Guest talks on lexicography and African Languages by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Minah Nabirye and Deo Kawalya (Wed, Dec 7, 11:30-18:30)

Department of Lexicography and Lexicology
  cordially invites everyone interested to any and all of the following talks
to take place on Wednesday, December 7
  venue: Collegium Novum, Niepodległości 4, Poznań
 

(1) 
11:30 - 13:00, 601A
Professor Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

(Ghent University, Belgium, and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

"Giving dictionary users what they want: Dynamic, real-time content creation with TLex (TshwaneLex)"

(the talk develops ideas introduced in the speaker's groundbreaking "Lexicographer's Dreams..." article, now demonstrating how the dreams can actually be implemented in a leading dictionary production suite; the talk applies to any language, but most examples will be from English)

(2) 
16:30 - 17:30, 101A
Minah Nabirye

(Ghent University, Belgium)

“Documenting an undocumented language”

(focuses on Lusoga: how and what to record, transcribe, how to process the data, and what to do with it...)
 

(3) 
17:30 - 18:30, 101A
Deo Kawalya

(Ghent University, Belgium)

“Towards an alphaconceptual dictionary”

(introduces a truly user-friendly dictionary for users without any reading culture; the language discussed is Luganda)
 
 

Robert Lew