EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR LEXICOGRAPHY
EURALEX NEWSLETTER
Editor: Paul Bogaards. Email for correspondence and contributions: P.Bogaards@let.leidenuniv.nl
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 Paul Bogaards at the above address, or by email. The deadlines for winter (December), spring (March), summer (June), and autumn (September) issues are respectively 1 August, 25 October, 1 February, and 1 May annually.
The URL of the EURALEX web site is http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/euralex.
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The next General Meeting of EURALEX will take place during our 11th Congress in Lorient, 6-10 July 2004. This meeting is open to all members of EURALEX. Members are invited to send items of general interest which they would like to discuss at the meeting to the Secretary (see address below), who will then include them in the agenda.
Members are also reminded that the General Meeting will elect the Officers and other members of the Executive Board. According to EURALEX Constitution 'proposals and nominations should be made and seconded by different individuals'. All individual members are eligible for nomination and election.
Rosamund Moon EURALEX General Meeting 2004
EURALEX Secretary-Treasurer
Department of English
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
Great Britain
Email: R.E.Moon@bham.ac.uk
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Registration is now open for the 11th EURALEX International Congress which is to be held in Lorient, France, from the 6th to 10th July 2004. Invited speakers include Pierre Corbin, Tony Cowie, Christine Jacquet-Pfau and John Sinclair.
Up-to-date information on registration, the programme, social events, and accommodation is to be found on the Congress Website: http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004.
Registration and accommodation have been separated. Registration forms and fees must be sent to the university at the address given. Secure online payment will be possible as from the beginning of March. Accommodation, other than Youth Hostels, can be booked directly through the Tourist Office of Lorient. Those who wish to stay longer or seek family accommodation will find that the Tourist Office also has a range of cottages available. Given the popularity of the Breton coast is summer it is preferable to book early, even if block bookings have been made by the Tourist Office. The Youth Hostel can be found at: http://www.fuaj.org/aj/lorient/ Preferential fares have been negotiated with Air France and French Railways, SNCF. Details can be found on the website and will be sent to all those who have registered or pre-registered. Lorient is easy of access by road, rail or plane. Flights usually require a change of plane in Paris or Lyon, the latter being the easiest option. More information can be found on the website. We look forward to welcoming you to Lorient. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: elx2004@univ-ubs.fr.
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Les inscriptions sont maintenant ouvertes pour le 11ème congrès international d'EURALEX qui aura lieu à Lorient, France du 6 au 10 juillet 2004. Les conférenciers invités incluront Pierre Corbin, Tony Cowie, Christine Jacquet-Pfau et John Sinclair. Des informations à jour sur les inscriptions, le programme, les activitès et l'hèbergement sont disponibles sur le site web : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004.
L'inscription et l'hébergement ont été séparés. Les formulaires d'inscription et les frais d'inscription doivent être adressés á l'université. Le paiement sécurisé en ligne sera possible à partir du début janvier. L'hébergement, autre que dans les auberges de jeunesse, peut être réservé auprès de l'office de tourisme de Lorient. Vu la popularité de la côte bretonne en été, il serait préférable de réserver rapidement, même si un certain nombres de chambres d'hôtel ont été réservées. L'auberge de jeunesse de Lorient peut être contactée au : http://www.fuaj.org/aj/lorient/.
Des tarifs privilégiés ont étés
négociés avec Air France et la SNCF, voir le site web
pour d'autres informations. Lorient est facile d'accès par la
route, par train, ou par avion. Pour l'avion il faut prévoir
une correspondance à Paris ou à Lyon. Pour davantage de
renseignements, veuillez consulter le site web
En attendant d'avoir le plaisir de vous rencontrer à Lorient,
n'hésitez pas à nous contacter à : elx2004@univ-ubs.fr.
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The EURALEX membership list is published in this issue of IJL. If you have moved recently or if there are any mistakes in your details, please notify both the EURALEX President, Thierry Fontenelle (who deals with membership matters) and EURALEX Society Liaison at Oxford University Press, so that records can be kept up to date. Contact details are:
Thierry Fontenelle
Natural Language Group
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
USA
Email: thierryf@microsoft.com
Ms Paula Thomson
EURALEX Society Liaison
Journals, Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, GB
Email: thomsonp@oup.co.uk
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Applications are invited for the Laurence Urdang Award (formerly the
Verbatim Award), which is funded by Laurence Urdang and administered
by EURALEX. Its purpose is to support unpaid lexicographical work of
any type, including study. The amount available is GBP £1500 sterling,
and an individual award may vary in size from GBP £250 to the full
amount. Applications must be received by 30 September 2004.
Results will be announced by early 2005, and awards will be presented
as soon as possible after the notification of results.
Applications should take the form of:
Four copies of the entire application should be sent to: 2004 Laurence
Urdang Award, EURALEX Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Ulrich Heid,
Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung,
Computerlinguistik, Azenbergstrasse 12, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany.
Email: heid@ims.uni-stuttgart.de. If no acknowledgement is received within a reasonable period, candidates are asked to contact the EURALEX Assistant Secretary-Treasurer at the above address.
The Selection Panel consists of the EURALEX President, and two past
presidents. The Award is open to EURALEX members only, but
applications will be accepted from people who have applied for EURALEX
membership and are awaiting confirmation of this. If you want to join
EURALEX please write to: Ms Paula Thomson, EURALEX Society Liaison,
OUP Journals, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford
OX2 6DP, UK. Fax number +44 1 865 267 485. Email: thomsonp@oup.co.uk.
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Participants
As in previous years, those attending the 2003 workshop came from many different backgrounds: publishing houses (lexicographers and editors), universities (linguists, computational linguists, computer scientists, and graduate students), software houses (software engineers and computational linguists) and research institutions. The bursary generously offered by the European Association for Computational Linguistics was awarded to Nina Tudjman Vukovic from Croatia.
The «team photo» can be seen at:
http://www.lexmasterclass.com/navigation.php?sec=lexicom&top=lexicom/2003/testimon.html#lex2003
Programme
Each seminar introduced and discussed a key topic, which was then
further explored in practical exercises at the computer. As well as
the basics of practical lexicography, the programme covered corpus
design and annotation, the extraction of information from corpus data
to build a dictionary entry, a brief look at various types of
dictionary databases, and an introduction to frame semantics as a
practical approach to corpus analysis. Participants received complete documentation of all the seminars in a bound copy of the Course Notes.
One session consisted of presentations by three participants of their own software already in use - a rewarding experience for us all. And in the closing session, the working groups presented dictionary entries they had compiled, initiating discussions of various theoretical and methodological issues.
Full details of the 2003 programme can be viewed at: http://www.lexmasterclass.com/navigation.php?sec=lexicom&top=lexicom/2004/programme.html
The course was led by Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell,
of the Lexicography MasterClass Ltd. It was hard work but it was
great fun, and we all learned a lot.
Brighton proved an ideal setting for spare time activities, from walks along the beach to an evening's clubbing for those with real stamina.
Lexicom 2004
Next year's workshop will be held in Brighton, England, from June
6th-11th. Participation is limited to 24 people. The programme and
general approach will be substantially the same, with a few
enhancements suggested by this year's group. Pre-registration is
already taking place on our website: http://www.lexmasterclass.com
Sue Atkins
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2004
June
21-24, Gargnano del Garda, Italy: Second International Conference on
Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Info: Prof. Giovanni
Iamartino, University of Milan, piazza S.Alessandro 1, 20123 Milano,
Italy. Tel: +39 02 503 13570. Fax: +39 02 503
13563. E-mail:
giovanni.iamartino@unimi.it
July
6-10,Lorient, France: Eleventh EURALEX Congress. Info: Congress Organizers
EURALEX 2004, Dr. Geoffrey Williams, Université de Bretagne
Sud, Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines, 4 rue Jean
Zay, B.P. 92116, 56321 Lorient cedex, France.
Email:
elx2004@univ-ubs.fr.
Web site: http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004
August
26-29, Basel, Switzerland: EUROPHRAS Conference.
Web site: http://www.europhras.unizh.ch/
September
14-18, A Coruña, Spain: First International Conference on
Hispanic Lexicography, Asociación Española de Estudios
Lexicográficos (AELex). E-mail lexicgr@udc.es Web site: http://www.udc.es/grupos/lexicografia
2005
May
18-21, Maastricht, The Netherlands: Maastricht Session of the 4th International
Maastricht-Lódz
Duo Colloquium on «Translation and Meaning».
Information:
Drs Marcel Thelen, Department of Translation and Interpreting,
Maastricht School of International Communication
Hogeschool Zuyd, P.O. Box 634, 6200 AP Maastricht
The Netherlands.
E-mail: m.m.g.j.thelen@hszuyd.nl>
Tel.: + 31 43 346 6471
Fax: + 31 43 346 6649.
Web site:
http://www.hszuyd.msti.translation-and-meaning.nedweb.com
September
23-25, Lódz, Poland: Lódz Session of the 4th
International Maastricht-Lódz Duo Colloquium on
«Translation and Meaning».
Information:
Prof. Dr habil. Barbara-Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Department of English Language, University of Lódz,
Al.
Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lódz, Poland.
E-mail:duoduo@krysia.uni.lodz.pl
Tel.: + 48 42 636 6337
Fax: + 48 42 636 6337/ ..6872.
Web site: http://www.hszuyd.msti.translation-and-meaning.nedweb.com
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