
2001: Size Matters: creating Dictionaries from the
World's Largest Corpus, pp 169-180 in 8th Annual KOTESOL Conference
Proceedings, Taegu, 2000, ISSN 1598-0472
2001: (with Jeremy Butterfield) Beyond the Dictionary: On-line
Learning in the Classroom (reprinted in "the news", TESOL France
Newsletter, pp 8-10, No 28, May 2001, ISSN 1266-7552)
2000: "Dictionary Making" exercise,
English Online/Actis Ltd website
2000: Collocation: from silly ass to lexical sets
(in Heffer, C. and Sauntson, H. (eds) 'Words in Context: A Tribute to
John Sinclair on his Retirement'. Birmingham 2000.
2000: (with Jeremy Butterfield) Beyond the Dictionary: On-line
Learning in the Classroom (TESOL Spain Newsletter, Vol 23, pp 3-5,
Autumn/Winter 2000)
2000: (with Bill Dodd) Note on language corpora and software
(pp xiii-xxi in
Working with German Corpora, ed. Bill Dodd, The University of
Birmingham Press)
2000: (with Constantin Orasan) An Open Architecture for the
Construction and Administration of Corpora (pp 793-801, Vol II,
Proceedings, LREC 2000, Athens, Greece, 31 May - 2 June,
2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, eds.
Maria Gavrilidou, George Carayannis, Stella Markantonatou, Stelios
Piperidis, Gregory Stainhauer; ELRA, Paris, France)
2000: (with Diane Nicholls) Peeling an onion: the lexicographer's
experience of manual sense-tagging (paper given at SENSEVAL
Workshop, Herstmonceux, September 1998); pp 85-97, CHum SENSEVAL
Special Issue, no: 34: 1-2, 2000
1999: (with Stephen Hagen, Paul Brett, Ruslan Mitkov) The SELECT
Project: Language Engineering in CALL for Learners in the Business
Community, pp 261-291, CALL & The Learning Community, ed. Keith
Cameron, Elm Bank Publications, Exeter (Proceedings of the Eighth
Biennial Exeter CALL Conference, University of Exeter, Sept 9-11 1999);
ISBN 1-902454-09-X
1999: (with V.Robbins) WP5 Synthesis Report, 43pp, SELECT
(Strategies for European LE-enhanced Communication Training) project,
EC Language Engineering Telematics Applications Programme LE4-8304
1998: Electronic language resources: cornucopia or information
overload?, pp 17-26, Eger Journal of English Studies. Volume II,
ed. E. Abkarovits, Karoly Esterhazy Teachers' Training College, Eger,
Hungary;
ISSN 1417-166X
1998:
TRACTOR
- TELRI Research Archive of Computational Tools and Resources
, pp 111-115, Proceedings of the Third European Seminar,
`Translation Equivalence', Montecatini Terme, Italy, eds. W. Teubert,
E.T. Bonelli and N. Volz, TELRI Association, IDS, Mannheim; ISBN
0-9528026-1-X
1997: Keeping Good Company: Collocation, Corpus and Dictionaries,
pp 31-56, Lexic, corpus i diccionaris: cicle de conferencies 95-96,
eds. IULA, Barcelona, Spain; ISBN 84-477-0609-5
1996: Change and Continuity at COBUILD (1986-96), pp 61-79,
Eger Journal of English Studies, Volume I, ed. E. Abkarovits, Karoly
Esterhazy Teachers' Training College, Eger, Hungary; ISSN 1417-166X
1996: Ethnic, racial and tribal: The language of racism?, pp
129-149, Texts and Practices, eds. C.R. Caldas-Coulthard & M.
Coulthard, Routledge, London, UK; ISBN 0-415-12142-6, 0-415-12143-4
1996: The Data is The Dictionary: Corpus at the Cutting Edge of
Lexicography, pp 117-144, Papers in Computational Lexicography,
COMPLEX'96, eds. F. Kiefer, G. Kiss & J. Pajzs, Research Institute
for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary;
ISBN 963-8461-98-5
1996: Exploiting the Masses: The Corpus-based Study of Language,
pp 141-156, Symposium on Lexicography VII, Copenhagen 1994, eds. A.
Zettersten & V.H. Pedersen, Lexicographica Series Maior 76,
Niemeyer, Tubingen, Germany; ISBN 3-484-30976-8, ISSN: 0175-9264
1996: (with J. Clear, G. Fox, G. Francis, & R. Moon) COBUILD:
the state of the art, pp 303-314, IJCL Vol 1, No 2, Benjamins,
Amsterdam, Netherlands;
ISSN 1384-6655
1995: The Macrocosm and the Microcosm: The Corpus and The Text,
pp 1-16, Linguistic Approaches to Literature: Papers in Literary
Stylistics, ed J. Payne, Discourse Analysis Monograph 17, ELR,
University of Birmingham, UK; ISBN 0-7044-1581-X
1992: Basic access software, section A: word lists,
16pp, NERC-WP5-87, Working Paper for EC Project: Network of European
Reference Corpora, ILC, Pisa, Italy
1992: Basic access software, section B: basic concordancing 2: the
user's perspective, 23pp, NERC-WP5-88, Working Paper for EC
Project: Network of European Reference Corpora, ILC, Pisa, Italy
1992: Data collection, 17pp, NERC-WP6/WP7-57, Working Paper for
EC Project: Network of European Reference Corpora, ILC, Pisa, Italy
1992: Pisa TEI workshop: recoding a Cobuild spoken text, 10pp,
NERC-WP4-49,
Working Paper for EC Project: Network of European Reference Corpora,
ILC, Pisa, Italy
1992: Recoding a TEI text in Cobuild codes, 10pp, NERC-WP3-41,
Working Paper for EC Project: Network of European Reference Corpora,
ILC, Pisa, Italy
1992: (with Sue Smith) Text Encoding at Cobuild, 10pp,
NERC-WP3-38,
Working Paper for EC Project: Network of European Reference Corpora,
ILC, Pisa, Italy
1987: The Process of Compilation, pp 62-85, Chapter 3, Looking
Up, ed. J.M. Sinclair, Collins ELT, London, UK; ISBN:0-00-370256-1
3. Journalism/Publicity
2001 (Oct): Irish
Times on the Web: contribution to article by
John Hearne: "Text Waves"
(on impact of technology on language)
2000 (Nov): Radio Ceredigion (Wales): Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Sunrise Radio (Yorkshire): Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Fosseway Radio 107.9: Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Quay West Radio (Somerset): Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): The Market Tiers 4DC: Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): News Direct 97.3 FM: Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): LBC (London): Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Radio GWR FM (Swindon, W.Wilts, Marlborough): Recorded
Interview: ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Radio 105.4 Leicester Sound FM: Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Century Radio (E. Midlands): Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Alpha 103.2 Radio (Darlington): Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Nov): Real Radio (Cardiff and Newport): Recorded Interview:
ScottishPower "Telephony Survey"
2000 (Apr): BBC Radio Kent: Live Interview: Internet Jargon, Demon
Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): BBC Radio Bristol: Live Interview: Internet Jargon, Demon
Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): BBC Radio West Midlands: Live Interview: Internet Jargon,
Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): AA News Bite: Live Interview: Internet Jargon, Demon
Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): The Market Tiers: Live Interview: Internet Jargon, Demon
Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): BBC Thames Valley FM: Live Interview: Internet Jargon,
Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): Radio Wave 105.2 FM (Solent): Live Interview: Internet
Jargon, Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): BBC Radio Lincolnshire: Live Interview: Internet Jargon,
Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): British Forces Broadcasting Group: Live Interview: Internet
Jargon, Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): Radio Alpha 103.2 FM (Darlington): Live Interview: Internet
Jargon, Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): BBC Radio Shropshire: Live Interview: Internet Jargon,
Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): BBC Radio Jersey: Live Interview: Internet Jargon, Demon
Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): Radio SGR Colchester: Live Interview: Internet Jargon,
Demon Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Apr): Radio XCEL FM: Live Interview: Internet Jargon, Demon
Internet & Times English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Bristol: Live Interview: Times English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio WM (West Midlands): Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): Sunday Business Post (Ireland): Live Interview: Times
English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio York: Live Interview: Times English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Wiltshire: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Ulster: Live Interview: Times English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): LBC (London Broadcasting Company): Live Interview: Language
Change
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Cambridgeshire: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Newcastle: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Leicester: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Gloucester: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Midlands: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Southern Counties: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): London Radio Service: Live Interview: Times English
Dictionary
2000 (Mar): BBC Radio Essex: Live Interview: Times English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): Press Association: Live Interview: Times English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): LBC (London Broadcasting Company): Live Interview: Times
English Dictionary
2000 (Mar): IRN (Independent Radio News): Recorded Interview: Times
English Dictionary
1999 (Dec): BBC World Service (WWW):
Millenniumfest
or Millennial Instant
1999 (Oct): BBC World Service (WWW):
The
`-tastic' creativity of language
1999 (Aug): BBC World Service (WWW):
Look forward in anger or rage?
1999 (Apr): BBC World Service (WWW):
Bad
Language
1999 (Apr): BBC World Service (WWW):
Farewell
impeachment?
1998 (Apr): BBC Radio 2: Recorded Interview: Word Origins
1997 (Dec): BBC Radio 2: Live Interview: American English
1997 (Jun): BBC Radio 2: Live Interview: How many words in English?
1997 (Jun): Library Resources Exhibition, NEC, Birmingham: Bank of
English
1997 (May): BBC English Magazine / Buenos Aires Herald: Lingua
Anglica
1997 (May): HarperCollins Website: Tracking the Living Language
1997 (Apr): Publishing News: personal profile
1997 (Apr): Guardian: Sleaze
1997 (Apr): Bookseller: Party Leaders
1997 (Apr): Independent: People and their -isms
1997 (Apr): Guardian: People and their -isms
1997 (Apr): BBC Radio Nottingham: Live Interview: Sleaze
1997 (Apr): BBC Radio 4/Open Univ: Live Interview: Language and the
Media
1997 (Mar): Independent: Sleaze
1997 (Mar): London News Radio: Recorded Interview: Sleaze
1997 (Mar): BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Shift: Live Interview: Party
Leaders
1997 (Feb): BBC English Magazine: Defining Learners' Dictionaries
1997 (Feb): Independent on Sunday: Dialect Words
1997 (Jan): EL Gazette: Bridge Bilingual Dictionaries
1997 (Jan): CBC (Canada): Live Interview: Dialect Words
1997 (Jan): BBC World Service: Recorded Interview: Dialect Words
1997 (Jan): Guardian Weekly: Learners' Dictionaries
1996 (Dec): Sunday Times: Dialect Words
1996 (Nov): Times City Diary: Budget Day
1996 (Nov): Financial Times TV / CNBC Europe: Live Interview: Budget
Day
1996 (Nov): Greater London Radio: Live Interview: Budget Day
1992 (May): Young People Now: Swearing
1991 (Jun): Practical English Teaching: English in the right order
QUALIFICATIONS
1994 : Visions and
Values
(team building and business awareness)
1994 : Effective Presentation Skills
1992 : Managing People
1992 : Time Management
1980-83 : PhD (Sanskrit)
(to be completed), SOAS, University of London
1980 : BA Hons (1st Class)
Sanskrit, SOAS, University of London
1980 : MA, University of Cambridge
1976 : NCC Certificate in Systems Analysis
1974 : Introduction to Computing and Cobol Programming
1970 : BA Hons (2nd Class)
French and German, University of Cambridge
