AFRILEX
7th
International Conference
Programme
Dates: |
8-10 July 2002 |
Hosts: |
Dictionary Unit for South African
English, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa |
Venue: |
Eden Grove, Rhodes University |
Theme: |
Culture and Dictionaries |
Monday 8 July 2002
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08:30
09:20 |
Tea
and Registration |
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09:20
09:35 |
Welcome
Chairperson of Afrilex (D.J. Prinsloo) |
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OFFICIAL
OPENING
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Word
from the Local Conference Organiser (K. Kavanagh) |
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Keynote Address 1 |
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09:35
10:30 |
Henning
Bergenholtz (Denmark) Towards
a User-oriented Understanding of Descriptive, Proscriptive and Prescriptive
Lexicography |
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10:35
11:00 |
Tea |
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Parallel
Sessions
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11:00
11:25 |
Godfrey Baile MAREME Prejudice
and Reality in a Setswana Monolingual Dictionary The Systematic and
Deliberate Biasing of Cultural Issues |
Rufus H. GOUWS Using
a Frame Structure to Accommodate Cultural Data |
11:30
11:55 |
Rachιlle GAUTON Bilingual
Zulu Dictionaries and the Translation of Culture |
M.P. Mogodi Layered
Definitions: A Northern Sotho Case Study |
12:00
12:25 |
P.A. MAVOUNGOU, T. AFANE
OTSAGA & G.-R. MIHINDOU Dictionaries
Compiled with French and the Reproduction of the Gabonese Cultures |
Kathryn KAVANAGH,
Philisiwe MANYISA, Disebo MOETI & Neo MPALAMI Work
in Progress: First Steps in Using a Bilingual Dictionary Framework |
12:30
12:55 |
Pieter N. VAN DER
WESTHUIZEN A
Southern African Lexicographer's Working Definition of the Term Culture |
Jacques A.J. VAN KEYMEULEN Making
a Dictionary of an Oral Tradition |
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13:00
14:00 |
Lunch |
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Parallel Sessions |
Special Session 1: Fundraising for Dictionary
Publishing |
14:00
14:25 |
Peter A. SCHMITT Culture-specific
Concepts in Technical Dictionaries |
Dirk
J. VAN SCHALKWYK Financing
of the National Lexicography Units (NLUs) in a New Lexicographic
Dispensation |
14:30
14:55 |
Elsabι TALJARD &
Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER Semi-Automatic
Term Extraction for the African Languages, with special reference to Northern
Sotho |
Jill
WOLVAARDT Dictionaries,
A Cultural Investment? Some Thoughts on Fundraising for Dictionary Projects |
15:00
15:25 |
Salmina NONG The Lexicographic Treatment of Loan Words in
Northern Sotho |
Mariλtta
ALBERTS Funding
for Technical Dictionaries |
15:30
15:55 |
Linda VAN HUYSSTEEN The Value of Culture in the Development of Medical Corpora in Zulu |
ROUND TABLE: Funding the Publication of Dictionaries
Action Plan |
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16:00
16:30 |
Tea |
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16:30
17:45 |
Visit
to The Dictionary Unit for South African English (DSAE) |
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18:00 |
Official
Welcome by the Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University (Dr. D. Woods) |
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Vice-Chancellor's Cocktail
Party (Venue: Albany History Museum) |
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Tuesday 9 July 2002
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Keynote Address 2 |
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09:00
09:55 |
A.C. NKABINDE (South Africa) Cultural
Implications on Lexicography |
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10:00 10:30 |
Tea |
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Parallel Sessions |
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10:30 10:55 |
L.E. MPHASHA Cultural Relativism in Dictionaries: Is this
the Right Direction? |
Penny SILVA The
OED as Cultural Icon |
11:00 11:25 |
Emmanuel CHABATA Language
Development in a Multilingual Society |
Gregory JAMES &
Bronson SO Ming Cheung Culture
and a Dictionary: Evidence from the First European Lexicographical Work in
China |
11:30
11:55 |
Emmanuel CHABATA &
Webster MAVHU Torn
Between Calling a Spade a Spade and Being Euphemistic: The Dilemma of a
Lexicographer Defining Offensive Headwords in Shona Monolingual Lexicography |
Ron MOE Compiling Dictionaries Using Semantic Domains |
12:00
12:25 |
Diapo
N. LEKGANYANE On Corpora and the Process
of Selecting High Function Words and Their Treatment in Currently Available
Dictionaries for Sepedi |
P.S. MALEBE & Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER From Corpus Data to the First isiNdebele Dictionaries |
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12:30
13:30 |
Lunch |
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Parallel Sessions |
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13:30
13:55 |
Esau MANGOYA Divergent
Approaches to Corpus Processing: The Need for Standardisation |
V.M. MOJELA The Etymological Aspects of the Idiomatic and
Proverbial Expressions in the Lexicographic Development of Sesotho sa Leboa
A Semantic Analysis |
14:00
14:25 |
Vezumuzi kaDayisa NDLOVU A
Corpus-based Approach to Terminography: An Analysis and Evaluation of the
ALRI Corpora |
Matete
MADIBA, Lorna MPHAHLELE & Matlakala KGANYAGO Capturing Cultural Glossaries: A Case Study
Presentation of N. Sotho Cooking Terms |
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14:30
15:10 |
GENERAL MEETING |
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15:15
15:30 |
Tea |
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15:30
17:30 |
Egazini
Tour |
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18:30 |
PHAROS Conference Dinner |
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Wednesday 10 July 2002
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Keynote Address 3 |
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09:00
09:55 |
Arvi HURSKAINEN (Finland) New Advances in Corpus-based
Lexicography |
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10:00
10:30 |
Tea |
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Parallel Sessions |
Special Session 2: Morphological Analysers for the
Bantu Languages (A joint
session of AFRILEX and the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Language and
Speech Technology Development of ALASA http://www.alasa.org.za/sig.) |
10:30 10:55 |
Karen HENDRIKS The
Treatment of Culture-Specific Lexical Items in Bilingual Dictionaries |
Sonja
E. BOSCH & Laurette PRETORIUS Using
Finite-State Computational Morphology to Enhance a Machine-Readable Lexicon |
11:00 11:25 |
Advice VIRIRI Missionary
Influence on Shona Lexicography, with Special Reference to Father Hannans
Problem of Translation |
Mandlenkosi MAPHOSA Word
Division and Orthography as Some of the Factors Posing Challenges in the
Development of the Ndebele Grammatical Parser |
11:30 11:55 |
Nomalanga MPOFU Cultural
Aspects in the Shona Monolingual Dictionary: Duramazwi Guru reChiShona |
Daniel RIDINGS &
Webster MAVHU Problems
and Challenges Encountered when Developing a Morphological Parser for the
Shona Language |
12:00 12:25 |
Langa KHUMALO History,
Language Contact and Lexical Change: A Lexicography/Terminography Interface
in Zimbabwean Ndebele |
Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER First
Steps in the Finite-State Morphological Analysis of Northern Sotho |
12:30 12:55 |
D.J. PRINSLOO The
Lemmatization of Copulatives in Northern Sotho |
Justus
C. ROUX & Sonja E. BOSCH Human
Language Technologies and the National Lexicography Units & ROUND TABLE |
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13:00
13:10 |
CLOSURE |
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13:15
14:15 |
Lunch |
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(1997) 3rd
(1998) 4th
(1999) 5th
(2000) 6th
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