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Computational Linguistics and Classical Lexicography
Manual lexicography has produced extraordinary results for Greek and Latin, but it cannot in the immediate future provide for all texts the same level of coverage available for the most heavily studied...
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EMLex - Mestrado Europeu em Lexicografia | European Master in Lexicography
EMLex's insight:EMLex, the European Master in Lexicography, will be also taught by the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal).See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
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First RELEX International Symposium on Romance Lexicography: an actual overview.
Rede de Lexicografía - UDC - USC - UVigoEMLex's insight:RELEX, the galician lexicographical network, will organise an international symposium on romance lexicography. This symposium will be held from...
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Portal das palabras. A new lexicographic website
EMLex's insight:The Real Academia Galega and the Fundación Barrié de la Maza lauched a new lexicographic website, linked to a mobile app and adressed to users. An interesting didactical section is also...
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The Role of a Dictionary
Good writing may exceed the boundaries suggested, if not intended, by dictionary definitions.EMLex's insight:When it happens I feel as if I have stepped into a Far Side cartoon. I am a magazine...
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Defining a new era, without dictionaries - Syracuse.com (blog)
Defining a new era, without dictionaries Syracuse.com (blog) The dictionary that sat on this desk for the past 24 years looks its age. The spine is missing. The front cover is held together by packing...
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From Materiality No. 1: Birth of a dictionary—An interview with ...
The oldest known dictionaries are cuneiform tablets from the Akkadian Empire, dating roughly to 2300 BC. Since those first marks pressed into clay, dictionaries and other reference books have...
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7th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology...
International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology ICHLL 2014EMLex's insight:CHLL is a biennial tradition and provides scholars from different institutions an opportunity to gather and...
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History of English Lexicography
Dictionaries of English, the earliest dictionaries of English, the beginnings of modern lexicography, historical lexicography, and American lexicography.See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
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The XVI EURALEX International Congress will be held 15-19 July 2014 in...
EMLex's insight:The motto of this edition of the EURALEX International Congress is: The user in focus.The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers,...
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The Hungarian EMLex website has been launched
A KRE-BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar (bölcsészkar) a bölcsész és tanárképzés mellett, többek között anglisztika, germanisztika és színháztudomány képzést is indít.EMLex's insight:As a member of EMLex...
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Why terminology extraction?
There is no doubt that terminology plays a very important role in many different fields such as translation, standardisation, technical documentation and localisation. Subject fields such as...
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Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: new applications for new users...
The second conference on electronic lexicography (eLex 2011) was organised by Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies, and took place between 10-12 November 2011 in Bled, Slovenia.See it on...
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Kongress der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) an der Universität...
Sprachwissenschaftler fürchten einen Kulturverlust durch die Gratis-Mentalität im Internet. Während die Menschen sich ihr Wissen früher häufig über sorgfältig bearbeitete Wörterbücher angeeignet...
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Es war einmal das Wörterbuch der Grimms
Das "Deutsche Wörterbuch" gilt als Denkmal der Germanistik. Begonnen wurde es von den Brüdern Grimm 1838. Nach ihrem Tode wurde die Arbeit von mehreren Forschergenerationen fortgesetzt, bis es 1961...
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War of the Dictionaries
War of the Dictionaries By Barbara Shaffer, unofficial historian of Springfield, Massachusetts The Georgian brick building of the Merriam-Webster company on Federal Street in Springfield,...
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Manuscript of 212-year-old dictionary of Indian languages found
The manuscript of a 212-year-old dictionary written by a British polymath employed by the East India Company in the late 18th century has been traced in the British Library, shedding new light on the...
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What I Do: Lexicographer a woman of her word
What I Do: Lexicographer a woman of her wordSan Francisco ChronicleSarah Ogilvie grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and earned a doctorate in linguistics at Oxford University in England.See it on...
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Töter als ein toter
Dr. Bopp hat gerade die Frage beantwortet, ob man das Adjektiv tot steigern kann oder nicht. Die Antwort ist: man kann. An dieser Antwort habe ich auch gar nichts auszusetzen; trotzdem ist tot ein...
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Interview with Erin McKean
“A good definition is like a good poem: beautiful and worthwhile in itself” - Interview with lexistar Erin McKean Before starting Wordnik, Erin McKean was editor in chief for American...
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