20th EFNIL Conference, Ljubljana
Preliminary Programme
Wednesday 11 October
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)
Thursday 12 October
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)
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)
11.50-12.10 Frida Steurs: The Dutch Language Institute: towards a comprehensive digital language infrastructure
12.10-12.30 Kristina Koppel: From online dictionaries to language infrastructure: developments in Estonia
12.30-13.00 Discussion
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)
14.30-14.50 Henna Leskelä: Renewing the Finnish database of guidelines
14.50-15.10 Cecilia Robustelli: The reaction of the Italian language to inclusive policies
15.10 -15.40 Discussion
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
16.20-16.40 Janne Boye Niemelä: How to involve language users in language advice for Danish Sign Language
16.40-17.00 Discussion
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
Friday 13 October
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)
9.30-9.50 Sabine Kirchmeier: Orthographic practices in Europe: results of an EFNIL survey
9.50-10.10 Discussion
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
Svetla Koeva: Online dictionaries and Dictionary portal of the Institute for Bulgarian Language
Alexandre Ecker: The Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire, a linguistic Swiss Army knife
Magnus Ahltorp: Shrinking Lexin: Challenges of a Swedish second-language learner's dictionary on small screens
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
11.00-11.40 EFNIL Master's Thesis Awards
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
(For delegates that have to leave before the end there will be a packed lunch available.)
