EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR LEXICOGRAPHY
Editor: Paul Bogaards. 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 email address above. The deadlines for spring (March), summer (June), autumn (September) and winter (December), issues are respectively 1 December, 1 March, 1 July, and 1 October annually.
The URL of the EURALEX web site is www.euralex.org
Lexicom-Europe 2006 - Sixth Annual Lexicom International Workshop
Our sixth Lexicom was held from 5-9 June 2006 in Opatija, Croatia, hosted by the University of Rijeka and ably managed by members of the Faculty of Maritime Studies. Once again, the focus was on dictionary-making: ‘learning how’ rather than ‘learning about’. The 40 or so participants – lexicographers, editors, managers, translators, linguists, computational linguists and computer scientists – represented a dozen countries and came from many different backgrounds: publishing houses, universities, software houses, research establishments, government departments and international institutions. A participant’s-eye-view is given at www.lexmasterclass.com, together with the full programme. The group photo is on www.pfri.hr/lexicom/.
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, and an introduction to frame semantics as a practical approach to corpus analysis. Dictionary writing software was demo’d by Gilles-Maurice de Schrijver from TshwaneLex. Participants received complete documentation of all the seminars in a bound copy of the Course Notes.
The course was led by Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell, of the Lexicography MasterClass Ltd. The Hotel Opatija, where the workshop was held, proved an excellent venue, offering fine vistas over the Adriatic coast, good local eating places and splendid coastal walks for the energetically inclined.
Lexicom-Asia 2006 will take place from December 11th-15th in Kowloon, Hong Kong, where our hosts will be the Language Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (http://lc.ust.hk/~centre/lexi2006/).
Sue Atkins
Success story for Urdang scholar
We are happy to report that Chinedu Uchechukwu, winner of the Euralex Urdang Award in 2002, has been nominated by his university, the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, Germany, to receive the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, or DAAD) prize for the most outstanding international student of the year, in academic achievement and social and cultural commitment. Earlier this year Chinedu gained his PhD ‘magna cum laude’ for his lexicographic work on German and Igbo. The DAAD award citation describes Chinedu as “a true ambassador for Nigeria and for African students in general at the Otto-Friedrich-University”. He will receive the €1000 prize at the University’s dies academicus on November 6, 2006, in the University Aula. Chinedu used his Urdang Award to establish a corpus model for the Igbo language, and his report on this project is at http://www.euralex.org/official/LUA_Uchechukwu.pdf
Forthcoming events
2007
June
13 – 16, Dictionary Society of North America, DSNA XVI, University of Chicago. Abstracts are due January 2, 2007 at editor@verbatimmag.com. Information: Erin McKean, 4907 N. Washtenaw Ave, Chicago IL 60625.
September
12-14, Ivanova State University, Russia: VII International school on lexicography. Information: Prof.. Dr. Olga Karpova, Ivanovo State University, English Philology Department, Ermak St., 39, Ivanovo, 153025, Russia, or Conference Coordinator Katerina A. Shaposhnikova. Tel.: +7 (0932) 37 54 02, fax: +7 (0932) 37 54 02, e-mail: lexico2005@ivanovo.ac.ru or omk@ivanovo.ac.ru.
2008
July
15-19, Barcelona, Spain: 13th International EURALEX Conference. The conference will be hosted by Pompeu Fabra University. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: October 31, 2007. Please see the EURALEX website for details. Email: euralex2008@upf.edu.