AFRILEX
MINI-SEMINAR ON and LAUNCH OF
The First South African Online
Dictionary Interface
D.J. Prinsloo
President of AFRILEX, Head
of the Department of African Languages at the University of Pretoria, and
compiler of groundbreaking corpus-based dictionaries for the South African
languages
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Organiser of AFRILEX,
engineer, metalexicographer, and author of the state-of-the-art Lexicographers’ Dreams in
the Electronic Dictionary Age (International Journal of Lexicography 16.2)
David Joffe
Designer and creator of
“TshwaneLex”, the first South African software application for the compilation
of modern paper, electronic and online dictionaries
and
Salmina Nong
Co-compiler of the largest
Sesotho sa Leboa – English dictionary
INVITE YOU TO
A mini-seminar and launch of
The First South African Online Dictionary Interface:
DATE: 20 June 2003
VENUE: Conference Hall 100,
Conference Centre, University of Pretoria
REGISTRATION FEE: R100
Programme
|
08:30
– 09:00 |
REGISTRATION |
|
09:00
– 09:40 |
Product-driven
HLT Development for the African Languages Kagiso
Chikane |
|
09:40
– 10:20 |
From
Paper Dictionary to Electronic Dictionary to Online Dictionary D.J.
Prinsloo |
|
10:20
– 11:00 |
Online
Dictionaries on the Internet: An Overview for the African Languages Gilles-Maurice
de Schryver |
|
11:00
– 11:30 |
TEA |
|
11:30
– 12:10 |
Using
TshwaneLex for the Sesotho sa Leboa Dictionary Project
(SeDiPro) Salmina
Nong |
|
12:10
– 12:50 |
Placing
SeDiPro Online and Future Plans to Empower the African Languages in the
Digital Age David
Joffe |
|
13:00
– 14:00 |
LUNCH |
Please confirm your
participation by e-mail: schryver@postino.up.ac.za
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