eLex 2021: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century Brno, Czechia, July 5-7, 2021 |
Conference website | http://elex.link/elex2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elex2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | February 1, 2021 |
Submission deadline | February 1, 2021 |
CALL FOR PAPERS
https://elex.link/elex2021/index.php/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 lexicographerIntegration 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 demosSoftware 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.
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 1st-May 15th, 2021).