EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR LEXICOGRAPHY
EURALEX NEWSLETTER
Editors: Carla Marello and Rosamund Moon. Address for correspondence and contributions:
Carla MarelloE-mail: marello@cisi.unito.it and rosamund@moon.eu.org
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This quarterly Newsletter is intended to include not only official announcements but also news about EURALEX members, their publications, projects, and (it is hoped) their opinions, and news about other lexicographical organizations. Please try to support this by sending newsletter contributions to Carla Marello at the above address, or e-mailing the editors.
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| summer (June) | 15 March |
| autumn (September) | 15 June |
The URL of the EURALEX web site is http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex.
Full information about registration and accommodation is available on the EURALEX web site (http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex). Alternatively, you may write to:
Congress Organizers EURALEX 2000
Dr. Ulrich Heid
Universität Stuttgart
Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS-CL
Azenbergstrasse 12
D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany
Fax: +49 711 121 1366
e-mail: elx2000@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
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The European Society of Phraseology was founded in Bielefeld in January 1998. It has its seat in Zürich. The society's objectives are as follows:
The society's first conference (and general meeting) will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, in June 2000.
The Board members are Harald Burger (chairperson), Zürich; Wolfgang Eismann (vice-chairperson), Graz; Gertrud Gréciano, Strasbourg; Christine Palm Meister, Uppsala; Peter Durco, Bratislava; Jarmo Korhonen, Helsinki; Jan Wirrer, Bielefeld.
Members of the advisory council are Frantisek Cermák, Prague; Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij, Münster & Moscow; Csaba Földes, Veszprém; Peter Grzybek, Graz; Annelies Häcki Buhofer, Basel; Wolfgang Mieder, Burlington; Valerij Mokienko, Greifswald & St Petersburg; Annely Rothkegel, Hannover; Barbara Wotjak, Leipzig.
Membership is acquired through application to the board and payment of membership fees. In 1999, fees were 50 Swiss Francs or 25 Euros for members with a regular income; 20 Swiss Francs or 10 Euros for students and members without a regular income; and 100 Swiss Francs or 50 Euros for institutions.
A web site for the society is being developed: see http://www.ik.fh-hannover.de/person/rothkegel/EUROPHRAS/Startseite.html.
Further information can be obtained from:
Prof. Dr Harald Burger
Deutsches Seminar
Universität Zürich
Schönberggasse 9
CH-8001 Zürich
Switzerland
E-mail: Burger.Harald@access.unizh.ch.
The Second Asialex biennial international conference on lexicography will be held at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in July, 2001. The main theme of the conferfence will be `Asian Bilingualism and the Dictionary'. Interested persons are welcome to make suggestions and inquiries. A call for papers will be announced in March 2000.
Yonsei hankuko sajon (Yonsei Dictionary of Contemporary Korean), edited by the lexicographical team of the Center for Language and Informatics Developement, Yonsei University, was published in October, 1998. It was the first ever corpus-based lexicographical work in Korea. It is a 2,144 page single volume dictionary for desk-top use.
Inquiries on Asialex and Yonsei hankuko sajon should
be made to:
Professor Sangsup Lee, Asialex
Center for Language and Informatics Development
Yosei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea
For details, please see the Dictionary's web site at http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww.
Andrew Hawke (ach@aber.ac.uk)
1999 Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora, edited Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Ward Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne Tzoukermann, and David Yarowsky. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. 324 pages. ISBN 0-7923-6055-9. NLG 240.00 / USD 128.00 / GBP 79.00.
1999 The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?), edited Thomas Herbst and Kerstin Popp. Papers from the Symposium held in Erlangen, April 1997. These mainly focused on detailed comparison of the four English learners' dictionaries published in Britain in 1995 (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ed. 5, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ed. 3, Collins Cobuild English Dictionary ed. 2, Cambridge International Dictionary of English), but also included topics in current lexical and lexicographical research. Niemeyer, Tübingen (Lexicographica Series Maior, Vol. 95) 320 pages. ISBN 3 484 30995 4, ISSN 0175 9264.
Nicola Mastidoro (eulogos@eulogos.it)
Louis-Jean Rousseau, Secrétaire général
Réseau international de néologie et de terminologie (Rint)
200, chemin Sainte-Foy, 4e étage
Québec (QC) G1R 2L2
Canada.
Courriel: lroussea@olf.gouv.qc.ca
Site Internet: http://www.rint.org
April
1-5, Oporto, France: First International Conference on Gestures:
Gesture, Meaning and Use. Info: Monica Rector. E-mail: rector@email.unc.edu or mbotelho@ufp.pt.
3-6, Paris, France: The Evolution of Language. Email: evolang@infres.enst.fr. Web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/e volang/.
7-9, Köln, Germany: 7th Symposium of the German Terminology Society. Info: John D. Graham (johdgraham@t-online.de).
7-9, Vaasa, Finland: VaLex II, Vaasaer Germanistisches Kolloquium zur kontrastiven Lexikologie. Info: Henrik Nikula, Universität Vaasa, Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Postfach 700, FIN-65101 Vaasa, Finland. Web site: http://www.uwasa.fi/hut/deutsch/.
10-14, Exeter, England: InterLex 14, the fourteenth one-week international residential course in Lexicography. Info: Reinhard Hartmann, Director, Dictionary Research Centre, School of English, University of Exeter EX4 4QH, Great Britain. Tel: +44 1392 264302. Fax: +44 1392 264361. E-mail: r.r.k.hartmann@exeter.ac.u k. Web site: http://www.ex.ac.uk/drc/.
26-29, Maastricht, The Netherlands: 3rd International Maastricht-Lodz Duo Colloquium, `Translation and Meaning', Maastricht session. Info: Drs Marcel Thelen, School of Translation and Interpreting, Hogeschool Maastricht, P.O. Box 964, 6200 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 43 3466 471. Fax: +31 43 3466 649. E-mail: m.m.g.j.thelen@ftv.hsmaastricht.nl. Web site: http://ftvmaastricht.congres.nedweb.com.
May
31-2 June, Athens, Greece: LREC2000, The 2nd International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation. Organized by the European
Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute for Language and
Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and the National Technical
University of Athens, Greece, with the assistance of ACL, ALLC,
COCOSDA, ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX,
FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc. The Scientific Programme will
include invited talks, presentations of accepted papers, poster
sessions, refereed demonstrations and panels. Pre-conference
workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of May and
post-conference workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June.
Info: LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina
Scutari, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), 6
Artemidos & Epidavrou Str., 15125 Marousi, Athens, Greece. Tel: +301
6800959. Fax: +301 6854270. E-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr. Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.ht
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June
29-1 July, Barcelona, Spain: First International Conference on
Language Variation in Europe. Info: ICL a VE 1 (Barcelona 2000), Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Unitat de Recerca de Varició Lingüística, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, La Rambla 30-32, E-08002 Barcelona, Spain. Tel: +34 935 422 322. Fax +34 935 422 321. Web site: http://www.iula.upf.es/iclaveuk.htm.
July
6-12, Paris: AFLA 2000, 3rd International Congress on Applied
Linguistics of the French Association for Applied Linguistics (AFLA).
The Congress will take place in Paris on the Jussieu campus, and will
consist of two parts: a scientific conference from 6-8 July, and a
summer school from 10-12 July. The main themes are the automatic
processing of language (seen not from the strictly technical aspect
but as the drive behind new methodologies and tendencies of research)
and language dysfunctions and learning difficulties of language and
languages. Info: AFLA, Tour Centrale, 9eme etage / Case 7003, 2 place
Jussieu, 75251 Paris CEDEX 05, France. E-mail: afla2000@linguist.jussieu.fr.
9-14, Budapest, Hungary: 7th International Pragmatics Conference. Info: IPrA Secretariat, P.O. Box 33 (Antwerp 11), B-2018 Antwerp, Belgium. Web site: http://www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/IPrA-7.htm.
August
31 July-4 August, Luxembourg: COLING 2000, 18th International Congress
on Computational Linguistics. Pre-congress tutorial: 29-30 July,
Saarbrücken, Germany. Post-congress workshop: 5-6 August, Nancy, France.
Info:
Web site: http://www.coling.org/call.html.
6-18, Birmingham, England: ESSLLI 2000, 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. Web site: http://www.folli.uva.nl/Esslli/2000/esslli-2000.html.
8-12, Stuttgart, Germany: 9th EURALEX Congress. See above for further information. Web site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/ euralex.
31-2 September, Dundee, Scotland: EUROCALL 2000. E-mail: eurocall@hull.ac.uk. Web site: http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/eurocall2000/.
September
7-9, Cambridge, England: BAAL (British Association of Applied
Linguistics) Annual Meeting, `Language across Boundaries'. Info: BAAL 2000, c/o Dovetail Management Consultancy, 4 Tintagel Crescent, London SE22 8HT, England. E-mail: Andy.Cawdell@BAAL.org.uk. Web site:
http://www.baal.org.uk/baalr.htm.
7-10, Cracow, Poland: EUROSLA 2000, 10th annual conference of the European Second Language Association. E-mail: eurosla@ares.fils.us.edu.pl. Web site: http://www.us.edu.pl/uniwersytet/konferencje/2000/filang/eurosla/EUROSLA2000.html.
11-13, Cambridge, England: 2nd International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics. Info: Ms Claire Thackeray, Newnham College, Cambridge CB3 9DF, England. E-mail: dburs3@newn.cam.ac.uk. Web site: http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/SIC-CSP2000/.
21-24, Lodz, Poland: 3rd International Maastricht-Lodz Duo Colloquium, `Translation and Meaning', Lodz session. Info: Prof. Dr habil. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Department of English Language, University of Lodz, Al. Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lodz, Poland. Tel: +48 42 36 63 37. Fax: +48 42 36 63 37, +48 42 36 63 72. E-mail: duoduo@krysia.uni.lodz.pl. Web site: http://ftvmaastricht.congres.ned web.com.
25-28, Lugo, Spain: International Linguistics Conference, Lexis and Grammar. Info: Montserrat Souto, I Congreso Internacional de Lingüística `Léxico y Gramática' Fac. de Humanidades, Campus Universitario, E-27002 Lugo, Spain. Tel: +34 982 22 39 96, ext 24017. Fax: +34 982 22 49 04. E-mail: femsouto@usc.es. Web site: http://www.lugo.usc.es/linglugo2000.
October
27-28, Avignon, France: Perspectives cognitives en linguistique
appliquée et didactique des langues. E-mail: stephanie.clerc@univ-avignon.fr. Web site: http://u2.u-strasbg.fr/dilanet/cofdela.htm.
November
13-16, Lisbon, Portugal: VII IberoAmerican Symposium of Terminology.
Organizing association: RITerm - Red Iberoamericana de
Terminología (IberoAmerican Terminology Network). Info: Carla
Sacadura Cabral, ILTEC, Rua Conde de Redondo, 74-6, 1150-109 Lisboa,
Portugal. E-mail: csc@iltec.pt.
2001
January
23-26, Santiago de Cuba: Seventh International Symposium on Social
Communication. The symposium will focus on social communication
processes from the points of view of applied linguistics,
computational linguistics, medicine, speech recognition and
processing, mass media, and ethnology and folklore. There will be two
pre-symposium seminars on 22 January. Info: Dr. Eloina Miyares
Bermudez, Secretaria Ejecutiva Comité Organizador, VII Simposio
Internacional de Comunicacion Social, Centro de Lingüística
Aplicada, Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre, Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba
90400. Tel: +53 226 42760 or +53 226 41081. Fax: +53 226
41579. E-mail: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu. Web
site: http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html.