Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver is a research professor of African linguistics in the department of languages and cultures at Ghent University (Belgium) and an extraordinary professor in the department of African languages at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He holds an MSc in microelectronic engineering from University College Ghent, as well as an MA and a PhD in African languages and cultures from Ghent University. As the author or co-author of over 300 books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers, he has focused on Bantu corpus linguistics and lexicography. His publications include award-winning dictionaries for Northern Sotho, Zulu, and Xhosa, published by OUP, as well as various online dictionaries, including the most popular one for Swahili. He has served as president of AFRILEX (2009–2013) and in other capacities on the executive boards of AFRILEX (2001–2009), EURALEX (2006–2014), ASIALEX (2007–2013), and AUSTRALEX (2008–2013). He is currently president of EURALEX (2018–2020).
Judit Freixa is a tenured lecturer at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She is the director of the Observatori de Neologia (part of the IULATERM research group at the same university) and the coordinator of the network of neology observatories Antenas Neológicas. Her research focuses on lexicon, specifically in neology and terminology, with a particular interest in sociolinguistic aspects. She is currently a main researcher in the following competitive projects on neology: NEÓMETRO: Measurement of neologicity and dictionarity (State Research Plan MINECO/FEDER Ref. FFI2016-79129-P) and GARBELL: Analyzer of the dictionarity of Catalan neologisms (IEC: PRO2018-S04-FREIXA). Most of her works are published in high impact journals (such as Terminology, Meta, Histoire epistemologie langage, Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, Sendebar, Caplletra, Revista de Llengua i Dret, Revista Española de Lingüística).
Indrek Hein is Senior Software Developer at the Institute of the Estonian Language. His research interests include language technology, speech technology, and automated morphology.
Hae-Yun Jung received her MA in Korean Studies from SOAS University of London and is currently doing her PhD at Kyungpook National University (Daegu, South Korea) under the supervision of Kilim Nam. Her PhD thesis is concerned with the treatment of pragmatic information in bilingual (French-Korean) lexicography, with particular attention to politeness. Her research interests include lexicography and cross-cultural pragmatics.
Jelena Kallas, Institute of the Estonian Language, Senior Computational Lexicographer-Project Manager. She is a member of the Board of the European Association of Lexicographers (EURALEX) and a member of the Project Management Board of the HORIZON 2020 project "European Lexicographic Infrastructure" (ELEXIS). Her research interests include corpus lexicography, learners' lexicography, and CALL.
Ilan Kernerman is CEO of K Dictionaries and leads its resource development and collaboration with partners in industry and academia. His lexicographic background is mainly in learner's, multilingual and digital dictionaries, and his main lexicographic interests concern interoperability with language technology and data science. He is editor and publisher of Kernerman Dictionary News, co-editor of lexicographic publications and co-organizer of lexicography workshops. He is a past president of Asialex and current chair of Globalex.
Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus holds an MA in German linguistics from the University of Munich and a PhD in the same subject from the University of Bamberg. She has been a lexicographer for Duden and has authored and co-authored extensively on lexicography. Currently she heads the Lexicography and Language Documentation area and is chief editor of an online dictionary of neologisms at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim.
Margit Langemets, Institute of the Estonian Language, head of the Dictionary Department. Her research interests include corpus lexicography, lexicology, and applied linguistics.
Soojin Lee is a lecturer at the Department of Korean Language and Literature in Kyungpook National University (Daegu, South Korea), where she obtained her MA (on academic keywords) and is doing her PhD. She has been a member of the research group for the Korean Neologisms Investigation Project since 2012. Her research interests include lexicography, lexicology, and neology.
Kilim Nam is a professor at the Department of Korean Language and Literature in Kyungpook National University (Daegu, South Korea). She holds a PhD in...
