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

English Dictionaries in Global and Historical Context

The conference "English Dictionaries in Global and Historical Context" will meet 3-5 June 2010 at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. The conference will ask: What intellectual and social impact have English and English-bilingual dictionaries had in the world from the era of the Latin-Anglo-Saxon glossary to the era of the collaboratively constructed and web-based Inuit Living Dictionary? To what extent did the manuscript and printed dictionaries of English from the 11th century to the 20th reflect and inform contemporaneous linguistic norms, literary movements and social mores, and how now, in the early 21st century, will the role of English as a lingua franca and the competition of burgeoning and irreverent user-compiled dictionaries affect or reshape the traditional dictionary?

The historical and cultural breadth of this conference will allow us to reconsider the role of English dictionaries today, in a world that is increasingly English-speaking and e-literate and yet digitally and economically stratified. Over 40 scholars from around the world will present papers, including keynote speakers Mark Abley (author of The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English) and Srinivas Aravamudan (author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in A Cosmopolitan Language).

Registration for this meeting is now open: visit the conference's website at http://post.queensu.ca/~strathy/topics/dic_conf.html and for a list of speakers, check out http://post.queensu.ca/~strathy/content/dicprog.pdf. All those interested in dictionaries and the themes of this conference are welcome to register. Broad participation by academics, lexicographical professionals and community members will enrich our discussions.

One last celebration of Johnson's tercentenary

If you're attending the Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia this month, why not attend session 179 on Monday, 28 December 2009. Arranged by the Discussion Group on Lexicography, the broad topic "Samuel Johnson’s Tercentenary" features three papers on aesthetics, Scottish printers and physics! The session will be at 10:15–11:30 a.m., in Independence Salon III, Philadelphia Marriott. For more info on the conference, visit http://www.mla.org/. (Dr. Johnson never visited Philadelphia. In one of Lillian de la Torre's "Dr. Sam: Johnson Detector" stories, however, he does meet Benjamin Franklin in London; in fact, Johnson impersonates Franklin to help the latter escape from British government agents.)

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.

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.

Lexicography Topics at MLA convention

MLA annual convention, San Francisco, December 2008

Sunday, 28 December

322. Whose Dictionary Is It Anyway?1:45–3:00 p.m., Golden Gate 5, Hilton.
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Lexicography
Presiding: Jeffery A. Triggs, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
1. “Wanting a Name: Anonymity and Johnson’s Dictionary,” Gillian Paku, Harvard Univ.
2. “Authored by God: The Religious Demands on the New England Syllabary,” Michael S. Joseph, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
3. “Peirce’s Century,” Jeffery A. Triggs

Hard Copy Meeting Registration Form

2009_DSNA_Meeting_Registration_one-page_form.doc

2009 DSNA Conference Program

Dictionary Society of North America XVII Biennial Meeting
Indiana University
27-30 May 2009

DSNA_program.doc