CURRICULUM VITAE
Patrick
Wyndham Hanks
PROFILE
I am a lexicographer and
corpus linguist. I also have experience of teaching at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels, and I am a frequent invited speaker at conferences. My
research involves both application of computational techniques to lexicography
and applications of lexicography in computational linguistics. The basic
problem addressed by this research is the relationship between word meaning and
word use, with practical applications in language engineering, language
teaching, and lexicography. In my spare time I am also a
student of names – editor in chief of the Dictionary of American
Family Names (Oxford University
Press, New York, 2003), a summary of the origin and history of over 70,000
family names, which includes contributions from over thirty of the world’s
leading experts on personal names. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D. Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic M.A. English
Language and Literature, University College, Oxford, England B.A. English
Language and LiteratureUniversity College, Oxford, England: winner
of Open Exhibition. POSITIONS HELD
2006-present Associate Professor, Natural Language Processing Department, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2003-2006 Gastwissenschaftler,
Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie
der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany I was a visiting scientist at the
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, acting (among other things) as planner
and adviser for a new corpus-based dictionary of the German language and
adviser to a project analysing German collocations, phraseology, and idioms. I
was also a consultant to various
other lexicographical projects in other parts of the world, including the
forthcoming Patakis Dictionary of Modern Greek, the forthcoming Malay
dictionary of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Kuala Lumpur), and the Centre for Czech
Computational Lexicography, based in Prague and Brno. 2002-2006 Adjunct Professor, Department of
Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA In this role, I taught corpus analysis and
computational lexicography as part of the program ‘Advanced Topics in Computer
Science’. I also contributed to courses on the origins of language and the
history of English. My research at Brandeis applied
prototype theory and generative lexicon theory to practical corpus analysis,
with some reference to frame semantics. With a group of colleagues, I was
building a context dictionary of English for automatic semantic interpretation
of unrestricted text, of which I was co-principal investigator. This was a joint project
with the Masaryk University in Brno, where a similar analysis was being
undertaken for the Czech language. 2002-2005
Editor for Lexicography, Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics, 2nd edition (ELL2),
Elsevier, Oxford, England ELL2 is a major reference work of
14 projected volumes, to be published in November 2005. For it, I commissioned,
edited, and have seen through to publication over 80 articles on lexicography
and onomastics, covering both theoretical issues such as definitions,
phraseology, etymology, etc., and the history and current status of
lexicography in all the world’s major languages and regions. I also wrote six
of the major articles. 2000-2002 Chief
Lexical Analyst, Lexeme/Lingomotors, Cambridge, MA, USA In this role, I developed applications for improving the relevance and
accuracy of information retrieval by enhancing the lexicon with related search
terms -- “breaking the tyranny of text matching” -- and developing systems for
word-senses disambiguation and inferencing, using corpus analysis, in a lexicon
for natural-language understanding. I also worked on problems of named-entity
recognition. 2000 Visiting
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, USA In this role I taught corpus linguistics and
computational lexicography and continued my corpus-based research on
syntagmatic prototypes in the lexicon. 1999-2000 Visiting
Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England Following the success of the
Senseval Project in 1997-8 and its use of the Hector data, I
was invited to recruit and direct a team of corpus lexicographers working on
the NSF-funded VerbNet Pilot Project based at the Universities of Sheffield
(UK) and Pennsylvania. 1998, 2002 Visiting Lecturer,
Department of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic I taught courses in computational lexicography, corpus analysis, and academic
writing in English. 1990-2000 Chief Editor, Current English
Dictionaries, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England I was responsible for the
successful completion and publication of all OUP’s dictionaries of current
English in the 1990s, including The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993), the Oxford English Reference
Dictionary (1994), and the Concise
Oxford Dictionary, 9th edition (1995). I
introduced computational corpus analysis to Oxford dictionaries, culminating in
the New Oxford Dictionary of English
(1998), which made extensive use, not only of corpus evidence and computing,
but also of recent developments in cognitive linguistics and the philosophy of
language. I was responsible for developing lexicographical methodology,
determining editorial policy, managing budgets, and staff recruitment and
training. 1991-93 Principal investigator: the Hector project, Systems Research Center (SRC), Digital Equipment Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, USA The Hector Project was a research project into new techniques in corpus analysis and text handling, jointly funded by Oxford University Press and Digital Equipment Corporation. It resulted in a new approach to lexicography in Oxford and provided a benchmark for computational meaning analysis (e.g. in the Senseval project). The Hector project also contributed significantly to the development of the Altavista web search engine. 1983-90 Concurrently Chief Editor, Collins English Dictionaries and Editorial Director, Cobuild, Birmingham; Research Fellow in the School of English, University of Birmingham, England I was responsible for the development of all Collins’ English-language
lexicography, including the highly innovative Cobuild project, described by
Professor David Wiggins, Wykeham Professor of Logic in the University of
Oxford, as “the first really significant advance in the handling of word
meaning since the 17th-18th century”. 1987-90 Visiting Scientist, Linguistics Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA I was a member of an interdisciplinary research group at Bell Laboratories, working on statistical analysis of the lexicon using large corpora. The papers of which I am co-author have been influential on subsequent work on the lexicon and are widely cited. 1980-83 Director, Names Research Unit, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, England This research developed new ways
of investigating the history and distribution of personal names. Publications included A Dictionary
of Surnames (Oxford, 1988) and A
Dictionary of First Names (Oxford, 1990). 1980 Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Furudals Bruks Kurscentrum, Sweden Among the fruits of this interlude in my career was a very successful textbook for foreign students of business English, published by Cambridge University Press. 1970-79 Editor,
Collins English Dictionary I wrote the original detailed plan outlining the design and methodology for this best-selling British dictionary in 1970 and saw it through to publication nine years later. Compilation involved management of 30 staff and a large number of specialist contributors. I established the use of computer technology in dictionary compilation. 1965-70 Editor,
Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary
I joined Paul Hamlyn Publishers as an assistant editor in 1964 and the following year was appointed editor of this major new dictionary, which was published in 1971. 1963-64 Trainee
Editor, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. I received an excellent training as a text editor in the editorial department of a traditional British publishing house, and processed many school texts books, monographs, novels, and other works from manuscript to publication. Membership of Academic Societies
European Association for Lexicography Dictionary Society of North America Association for Computational Linguistics American Name Society Society for Name Studies in Great Britain and Ireland English Place Name Society Consultancies, Keynote Lectures, and Invited Courses
I have served as a consultant, evaluator, adviser, and
visiting scientist for a wide variety of institutions, both in the computing
and publishing areas of the private sector, and in the public sector. These
include Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), Patakis Publishers (Athens, Greece), Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia), the Centre for Czech Computational Lexicography
(Prague/Brno, Czech Republic), AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ,
USA), Elsevier Publishers (Oxford, England, and Amsterdam, England), Digital
Equipment Corporation (Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA), Xerox
European Research Centre (Meylan, France), IBM Linguistic Research (Yorktown Heights,
NY, USA), DARPA (USA), the British Council (UK), the Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (UK), and DG XIII of the European Community. I am a member of the editorial board of the International
Journal of Lexicography and the International
Journal of Corpus Linguistics, and have
served on the program committees for numerous conferences in computational
linguistics and lexicography. Listed below are some of the main invited lectures and
courses which I have given outside my ‘home’ institution during the past 25 years. April 2006 Invited lecture, 'English as an International Medium of Communication' at the 75th aniversary celebrations of Xiamen University, China. July 2006 Training course, modern methods in advanced lexicography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Engand
June 2005
Invited
keynote lecture, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’, Complex '05, Research Institute for
Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary: Sept. 2004 Invited
plenary lecture, ‘Common Sense about Word Meaning’, Text, Speech, and Dialog
Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Feb. 2004 Invited
lecture, ‘Corpus Pattern Analysis’, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,
USA July 2004 ‘Corpus
Pattern Analysis’, biennial meeting of the European Association for
Lexicography, University of Southern Brittany, Lorient, France. April 2004 Invited courses of lectures on Corpus Analysis,
Meaning, Metaphor, and Lexicography at the Universities of Poznań and
Opole, Poland Jan. 2004 Panelist
on metaphor and idioms, Global WordNet Conference, Brno, Czech Republic Dec. 2003 Invited
presentations, international conference on semantic tagging, Charles
University, Prague, Czech Republic Nov. 2003 Invited
lecture on corpus linguistics, University of Bonn, Germany Nov. 2003 Invited
lecture on the Theory of Norms and Exploitations, University of Sheffield, England May 2003 Invited
lecture, ‘Norms and Exploitations’, Berlin Academy of Sciences, Germany Dec. 2002 Course
of invited lectures on computational lexicography and empirical methods in
corpus analysis, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic May 2002 Course
of invited lectures, ‘Computational Lexicography and Empirical Corpus Analysis’,
University of Lecce, Apulia, Italy June 2002 Visiting
lecture: ‘Lexical Analysis’, University of Brighton, England Aug. 2001 Keynote
lecture, Asialex, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea: ‘The Probable and
the Possible: Lexicography in the Age of the Internet’ July 2001 (with
James Pustejovsky) Tutorial on very large lexical databases, Association For Computational Linguistics,
Toulouse, France Aug. 2000 Keynote
speaker: Euralex International Conference, Institute for Computational
Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Germany Sept. 1999 Keynote
speaker: Workshop on Text, Speech, and Dialog, University of Western Bohemia,
Czech Republic Sept. 1999 Lecture
on American Family Names, 20th
International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia,
Spain May 1999 Keynote
lecture: Dictionary Society of North America conference, University
of California at Berkeley, CA:
international audience May 1999 Invited
lecture: ‘Mapping Syntax onto Semantics: A Lexicographical Approach’, Information Sciences
Institute, University of Southern California, Santa Monica, CA April 1999 Invited
lecture: ‘Dr Johnson and Modern Lexicography’, English Department, Masaryk
University, Brno, Czech Republic April 1999 Course
on Computational Lexicography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic March 1999 Invited
lecture, ‘Johnson and Modern Lexicography’: the Johnson Society, Lichfield,
England: Sept. 1997 Course:
‘Computers and Text’, European Society for the Study of English, meeting
at the Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary June 1997 Keynote
speaker: International Conference on Practical Applications of Large Corpora,
Duo Colloquium, held at the University of Lodz, Poland Jan. 1997 Invited
speaker on dictionaries; the current state of the art, at the Modern Language
Association, Washington DC, USA Dec. 1995 Leader,
World-Bank-funded course on new technologies (‘from Corpus to Dictionary’) at
Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary: Nov. 1995 Mathesius
lectures: ‘New Developments in Lexical Analysis’, Charles University, Prague,
Czech Republic Sept. 1995 Keynote
speaker, Euralex Conference on Meaning and Translation, University of Lodz,
Poland March 1995 Invited
Speaker, Association for Computational Linguistics (European Chapter), Dublin,
Ireland Nov. 1994, 1996, 1998 Invited Speaker, University of Sheffield, England:
‘Lexicography and the English
Language’. Open Day for prospective English Language students June 1994 Invited
Speaker, Complex '94, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest, Hungary: April 1993 Invited
participant: four-day international seminar at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, on
universals in the lexicon, organized jointly by the University of Stuttgart and
Brandeis University Sept. 1992 Invited
seminar series, ‘Word Meaning and Word Use’, Computing Research Laboratory, New
Mexico State University, NM, USA Jan. 1991 Invited
lecture, European Colloquium on Linguistic Engineering, Versailles, France: ‘The Role of Dictionaries
in Language Engineering’ Oct. 1990 Invited
participant, DARPA and NSF workshop on the lexicon, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA, USA Aug. 1990 (with
Judith Klavans, IBM): series of four tutorials for computational linguists on the role of large
text corpora in building natural language systems, COLING, Helsinki, Finland March 1990 Invited
seminar, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY: ‘Using
Corpus-based Statistics in Language Analysis’ Dec. 1989 Public
Lecture: ‘Words and Names’, University of Essex, England, as part of the
university's 25th anniversary celebrations Sept. 1989 Invited
panelist: Euralex workshop on the lexicon, St Catherine's College, Oxford June 1989 Invited
lecture, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University: ‘Automatic
Word Sense Disambiguation’ May 1989 Invited
lecture, International Group of Educational Publishers, Glasgow: ‘Corpus-based
Dictionaries’ Feb. 1989 Invited
lecture, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA: `Semantics in the Dictionary’ May 1988 Invited
seminar, International Group of Educational Publishers, Barcelona, Catalonia: ‘New
Developments in Lexicography and Dictionary Publishing’ Jan.1988 Invited
seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow: ‘Word Meaning’ Oct. 1987 Series
of public lectures in Lyons, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Paris: ‘A dictionary
that will help foreign learners write and speak more idiomatically’ July 1987 Invited
lecture, the American School, Istanbul, Turkey: ‘How non-native speakers can
learn to use English more normally’ July 1987 Invited
lecture, University of Istanbul, Turkey: ‘What is Idiomatic English?’ June 1987 Invited
lecture, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces, NM: ‘Lexical Analysis’ Sept. 1986 Keynote
lecture: ‘Typicality and Meaning Potentials’: Euralex International Congress,
ETH Zürich, Switerland June 1984 Course
leader: in-service teacher training for Lodz Technical University and Lodz
Medical Academy, Poland; organized by the British Council May 1983 Course
leader, in-service teacher training for the English Department, University of
Katowice, Poland, organized by the British Council PUBLICATIONS
I. Corpus Linguistics and Lexicology
Forthcoming Critical Concepts in Lexicology, a six-volume international and interdisciplinary
collection
of papers, edited with an introduction by Patrick Hanks. London: Routledge. Forthcoming Norms
and Exploitations: Corpus, Computing, and Cognition in Lexical Analysis.
MIT Press 2006a (with J. Pustejovsky) ‘A Pattern Dictionary for Natural Language Processing’ in Revue française de linguistique appliquée 10 (2)
2006b ‘Metaphoricity is a Gradable’ in A. Stefanowitsch and S. Gries (eds.): Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics. Vol. 1: Metaphor and Metonymy. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter 2005d Articles
on ‘Lexicography’, ‘English Lexicography’, ‘American Lexicography’ (with J. Sheidlower), ‘Definition’,
‘Personal Names’. ‘Proper
Names’, and ‘Nicknames’ in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2). Oxford: Elsevier. 2005c ‘Metaphors
and Meanings: a Lexicographical Approach’ in F. Kiefer, G. Kiss, and J. Pajzs
(eds.) Papers in Computational Lexicography: Complex 2005. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 2005b ‘Johnson
and Modern Lexicography’ in
International Journal of
Lexicography 18:2.
2005a ‘Similes and Sets: the English Preposition like’
in R. Blatná and V. Petkevič (eds.): Jazyky
a jazykovĕda (Languages and Linguistics: Festschrift for Professor Fr.
Čermák). Prague: Philosophy
Faculty of the Charles University 2004 ‘The Syntagmatics
of Metaphor’ in International Journal of Lexicography 17:3. 2003 ‘Lexicography’
in Ruslan Mitkov (ed.): Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford
University Press 2002 ‘Mapping Meaning onto Use’ in Marie-Hélène Corréard
(ed.): Lexicography and Natural
Language Processing: a Festschrift in honour of B. T. S. Atkins.
Euralex 2001 ‘The
Probable and the Possible: Lexicography in the Age of the Internet’ in AsiaLex
Proceedings. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2000a ‘Do
Word Meanings Exist?’ in Computers and the Humanities 34 2000b ‘Contributions
of Lexicography and Corpus Analysis to a Theory of Language Performance’
in Euralex 2000 Proceedings. IMI Stuttgart.
2000c ‘Immediate Context Analysis: distinguishing meanings by studying usage’ in Chris Heffer and Helen Sauntson (editors): Words in Context: A Tribute to John Sinclair on his Retirement. University of Birmingham ELR Discourse analysis Monograph No. 18. 1999 ‘English
Phraseology and Idiom Dictionaries’ in G. Corpas Pastor (ed.) Las lenguas de Europa: Estudios de fraseología, fraseografía y
traducción. Comares,
Granada 1998 ‘Enthusiasm
and Condescension: Changing Norms of Meaning and Use’ in T. Fontenelle et al.
(eds.): Euralex'98 Proceedings 1997 ‘Lexical
Sets: Relevance and Probability’ in B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and M. Thelen
(eds.) Translation and Meaning, Part 4. School of Translation and
Interpreting, Maastricht, The Netherlands 1996a ‘Contextual
Dependency and Lexical Sets’ in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
1 (1). John Benjamins 1996b (with
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk): ‘Completive Particles and Verbs of Closing in
English’ in E. Weigand and F. Hundsnurscher (eds.) Lexical Structures and
Language Use. Max
Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1994a (with
K. Church, W. Gale, D. Hindle, and R. Moon) ‘Lexical Substitutability’ in B. T. S. Atkins and A.
Zampolli (eds.), Computational Approaches to the Lexicon. Oxford
University Press 1994b ‘Linguistic
Norms and Pragmatic Exploitations, Or Why Lexicographers need Prototype Theory,
and Vice Versa’ in F. Kiefer, G. Kiss, and J. Pajzs (eds.) Papers in
Computational Lexicography: Complex '94.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1993 ‘Lexicography:
Theory and Practice’ in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of
North America, vol. 14 1992a ‘Computational
Analysis and Definitional Structure’ in F. M. Dolezal, A. Kucera, A. Rey, H. E.
Wiegand, W. Wolski, and L. Zgusta (eds), Lexicographica 8.
Niemeyer 1991a ‘Evidence
and Intuition in Lexicography’ in J. Tomaszczyk and Barbara
Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.), Meaning and Lexicography. John
Benjamins 1991b ‘Towards
a Statistical Dictionary of Modern English’ in T. Magay (ed.) Budalex '88:
Proceedings of the Third Euralex International Congress. Budapest 1991c (with
K. Church, W. Gale, and D. Hindle) ‘Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis’ in U.
Zernik (ed.), Lexical Acquisition: Using On-line Resources to Build a
Lexicon. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1989a (with
K. Church) ‘Word Association Norms, Mutual Information, and Lexicography’, in Proceedings
of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics;
reprinted in Computational Linguistics,
Spring 1990 1989b (with
K. Church, W. Gale, and D. Hindle) ‘Parsing, Word Associations and Typical
Predicate-Argument Relations’, in M. Tomita (ed.) Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. Carnegie Mellon
University 1986 ‘Typicality
and Meaning Potentials’ in M. Snell-Hornby (ed.) ZüriLEX '86 Proceedings.
Francke Verlag 1987 ‘Definitions
and Explanations’ in J. M. Sinclair (ed.), Looking Up. Collins 1981 ‘The
English of Southern Africa’ in English in Africa, vol. 8, no. 1 1979b ‘To
what Extent does a Dictionary Definition Define?’ in R. R. K. Hartmann (ed.), Dictionaries
and their Users, Exeter Papers in Lexicography II. English-Language Dictionaries
NOTE: only original works for whose planning and execution I
was responsible are listed here. In addition to these works, I had editorial
and managerial responsibility for the general policy and content of a very
large number of other dictionaries, derivatives, and revised editions of
dictionaries at Collins and subsequently Oxford University Press. 2000 New
Oxford Thesaurus of English 1998 New
Oxford Dictionary of English 1995 Oxford
English Reference Dictionary 1989a Collins
School Dictionary 1989b Collins
Pocket English Dictionary 1988 Collins
Cobuild Essential English Dictionary 1987 Collins
Cobuild English Language Dictionary 1982 Collins
Concise English Dictionary 1979 Collins
English Dictionary 1971 Encyclopedic
World Dictionary, Paul Hamlyn III. Names Studies
Forthcoming 'Lexicography of Personal Names' in A. P. Cowie (ed.): History of English Lexicography. Oxford University Press. 2006 Oxford Dictionary of First Names, fourth edition. Oxford University Press 2005 ‘Americanization
of European Family Names in the 17th and 18th Centuries’ in Onoma, the
International Journal of Onomastic Sciences 38. 2003 Dictionary
of American Family Names. 3 vols. Oxford University Press, New York 2001 (with
F. Hodges) A Concise Dictionary of First Names, third edition. Oxford University
Press 2000 (with
D. Kenneth Tucker) ‘A Diagnostic Database of American Personal Names’, in Names
48.1 1997 (with
F. Hodges) A Concise Dictionary of First Names, second edition.
Oxford University Press 1992a (with
F. Hodges) A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University
Press 1992b ‘The
Present-Day Distribution of Surnames in the British Isles' in Nomina
16 1990 (with
F. Hodges) Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 1988c (with
F. Hodges) Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press IV. English-Teaching Course Book
1986a (with
Jim Corbett) Business Listening Tasks. Cambridge University Press 1986b (with
Jim Corbett) Business Listening Tasks: Guide for Teachers and Self-Study.
Cambridge University
Press
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