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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:30:49
From: Ed Finegan [dsnaadmin at gmail.com]
Subject: DSNA's 23rd Biennial Conference: Fitness of Our Dictionaries and Lexicography to 21st-Century Realities

 
DSNA's 23rd Biennial Conference: Fitness of Our Dictionaries and Lexicography to 21st-Century Realities 
Short Title: DSNA-23 

Date: 04-Jun-2021 - 04-Jun-2021 
Location: Virtual, USA 
Contact: Ed Finegan 
Contact Email: dsnaadmin at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://dictionarysociety.com/conference/ 

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

Meeting Description: 

The Dictionary Society of North America is pleased to announce that its 23rd
biennial conference will be held remotely on June 4, 2021, from 10:00 am –
3:30 pm North American Eastern Time (GMT 15:00 – 20:30).

Abstracts are invited for nine papers to be presented, three each on three
panels, at the online-only DSNA-23 meeting. Each abstract should be centrally
relevant to one of the panel topics described below and should specify the
panel it is being submitted to. Presentations are limited to 15 minutes and
must be pre-recorded. Each panel will have a 15-minute moderated live Q&A. 

The organizers encourage submission of public-facing papers, with appeal to a
wider audience than normally attends a DSNA conference. Short papers cannot
attempt a state-of-the-art picture but should aim to describe or critique an
aspect of the topic from a 21st-century perspective. All abstract submitters
must be willing to pre-record their presentation and to be virtually present
during the entire panel in order to participate in the Q&A. Authors of papers
accepted for panel presentation will receive guidelines for preparing the
recordings. 

Note: Each set of panel presentations is planned to form the core of a forum
to be published in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North
America. In addition, papers based on select other submitted abstracts will be
accepted for possible inclusion in the forum (all papers to be refereed in
accordance with the journal’s practices). 

Provision will be made for break-out rooms and a social hour following the
formal conference. 

A formal call for papers will be made later in January; submission deadline:
February 26, 2021.
 

Program Information: 

Introduction: Steve Kleinedler (Past President, DSNA) 

Keynote:  Dictionaries as Authorities: Can They Be and Should They?
Kory Stamper and Bryan Garner
Moderator: Lane Greene (The Economist)

Panels: 
1. How global and national events affect modern lexicography
Moderator: Ben Zimmer (Wall Street Journal)
2. Dictionaries in the public eye
Moderator: Anne Curzan (University of Michigan)
3. The future of dictionaries and lexicography
Moderator: Sarah Ogilvie (Oxford University)

A Life in Lexicography: Elizabeth Knowles (President, DSNA) 

PANEL DESCRIPTIONS: 
1. How global and national events affect modern lexicography 
Online dictionaries are able to adapt speedily to rapid changes in vocabulary
and usage. As an example, Covid-19 and the pandemic have spawned a range of
new words and new applications for existing words, such as contact tracing,
community spread, flatten the curve, PPE, social distancing, and Covid-19
itself. Who monitors these and similar developments for dictionaries? Who
writes or revises the definitions? How do lexicographers keep up with global
and national changes in vocabulary and word meanings? How does the
proliferation of new vocabulary affect established lexicographical approaches?
We welcome abstracts that explore any aspect of dictionaries and lexicography
addressing lightning-speed developments in the lexicon.

2. Dictionaries in the public eye 
Dictionaries continue to carry significant authority in the professional and
personal lives of people in all walks of life and all stations. Courts in the
US and Britain increasingly cite dictionaries as evidence for the meaning of
even everyday words. Lexicographers and dictionary publishers now use social
media in savvy ways to engage more users. Reporters are fascinated with new
words and how they get into dictionaries, and they pay a good deal of
attention to contests about words (e.g., WOTY, spelling bees, political
gaffes). Teachers and students increasingly turn to online resources for
authoritative word explanations and definitions – sometimes online
dictionaries from established publishers and sometimes not. How do common
understandings – or misunderstandings – of dictionaries and their authority
manifest in how users approach these issues? What trends can we find in the
attention to dictionaries in the public forum? How should dictionaries adapt
to each of these audiences and common uses of dictionaries – or should they?
We welcome abstracts that explore any aspect of dictionaries and lexicography
in public forums or these questions in particular. 

3.  The future of dictionaries and lexicography
While a dictionary’s word list (entry list) and definitions have traditionally
been the work of humans – lexicographers – they are now increasingly generated
semi-automatically from large text datasets (corpora). New working models are
emerging in which digital humanities, corpus linguistics, linked data, NLP,
and machine learning are applied to the selection of illustrative quotations,
disambiguation of word senses, choice of labels, and writing of definitions
themselves. How efficient and accurate are these computational methods when
compared to those of humans? Will human lexicographers always be needed? Will
some computer programs be able to generate definitions on the fly and provide
the information users expect? And will the notion of “the dictionary” need
redefining as a result? We welcome abstracts that explore any aspect of the
future of dictionaries and lexicography in general, or these questions in
particular.





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