Keynote
speakers
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Electronic lexicography
and computer-assisted language learning:
Breaking down the barrier
SYLVIANE GRANGER
is
Professor
of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Louvain
(Belgium). She is the Director of the Centre for English Corpus
Linguistics where research activity is focused on the compilation and
exploitation of learner corpora and multilingual corpora. Her current
research interests focus on the integration of corpus data into a range
of user-oriented tools (electronic dictionaries, writing aids, spell
checkers and essay scoring tools). Her latest publications include International
Corpus of
Learner English (Granger et
al. 2009) and eLexicography in the
21st
century: New challenges, new applications
(Granger & Paquot eds. 2010).
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Language data for
digital
natives: old wine in a new bottle or...?
SIMON KREK
was
the
editor-in-chief of a new Oxford comprehensive English-Slovenian
dictionary published in two volumes
between 2005-2006, a project that introduced modern corpus-based
lexicography in Slovenia. Currently his affiliation is with the
Amebis
software company, specialized in natural language processing products
for
Slovene, and with Jožef Stefan Institute as a researcher in the field
of
language technologies. He is coordinating a five year project
whose
results
include a billion-word corpus of Slovene with a new tagger, parser and
pedagogically-oriented web concordancer, a lexicon and lexical
database, serving
as a basis for a web-based pedagogical dictionary, grammar and manual
of style.
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Wordnik:
Notes from an Online Dictionary Project
ERIN
McKEAN
likes to call herself a Dictionary Evangelist. She is the CEO of the new online dictionary Wordnik.
She was the editorial manager for the Thorndike-Barnhart Dictionaries
at Pearson Scott Foresman, and was recently the
editor-in-chief of the
New Oxford American
Dictionary, 2nd
edition. She has served on the board of
the
Dictionary Society of North America and on the editorial board for its
journal, Dictionaries. She
is the author of Weird and Wonderful
Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally
Weird and Wonderful Words,
and That’s
Amore (also about
words).
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The
DANTE database: what it is, how it was created, and what it can
contribute to the dictionaries and lexicons of the future
(Sue Atkins
and Michael Rundell)
MICHAEL RUNDELL
is one of the
directors of Lexicography MasterClass Ltd. He has been a
professional lexicographer
since 1980, working on a wide range of
dictionaries. His special area is monolingual English dictionaries
designed for learners. He has managed complex dictionary projects for a
number of leading British publishers including Longman and Macmillan,
and has been involved in the design and development of several major
language corpora. His last
project was Dante,
a new lexical database for English (completed in
September 2010), where he was (together with Sue Atkins) in
charge
of the database design, quality control and project management.
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Lexicographers'
'have-tos' in the electronic dictionary age
SERGE
VERLINDE is Professor of
French for Specific Purposes (Business French, Legal French) and
Director of the Leuven Language Institute at the University of Leuven,
Belgium. His main research interests are corpus linguistics,
pedagogical lexicography and CALL (Computer-assisted language
learning). He
is the co-author of the 'Dictionnaire
d'apprentissage du
français des affaires'
(DAFA - Paris: Didier). Recently,
he has
developed web applications for learning and teaching French vocabulary:
the 'Base
lexicale du
français' and 'Alfalex'
(http://ilt.kuleuven.be/blf).
He is currently working on online reading, translating and writing
assistants for Dutch and French.
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