MLA Call for Papers: Lexicography Literature

Here's a proposed MLA session of lexicographical interest. The deadline looms!

Topic: Papers addressing fiction or poetry that involves dictionaries or their makers as an operating conceit. Please send 500-word abstracts by 1 March 2010, to Chris P. Pearce (cppearce@bu.edu).

Lexicom 2010: A workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing

Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell of the Lexicography Master Class have issued a call for participants for this intensive five-day workshop, to be held at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7-11 June 2010. Seminars on theoretical issues will alternate with practical sessions at the computer. Topics to be covered include: corpus creation, corpus analysis, discovering word senses, recording contextual information, preparing word sketches, writing entries for dictionaries and lexicons, dictionary databases and writing systems, using web data, and the future of lexicography and lexical computing

Applications are invited from people with interests and experience in any of these areas. To register for Lexicom, go to http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2010. Early registration is advised, as previous workshops have been oversubscribed. Further details, including a draft program and reports of past events can be found at http://www.lexmasterclass.com/. For information on on Ljubljana (how to get there, where to stay etc) visit http://www.trojina.si/lexicom2010

"The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud" CFP

DSNA President Michael Hancher has issued the following call for papers, for a proposed session at the Modern Language Association meeting in January 2011:

Soon the MLA will publish the following call for paper proposals for a Special Session: "'The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud': Benedict Anderson's 'philological-lexicographic revolution' and after. Cultural standardization and fixity in the regime of print-capitalism; implications of fluid lexicographical practice and access online. Abstracts: March 15."

More fully stated (using more than the 35 words that the MLA allowed): In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983) Benedict Anderson closely identified the standardizing effects of lexicography with what he called "print-capitalism," itself linked to "the origins of national consciousness." Anderson's schematic references to "the lexicographical revolution in Europe" invite exemplification and critique. Also, in recent decades the lexicographical revolution has moved from print to cyberspace and the cloud. What do projects like dictionary.com, Wiktionary, le-dictionnaire.com, and DWDS, as well as Google's "define:" function, imply about communities constructed by "the dictionary" online today? Abstracts of proposed 15- or 20-minute presentations on either topic or both are welcome by March 15; please send them to mailto:mh%40umn.edu. In March I'll organize a panel for the MLA program committee to consider. The committee reports its decisions in May. Given sufficient interest I may edit a group of such papers for publication; therefore I invite proposals also from people who will not attend the MLA convention.

Additional information about the proposed volume is available at
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/mh/cfp-dictionary-print-and-cloud.

Computational Linguistics 2010 - CFP

The International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology will hold its annual Computational Linguistics Applications Workshop 18-20 October 2010, in Wisła, Poland. Proposals for papers are due by 31 May 2010. For more information, visit http://www.imcsit.org/pg/289/231.

Fifth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology

Here's an invitation from Charlotte Brewer, Hertford College, Oxford, and organizer of ICHLL5: A reminder that ICHLL 5 is being held at St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK on 16-18 June 2010. The conference will celebrate the tenth anniversary of OED Online, i.e. the major revision of the OED currently underway in Oxford, but proposals are welcomed for papers on any topic in lexicography and lexicology. Please send abstracts (no more than 300 words) to ichll@herald.ox.ac.uk by 30 November 2009. Registration is available online at the conference website, http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/ichll2010/, where more information may be found, including details of tours and receptions. We look forward to seeing as many existing ISHLL members as possible and we extend a warm welcome to newcomers.

CFP: International Conference for Historical Lexicography & Lexicology

Papers are now invited for the fifth International Conference for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, to be held at St Anne’s College Oxford 16-18 June 2010. Plenary speakers will be Michael Adams (‘World War II, Anglo-American Lexicography, and the Dictionary of American English’), Ulrike Hass (‘In search of the European dimension of lexicography’) and John Simpson (‘OED3 in the making’). The conference will mark the tenth anniversary of OED Online: i.e., the major revision of the OED currently underway in Oxford. Papers relating to dictionaries and dictionary-making are particularly welcome, but as with past conferences we hope to attract papers on a broad range of topics in lexicography and lexicology. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) should be sent to mailto:ichll%40herald.ox.ac.uk by 30 November 2009.

More information will be posted on the conference website, http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/ichll2010/ in due course.
For more information on ISHLL and its conferences see http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/jmc21/ishll.html.

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.