The 22nd annual Lexicom Workshop was held this year in the UK, in Jesus College, Cambridge. The 500-year-old college is always a popular venue (as is the city of Cambridge), and this was the third time Lexicom has been held there. A diverse group of 15 participants (from as close as Oxford and as far away as the Maldives) spent an interesting week getting up to date with developments in corpus-based lexicography. For the first time at Lexicom (but certainly not the last) the programme included sessions on Large Language Models like ChatGPT, and their potential impact not only on the process of dictionary compilation but also as possible alternatives to dictionaries. Our guest lecturer Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (from the University of Surrey) talked about the value of lexicography and corpora as an aid to academic writing, and introduced participants to the ColloCaid project. On our afternoon off, we enjoyed a punting trip on the River Cam, passing many of the famous Cambridge colleges as we drifted down the river.
