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I've lived in Chicago (went to UChicago undergrad), but I haven't been to Portland or Vancouver. I went to LSA in 2009 in San Francisco and it was really great, but FWIW don't feel like I'm equipped to compare LSA and ACL. I was pretty new to Linguistics in 2009 so LSA was a total smorgasbord of awesome excitingness—Optimality Theory, multiple sessions on sign language stuff, a whole bunch of cool work that I'll probably never work on but really neat to know it's going on and look for connections to my own work. Chicago is great, pretty affordable, and has full coverage in public transit (better to fly into Midway airport than to O'Hare, though). But it's spread out enough that If you go to Summer Institute you should definitely stay in Hyde Park, and not even consider looking anywhere else to commute to U of C campus. It will also be very hot in July, and though I'm not sure how the heat index compares with Gainesville in July, the housing stock in Hyde Park is old enough that you cannot count on everywhere being air conditioned: on-campus student housing will have A/C, off-campus might not. DSNA always has both a high-end and a budget accommodation option, and actually the $56/night for a private bedroom in a four-person suite (http://events.arts.ubc.ca/dsna-20&shel-9/travel_and_lodging/index.html ) sounds like a pretty good deal for the budget end. The budget accommodation has always sold out before I've gotten around to booking it for every conference I've attended, but maybe this year I'll get to it sooner.

Oh, JD, I'll be presenting at DSNA in Vancouver too! Have you been to the DSNA conference before? I've attended and presented several times, so if you have any DSNA-specific questions I'm happy to answer them. It's a very nice, small crowd; joining together with the SHEL (Society for the History of the English Language) crowd should make it a bigger crowd but it's likely we'll mingle like the nice people we are. I'm undecided about whether to go to the LSA conference in Portland next month—actually I guess it hinges on an admissions decision that I should be getting any day now. I will also likely go to NAACL in Denver, and hope to attend the LSA Summer Institute in Chicago.

Hmm, this is an interesting question. I stripped mine of specifics just to make it more general—and found that, stripped of specifics, it is painfully generic:

Last summer it was $1720 for up to five courses: http://lsa2013.lsa.umich.edu/about/registration-information/ and you're on your own for housing. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to the summer institute, but if I do I probably wouldn't take the Corpus Lex course because that is my main background. The whole LSI idea depends a bit on what kind of feedback I get in my MA-or-PhD application process (I'm applying for Fall 2015). I have a professional background in computational lexicography and I'm heading toward research in computational lexical semantics,.

This is a pretty old thread, but I'm not aware of any standing courses in Lexicography at US universities. This summer the LSA Summer Institute will have a 4-week course in "Computational Corpus Lexicography" http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/lsa2015/list-of-courses/ which may serve your purposes well (if it's not too late to take it a year after you asked!)