Conference

Programme

On 6 February 2009, the conference Dictionaries, More Than Words took place at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. The full programme of the conference which was part of the Communication in Slovene project was recorded and is available at www.videolectures.net, and the materials presented by speakers are available at the links below.

Dictionaries, More Than Words

Participants were greeted by:

Anton Grizold, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences

Majda Širca, Minister of Culture

Igor Lukšič, Minister of Education and Sport

Conference programme

Patrick Hanks	Compiling a Monolingual Dictionary for Native Speakers
František Čermák	Lexicographer's notes related to a corpus-based dictionary
Nataša Logar	The Corpus: It's not just words! (in Slovene)
Špela Arhar	Language Technologies and New Methods (in Slovene)
Polona Gantar	The Lexical Database: Everything you always wanted to know about the language (in Slovene)
Simon Krek	From "SSKJ" to the Web Portal of Standard Slovene Language (in Slovene)
Marko Stabej	Dictionaries and Speakers: Going at it like cats and dogs? (in Slovene)

The public discussion portion began with a short presentation by Jure Zupan, (National Institute of Chemistry) who presented his concept of a hierarchically organized dictionary of the meanings of Slovene words (in Slovene).
His presentation was followed by the public discussion.

Photos from the conference

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