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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 project) 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 5th workshop on the subject "Research into dictionary use and user-adaptive access" will take place on 25. and 26. March 2013 at the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, Leiden (programme). We are pleased to announce that Sven Tarp (Aarhus) and Serge Verlinde (Leuven) will be guest speakers at Leiden.

• The Trierer Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften/Center for Digital Humanities has hosted the 4th workshop on the subject of "The lexicographical process in online dictionaries " on 22. and 23. November 2012. A publication with the outcomes of this event is planned.

• Andrea Abel und Annette Klosa have hosted a symposium entitled "Your contribution, please! – The user contribution in the dictionary process" at the GAL-Kongress "Wörter - Wissen - Wörterbücher" in Erlangen (18th to 21st September 2012). A publication with the outcomes of this event is under progress.

• The 3rd workshop on the subject of ‘Automatic extraction of lexicographical information’ took place in Bozen at the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano on 3rd and 4th May 2012. A publication with the outcomes of this event is under progress.

• The 2nd workshop on the subject of "Network strategies and access structures" took place in Berlin at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften on 5th and 6th December 2011. A publication with the outcomes of this event is under progress.

• The conference eLEX2011 – electronic lexicography in the 21st century took place in Bled (Slovenia) from 10th to 12th November 2011 (Proceedings). Some networkers attended this conference.

• The 1st workshop of the network took place on the 5th and 6th May 2011 in Mannheim at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache. The outcomes of this event are published in the documentation Datenmodellierung für Internetwörterbücher (ed. Annette Klosa and Carolin Müller-Spitzer).