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The Academic Network of Internet Lexicography

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The development of the internet as a central medium for data exchange and data searches affects lexicography to a considerable degree. In the last few years, the number of monolingual and multilingual online dictionaries available for many different languages has increased steadily. Online dictionaries are written by individuals, publishers and academic institutions, and they are used in many different situations e.g. in translation. The technical construction and graphic realisation of the different dictionaries vary accordingly.

This has given rise to a whole host of new conceptional and technical requirements as well as new research approaches. In the Academic Network of Internet Lexicography, which is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the participants (academic lexicographers and researchers from different universities, research institutes and dictionary projects) will deal with a number of relevant topics through a series of workshops. The network is concerned not only with German lexicography, but also developments in other languages. The outcomes of the network will influence subsequent publications.

Current issues

• The 1st workshop of the network took place on the 5th and 6th May 2011 in Mannheim at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache. A publication of the outcomes of this event will be published in 2011.
• It has been announced that ‘e-Lexicography. The Internet, Digital Initiatives and Lexicography’ (edited by P.A. Fuertes-Olivera/ H. Bergenholtz, Continumm Verlag) will be published in October 2011.
• The conference ‘eLEX2011- Electronic Lexicography in the 21st Century’ will take place in Bled (Slovenia) from 10th to 12th November 2011.
• The deadline for the call for symposia for the GAL conference ‘Wörter – Wissen – Wörterbücher’ in Erlangen (18th to 21st September 2012) is 1st December 2011.
• The 2nd workshop on the subject of ‘Network strategies and access structures’ will take place in Berlin at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften on 5th and 6th December 2011.