2023 – Ljubljana

2023 – Ljubljana

The 20th Annual EFNIL Conference
 11th–13th October, 2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
General theme:
By the People, for the People:
Online Dictionaries, Language Portals, and the Role of Language Users

Hosted by ZRC SAZU (Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language) 
 
 

Programme

13.00–15.00 Arrival of guests, registration, sandwich and drink (Hotel Slon)

[14.30] Possibility of going to the venue together

15.00–17.00 EFNIL General Assembly (Atrij ZRC, Novi trg 2)

Social Program   

17.00-19.00 Organized Ljubljana Castle sightseeing (urban train) 

19.30 Gala event on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of EFNIL and the Škrabec foundation (Cankarjev dom, Trg republike) 

20.30 Reception buffet (Cankarjev dom)

Atrij ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana

9.30-11.00 Opening session 

9.30/45-10.30 Welcome address

10.30-11.00 Gerhard Stickel: 20 Years of European Language Cooperation (invited speaker) (pdf)

11.00-11.20 Coffee break

11.20-13.00 Thematic session1: Development of Language portals

11.20-11.50 Starkaður Barkarson: Language Portals, an overview (invited speaker) (pdf | videodue to problems with the sound recording, subtitles have been added)

11.50-12.10 Frida Steurs: The Dutch Language Institute: towards a comprehensive digital language infrastructure (pdf |videodue to problems with the sound recording, subtitles have been added)

12.10-12.30 Kristina Koppel: From online dictionaries to language infrastructure: developments in Estonia (pdf | videodue to problems with the sound recording, subtitles have been added)

12.30-12:40 Valeria Darò: IATE – EU Terminology for All (pdf | video due to problems with the sound recording, subtitles have been added)

12:40-13.00 Discussion (video due to problems with the sound recording, subtitles have been added)

13.00-14.00 Lunch (catering, Novi trg 4)

14.00-16.00 Thematic session 2: Users involvement

14.00-14.30 Janoš Ježovnik: User-focused language resources in Slovenia: towards universal solutions (invited speaker) (pdf | video)

14.30-14.50 Henna Leskelä: Renewing the Finnish database of guidelines (pdf | video)

14.50-15.10 Cecilia Robustelli: Online dictionaries and language infrastructures for the Italian language in the digital era (pdf | video)

15.10 -15.40 Discussion (video)

15.40-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.00 Thematic session 3: Users involvement

16.00 -16.20 Maria Arapopoulou, Dimitrios Koutsogiannis: The dictionaries of the “Portal for the Greek Language” as designed and pedagogically recontextualized (pdf) | video)

16.20-16.40 Janne Boye Niemelä: How to involve language users in language advice for Danish Sign Language (pdf | video)

16.40-17.00 Discussion (video)

Social Program

18.40 Walk to the conference dinner

19.00-22.00 Conference dinner at Švicarija restaurant, Pod turnom 4, Ljubljana

[20.00] Johan Van Hoorde: The history and the first years of EFNIL

Atrij ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana

9.00-10.10 Thematic session 4: Resources for research

9.00-9.30 Darja Fišer: CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources (invited speaker) (pdf | video)

9:30-9:40 Filip Majcen: Multilingualism in the EU in times of generative AI (video)

9.40-9.50 Sabine Kirchmeier: Orthographic practices in Europe: results of an EFNIL survey (pdf | video)

9.50-10.10 Discussion (video)

10.10-11.00 Thematic session 5: Resources for research (poster session)

10.10-11.00 Posters and (simultaneous) coffee break: 

Elena Isabelle Tamba: Romanian Linguistic and Lexicographic Resources in the Digital Age (poster)

Svetla Koeva: Online dictionaries and Dictionary portal of the Institute for Bulgarian Language (poster)

Alexandre Ecker: The Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire, a linguistic Swiss Army knife (poster)

Magnus Ahltorp: Shrinking Lexin: Challenges of a Swedish second-language learner’s dictionary on small screens (poster)

Ewa Rudnicka: Codification and rethinking the Polish language as a “native language” from the perspective of online dictionaries, language portals and selected social media profiles (poster)

11.00-11.40 EFNIL Master’s Thesis Awards: 

– Morali Fani (supervisor: Dr. Manoli Polyxeni): Exploring refugee children’s bilingualism through multimodal identity texts (pdf | video)

– Julia Elena Pardo: #dudaRAE: A merging analysis of folk prescriptivism and dialectology (pdf | video)

– Denise Weghofer: Scaffolding and Reading in German Lessons in Lower Secondary Education – Using Scaffolding Tools to Become Successful Second Language Readers (pdf | video)

12.00-12.20 Discussion

12.20-13.00 Concluding remarks and panel discussion (Kozma Ahačič, Sabine Kirchmeier)

Social program  

13.00-15.00 Lunch and cruise on board: the Ljubljana tourist boat, Ljubljanica river