29.5114, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/Portugal

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Subject: 29.5114, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/Portugal

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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 04:02:48
From: Tanara Zingano Kuhn [tanarazingano at uc.pt]
Subject: eLex 2019: Smart Lexicography

 
Full Title: eLex 2019: Smart Lexicography 

Date: 01-Oct-2019 - 03-Oct-2019
Location: Sintra, Portugal 
Contact Person: Tanara Zingano Kuhn
Meeting Email: oc at elex.link
Web Site: https://elex.link/elex2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Lexicography; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The sixth biennial conference on electronic lexicography, eLex 2019, will take
place in Sintra, Portugal, 1-3 October 2019.

The conference aims to investigate different aspects of what we named ''smart
lexicography''. In the last decade, the use of mobile devices such as
smartphones has increased considerably. Yet many dictionaries are still not
adapted suitably for these digital formats, which is worrying considering that
the majority of users uses mobile devices on a daily basis (as shown also by
the recent European survey on dictionary use). How can this situation be
improved? What are (some of) the main difficulties faced by dictionary makers?

Another aspect is smart use and reuse of dictionary content. Namely,
dictionaries often remain isolated entities, whereas the user needs and habits
indicate that it would be much more useful to have them linked to other
dictionaries and language resources, or even integrated in various tools. Such
linking and integration pose numerous challenges, especially if conducted
between resources of different dictionary makers (in different countries). The
same is true for the reuse of dictionary content in the compilation of new
resources. This makes it important to ensure compatibility of formats in which
dictionaries are provided, and to develop API services and conversion tools
that facilitate such compatibility, also bringing lexicography closer to the
Semantic Web. The conference aims to look at examples of good practice, as
well as address some of the main challenges that need to be met in such
undertakings.


Call for Papers:

The conference aims to explore innovative developments in the field of
electronic lexicography. The focus of this conference is on smart
lexicography. Thus, papers on the following topics are particularly welcome:

- Dictionary content in different digital media (e.g. mobile devices, tablets)
- Exploitation of language resources (e.g. via API): monolingual and
multilingual corpora, learner corpora, lexical databases (e.g. Wordnet,
Framenet, DANTE, Wikipedia)
- Linked lexical data, its integration and presentation
- Automatic creation of dictionary content
- Visualisation of lexical data
- New reference tools with a dictionary element (e.g. learning tools, writing
assistants)
- Dictionary writing systems and other software available to the lexicographer
- Integration of NLP tools (e.g. grammatical annotation, speech synthesis)
- Usage practices of the users of electronic dictionaries
- Automated customisation of dictionaries to users’ needs and characteristics
(e.g. proficiency level, mother tongue)
- Integration of electronic dictionaries into language learning and teaching
(e.g. CALL, translator training)
- Crowdsourcing and its use in lexicography

Abstracts:

The abstracts, to be submitted by 15 February, should be between 300-500 words
in length (excluding references).
There will be three categories of presentation at the conference:

- Paper (25 minutes, including discussion)
- Software presentation (25 minutes, including discussion)
- Posters and demos

Software presentations should not include only a demo of the software but also
other aspects, such as the analysis of user needs, rationale for certain
features, specifics of projects/datasets etc. The posters and demos are
intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which
researchers would like to get feedback.
In order to give a presentation at the conference, you must have your abstract
accepted. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a full
paper for the proceedings (indexed by SCOPUS).

The abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elex2019




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