Computational Linguistics Applications Workshop CFP

The Computational Linguistics Applications Workshop (CLA'09), to be held in Mrągowo, Poland, October 12-14, has posted a call for papers at http://www.imcsit.org/pg/199/161.

Dickson Baseball Dictionary reviewed

For the Washington Times's review of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, visit http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/22/books-baseball-and-evolution-writ-large/.

DARE nears completion

The Dictionary of American Regional English team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is nearing completion of the final volume, covering "S" to "Z." A new federal grant will help the volume get published next year, joining the first four volumes already in print. For the rest of the AP story, click onhttp://tinyurl.com/czkp9z.

2009 Meeting Program

The revised program for the 2009 DSNA Meeting in Bloomington has been posted.

You can access it here DSNA_program.doc and also by visiting http://dsna-indiana2009.blogspot.com/ .

"Same sex marriage" definition suddenly news

Merriam-Webster and other dictionaries defined "same sex marriage" several years ago but the news has just surfaced and is making the rounds of blogs and wire reports. Here's one version:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11942842?nclick_check=1.

2009 Election Reminder

Please remember to vote in this year's election for new DSNA officers. Ballots were mailed with membership materials in December; if you didn't receive one, please contact the DSNA office. Ballots must be received by 1 April 2009.

Spring 2009 DSNA Newsletter Now Online!

The Spring 2009 DSNA newsletter has been posted to the website. The online copy is in color, while the printed copy, mailed on Monday, 9 March, is in black and white.

If you wish to opt out of receiving a hard copy of the newsletter, please notify the Executive Secretary at dsnaadmin@gmail.com. If you have already opted out, there's no need to notify us again.

You can download the latest copy by clicking here: DSNA_33-1.pdf

Parlez vous Globish?

A Frenchman's quixotic attempt to build an empire based on the global dialect dubbed `English-lite'. To read the rest of the article from the Toronto Star, visit http://www.thestar.com/News/Insight/article/598048

Dictionaries in the Jury Room (or not)

Broward County Circuit Judge Matthew Destry declared a mistrial Tuesday ... after a juror said he took a dictionary into the deliberations, The Miami Herald reported. To read the rest of the story, visit http://tinyurl.com/d6pzem

Criteria for Children's Dictionaries

We've received a copy of an article from the March 2009 issue of Books for Keeps that follows up on the recent controversy over the omission of religious terms from the Oxford Junior Dictionary. Here it is in pdf format: Books%20for%20Keeps%20article.pdf

Euralex 2010

The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, software developers, and others interested in dictionaries of all types. The next Euralex Congress will be held in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands from 6 - 10 July 2010. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a special session for students and work-in-progress, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests. The 2010 conference will be hosted by the Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy) in Leeuwarden, the capital of the Dutch bilingual Province of Friesland. For more information, and to view the conferences call for papers, please visit the conference website at http://www.euralex2010.eu.

Information for Contributors

Dictionaries-InstToContrib.pdf

My DURO: How I Accidently Invented a Word

By Erin McKean

I'VE BEEN WORKING as a lexicographer - someone who edits dictionaries, for those of you disinclined to pick one up just now - for more than 15 years, and the question that I am asked most often, by far, is "How can I make up my own word and get it in the dictionary?"

To read more of Erin's article, originally published in the Boston Globe, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/bxhjzy