MetroLex (Sept. 29, 2017) — Angus Grieve-Smith (1 of 3)
Channel: Stevonnie
Date: 2018-07-09

"The Challenge of Representativeness in the 1971 Trésor de la Langue Française Dictionary"

Angus Grieve-Smith, a corpus linguist, considers what happened when lexicographers for France's equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary, the Trésor de la Langue Française, first incorporated digitized texts but based their corpus on the authority of literary critics, providing an inadequate picture of the French language. 

The Dictionary Society of North America has partnered with local organizations in the New York City area to establish a series of meetups called MetroLex. MetroLex meetups bring together lexicographers, linguists, technologists, educators, and other language professionals to share research and projects relating to dictionary technology, dictionary use, language documentation, semantic ontologies, and lexicography.

This installment of MetroLex, "Digitization And Its Discontents," focused on the lexicographical challenges of the transition from print to digital, with a consideration of what is lost and gained in the process. It was held at Columbia University, hosted by associate professor of English and comparative literature John H. McWhorter.

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