TEC15: Elaine Higgleton - Dictionaries and corpus

All good dictionary publishers - such as Collins - have been using corpus information about how language is used to write and update dictionaries for nearly 30 years.
It is a process that many of us are familiar with and have seen presented many times before. In this combined talk and workshop we will be hearing about some of the latest corpus-driven updates made to the latest edition of Collins English Dictionary, trying our
hand at interpreting corpus data to spot recent changes in the language and using corpus data to draft our own dictionary entries.
Elaine Higgleton is the International Publisher for Collins Learning, a division of HarperCollins Publishers. She has had a long and varied career in publishing, from the ELT Dictionary Division at OUP to Chambers in Edinburgh and then moving to Collins in 2001.