31.3529, Calls: Comp Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/Czech Republic or Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3529. Mon Nov 16 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3529, Calls: Comp Ling, Lexicography, Text/Corpus Ling/Czech Republic or Online

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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:54:23
From: Miloš Jakubíček [milos.jakubicek at sketchengine.eu]
Subject: eLex 2021: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century

Full Title: eLex 2021: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century. 
Short Title: eLex 2021 

Date: 05-Jul-2021 - 07-Jul-2021
Location: Brno, Czech Republic 
Contact Person: Miloš Jakubíček
Meeting Email: oc at elex.link
Web Site: http://elex.link/elex2021 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2021 

Meeting Description:

ELEX 2021: POST-EDITING LEXICOGRAPHY
The topic of eLex 2021 is going to be “post-editing lexicography”. Digital
lexicography has progressed over the past 30 years up to the point where large
parts of entries in a new dictionary (such as headword lists, inflections,
translations or example sentences) may be drafted automatically from a
sufficiently large and sufficiently annotated text corpus. This technological
progress leads to new methodological approaches where most editorial work
consists of post-editing of automatically created content – similarly to
post-editing of machine translated texts. On one hand, these changes promise
speeding up the editorial work (as less work needs to be carried out in total)
and allow the editors to focus on the lexicographically most challenging
issues (as the easy bits are likely to be drafted correctly), on the other
hand the changes to the overall editorial workflow and dominant lexicographic
paradigms are substantial and not straightforward to implement.

Therefore at eLex 2021 we would especially welcome contributions that focus
on:
 - theoretical as well as practical challenges of the post-editing workflow
 - recommendations, best practices and use cases of post-editing lexicography
 - impact of the post-editing workflow to the editor’s skillset and education
 - tools and technologies for post-editing lexicography, their evaluation as
well as discussion of their current limits

Notwithstanding these highlighted topics, the forthcoming eLex conference is
the right place to present any ongoing work in digital lexicography.

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
 - Language of the conference: English

ABSTRACTS
The abstracts, to be submitted by 1 February 2021, 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/account/signin?l=mqOxRrVYSzkFtmlyBBV9YD). 

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
Given the ongoing Covid-19 situation, the format of the physical conference
will be fixed no later than 60 days before the conference. If the
epidemiological situation and travel restrictions do not allow for a physical
event, the conference will be held virtually in which case the format may
change to accommodate the specifics of online events. Proceedings will be
published in either case.

As a result, there will be no early-bird registration but a two-week
registration window after the conference format is announced (ca. May 1- May
15, 2021).

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