Number 24 ● July 2016 Kernerman kdictionaries.com/kdn DICTIONARY News Towards Globalex The GLOBALEX Workshop on Lexicographic Resources and It is hoped that Globalex can facilitate knowledge sharing and Human Language Technology (http://ailab.ijs.si/globalex/) cooperation among its members and with others concerned took place as part of LREC 2016 at Portorož, Slovenia on May with language and language technology, promote the 24 and constituted the first live step in forming an overall global creation, research, exchange, dissemination, integration and constellation for lexicography. The initiative was launched usage of lexicographic resources and solutions, and enhance nine months earlier at a meeting held during the fourth eLex interoperability with the academia and industry worldwide. conference in the UK in August 2015, and has drawn the The roundtable featured short interventions by a support of lexicographic associations worldwide. representative of each organization, including one by video The full-day workshop was sponsored by the associations for and another by skype, presenting their association and vision lexicography of Africa, Asia, of Globalex, followed by a Australasia, Europe and North discussion with the audience. America (Afrilex, Asialex, The main issues concerned Australex, Euralex, DSNA), the aims and obstacles facing and the eLex conference series globaLex Globalex, its organization, on electronic lexicography in operation and meetings. the 21st century. It set out to explore standards for lexicographic The conference models ranged from dedicating a section resources and their incorporation in new language technology to Globalex at the continental conferences, and alternating and other solutions as part of knowledge systems and Globalex conferences with those of the different associations, collaborative intelligence. The workshop was attended by to holding Globalex conferences on their own every few about 60 participants, included 16 twenty-minute sessions years. and concluded with a roundtable about the future of Globalex. The organizers have agreed to contribute to the new Globalex The core idea of Globalex is to work on lexicography in website http://globalex.link/, which begins operation this global contexts and bring together different segments that month. More details appear on page 4, and a reprint of Towards operate on their own – on regional, topical or any other level Peoplex, from 1997, is available on page 18. – to cooperate. Ilan Kernerman 1 Towards Globalex | Ilan Kernerman 2 Lexicography associations: Afrilex, Asialex, Australex, DSNA, eLex, Euralex 4 GLOBALEX 2016 workshop summary and next steps 5 XVII Euralex International Congress & The Lexicographic Centre at Tbilisi State University | Tinatin Margalitadze 6 Asialex 2017 in Guangzhou | Hai Xu 6 Nineteenth-Century Lexicography Conference, 2018 7 Chinalex and lexicographic activity in China | Yihua Zhang 12 Treatment of entries with Chinese characteristics in English learner’s dictionaries: A case study of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8e | Lixin Xia and Langwei Zhai 16 Lexicography at the Society for Danish Language and Literature | Lars Trap-Jensen 18 Towards Peoplex (reprint) | Ilan Kernerman 19 Linked data in lexicography | Julia Bosque-Gil, Jorge Gracia and Asunción © 2016 All rights reserved. Gómez-Pérez 25 From dictionaries to cross-lingual lexical resources | Guadalupe Aguado-de-Cea, K DICTIONARIES LTD Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Ilan Kernerman and Noam Ordan 8 Nahum Hanavi Street Tel Aviv 6350310 Israel 32 Adam Kilgarriff Prize | Michael Rundell +972-3-5468102 [email protected] Editor | Ilan Kernerman http://kdictionaries.com ISSN 1565-4745 2 he African association for he Asian Association for he Australasian Association Lexicography (Afrilex) was Lexicography (Asialex) was for Lexicography (Australex) establishedT in 1995 after a feasibility establishedT at the initiative of Gregory wasT founded in 1990 as a companion study for a lexicographical institute for James and Amy Chi on 29 March association to Euralex. It is committed Southern Africa indicated a keen interest 1997, during the Dictionaries in Asia to the development of lexicography in in a unifying body among lexicographers conference at Hong Kong University of all languages of the Australasian region. and members of related professions. Science and Technology, with the aim Its interests include: Dr Reinhard R.K. Hartmann chaired of fostering scholarly and professional ● dictionaries of all kinds the inaugural meeting, and officially activities in the field of lexicography ● the theory of lexicography announced the birth of a new member and facilitating the exchange of ● the history of lexicography of the Lex family. information and ideas through meetings, ● the practice of dictionary-making Afrilex is managed by a Board elected publications, etc. Membership is open to ● dictionary use biennially by the members present at a any person or institution. ● endangered languages General Meeting of the association. The first executive board was elected ● Revivalistics Membership is open to individuals and at that inauguration meeting, and the ● terminology and terminography institutions who have an interest in President, HUANG Jianhua, convened ● corpus lexicography lexicography. The current membership the first conference in Guangzhou ● computational lexicography stands at 60 individuals and 8 corporate (1999). From then on, elections were not ● sign language members. The board consists of the held again, and usually the convener of ● lexicology president, vice-president, secretary, each conference was named president Membership consists mainly of people treasurer, four non-officers and the for two years, until the voting process from Australia, New Zealand and the conference convener. was renewed in Kyoto 2011. Pacific Islands, but also from many other The aims of Afrilex include the Asialex is governed by an executive countries, including Japan, South Africa, promotion and coordination of research, committee that is elected for two-year Spain, the UK and Zambia. Australex study and teaching of lexicography by terms, consisting of a president, includes career lexicographers, students means of publishing a journal, Lexikos, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, of lexicography, researchers into and other appropriate literature, and three more members as well as dictionaries, publishers, teachers and organizing regular conferences and four ex-officio members including the people who just like dictionaries. seminars that offer opportunities for immediate past president, journal editor, The association is governed by a exchange of ideas and for mutual and conveners of next two conferences. committee of 10 members, who are stimulus to researchers and practitioners Lexicography – Journal of Asialex elected every two years during the in the field of lexicography, and is published biannually since 2014 biennial conference. It consists of a facilitating the participation in tutorials by Springer, in print and online, and President, Vice-President, Secretary, and training courses. membership is connected to the journal Treasurer, five officers and the immediate Afrilex seeks to develop cooperation subscription. Until then, the activity past President. Membership is free. with other international associations of Asialex focused almost entirely Until 2009, meetings were held for lexicography as well as with local on holding biennial international regularly every one or two years, associations that are interested in the conferences. In addition to conference in addition to specific conferences study of language. proceedings, a newsletter appeared in (e.g. on Australian placenames of The 21st annual International the first years and collections of papers indigenous origins) and workshops Conference of Afrilex is held in July from two conferences were published as (e.g. on dictionary writing). Since then 2016 in Tzaneen, South Africa. well. Since 2015, conferences started to conferences have been held biennially, Lexikos (ISSN 2224-0039) is the be held once a year, with the tenth taking in either Australia or New Zealand. The official mouthpiece of Afrilex, the place in Manila 2016, and the next one next conference is planned for August editor being an ex-officio member of the due in Guangzhou in 2017. 2017 in the Cook Islands. It is hoped Board. All contributions are indexed by The challenges facing Asialex and that this location will extend the range the Thomson Reuters Web of Science achieving its goals are inherent in of Australex and involve speakers of Citation Index and are freely available Asia’s non-homogeneity on multiple more language groups, particularly online (http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/ levels. This vast geographical region endangered ones. The conferences are pub/). is composed of different areas often usually small, which has the benefit In its first twenty years of existence disconnected from each other, and its of promoting close collaboration and Afrilex has bestowed Honorary enormous linguistic diversity is often networking, with the opportunity Membership on the following members: under-resourced, under-researched or for delegates to attend most of the 2016 Prof. A.C. Nkabinde, Prof. Rufus under-represented. Traditionally Asialex presentations. One or more student July Gouws, Dr Johan du Plessis, and Dr has had stronger presence of the eastern bursaries are offered to help with Mariëtta Alberts. parts and much less of central, south conference attendance.