Preliminary Conference Schedule

Details subject to change. Prettier version, with links to abstracts, up soon.



Thursday June 14

8:30
Anatoly Liberman
MY HALF-LIFE IN LEXICOGRAPHY
8:55
Frank Abate
The Marketing and Merchandising of Reference Products in the USA and the Rest of the World
9:20
Don R. McCreary
The Microstructure of an American College Desk Dictionary and its Effect on the Comprehension of “Hard Words” by American College Students.
9:45
Muffy Siegel
What Do You Do with a Dictionary? A Study of Undergraduate Dictionary Use
10:10
Johnny Carrera
Webster's Dictionary as Visual Reference

BREAK

11:05
Joe Pickett
Considered and Regarded: Indicators of Belief and Doubt in Dictionary Definitions
11:30
Paul Heacock
Taboo or Not Taboo? That Is the Question!
11:55
Orin Hargraves
Americanization and its Mal-contents

LUNCH

2:00
Gerald Cohen
"Origin of NYC's Nickname 'The Big Apple'; Latest Research on This Topic."
2:25
Anne Dykstra
Buter, bréad ind griene tsjiis Is goed Ingelsk ind goed Friisk
2:50
Lise Winer
Disentangling Etymology and Deciding on Orthography in the Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago
3:15
Ellen Johnson
The Introduction of Sanskrit Loanwords into American English by Yoga Teachers
3:40
August Imholtz
The Mushri-English Pronouncing Dictionary - Some Further ?aughts

BREAK


4:50
Sarah Ogilvie
World English and the OED Supplements: the mysterious case of the vanishing tramlines
5:15
Peter Gilliver
Early American connections with the Oxford English Dictionary, 1859–1884
5:40
Charlotte Brewer
‘Writers and the Dictionary: Auden and the OED’

FRIDAY June 15


8:30
Connie Eble
Louisiana creole: an evolving ethnic label
8:55
Stefan Dollinger and Laurel J. Brinton
Revising the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles in the information age: Some insights from the letter “G”
9:20
Dianne Bardsley
Hermits, Hokonuis, and Huntaways: the distinctive rural New Zealand English lexicon.
9:45
Dan Cristea
Digitization of the thesaurus lexicon of the Romanian language
10:10
Arregi X., Arriola J.M., et al
Semiautomatic Construction of the Electronic Euskal Hiztegia Basque Dictionary (eEHBD)

BREAK


11:05
Orion Montoya
CARE AND FEEDING OF A CORPUS
11:30
Benjamin Zimmer
Charting the Digital Future of Dictionary Research: Prospects for Online Collaborative Lexicography
11:55
Wayne Glowka
The American Dialect Society’s Words of the Year as a Lexicographical Challenge

LUNCH


CORDELL COLLECTION PANEL: 2:00 to 4:20
David McCarter
THE BODY OF JESUS AND THE MIND OF CHRIST: PHYSIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND CHRISTOLOGY IN SCOTT’S REVISION OF BAILEY’S DICTIONARY (1755)

Linda Mitchell
Creating Ethos in Early Modern British Dictionaries

Mira Podhajecka
Edmund Bohun’s Geographical Dictionary (1688): A Study in the 17th Century Geographical Discourse

Monique Cormier
Usage Labels in the Royal Dictionary (1699) by Abel Boyer

Rod McConchie
The simple pleasure of turning pages: The Cordell collection as a research tool

BREAK


4:50
Shlomo Argamon et al
Building A Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis by Automatically Analyzing Dictionary Glosses
5:15
Janet Decesaris
Dictionaries and Phraseology
5:40
Raphael Salkie
Assessing lexicographic relevance: a case study with a translation corpus
6:05
Marco Fiola
Usage Labels for Gender-Linked Language Usage in English and French

SATURDAY June 16


8:30
Elizabeth Knowles
‘Spicing them up with learning and Latin’: changing uses for a dictionary of quotations
8:55
Michael Hancher
Imagining the Dictionary: Evidence from Early English Books Online
9:20
Donna Farina
Russian-English and English-Russian Lexicography in the Nineteenth Century
9:45
Ronald R. Butters
“Life’s Good” Trademark Litigation and Lexicography
10:10
Jesse Sheidlower
"The Quotation Paragraph in Historical Lexicography"

BREAK


PANEL 11:05 to 11:55
Deborah Anderson et al.
Online Dictionaries for Historic and Lesser Known Languages: An Update

11:55
Paul Fallon
Designing a Lexical Database for the Blin Language

LUNCH


2:00
Julie Coleman
Wentworth and Flexner: An American Institution
2:25
Jonathon Green
Dating a Slang Dictionary: 'Historical principles' in a hi-tech world
2:50
Gary Simes
Sexual Lexicography
3:15
Lisa Berglund
The Parrys’ Dictionary: A Bibliographical Case Study for the Classroom
3:40
Salena Sampson
The History of the Genitive its: Examining the Role of Syntactic Information in Diachronic Dictionaries

4:30 to 5:45
New Word Open Mic

Other Hotels/Lodging Options

Lots of folks are interested in staying someplace other than the Max Palevsky dorm during the conference. Here's a quick list of close-ish local hotels:

There is one hotel in Hyde Park, the Ramada Lake Shore, which is at 4900
S. Lake Shore Drive, 773-288-5800. We have a special conference rate of
$95/night reserved; use DSNA when you call.

Unfortunately, it's a considerable walk (>10 blocks) from the Oriental Institute.

There are quite a few hotels by the McCormick Place Convention Center, which is at King Drive and 31st street. Here's a list: McCormick Hotels Guide.

For these, you would probably want to rent a car; there should be plenty
of parking on campus as there will be no classes in session -- and
there's also a parking structure that's $20/day.

You could also stay in the Loop, and take the Metra commuter train to
Hyde Park; any hotel south of, say, Huron Avenue, north of Balbo, and
east of LaSalle would put you in a nice walking distance of the Metra
Station, or even the #6 Jeffrey bus, which goes directly down Michigan
Avenue to Hyde Park. Here's a link to help with the CTA: Transportation in Hyde Park.


If you are adventuresome and on a more limited budget, your best bet for lodging (other than the dorms) is to use Priceline.com and name your own price. Here's a site that will help you bid: Better Bidding. With this site you can see what other folks have bid for hotel rooms and gauge your bid accordingly. By choosing only the "Millennium Park, Loop & Grant Park Area" and the "North Michigan Ave - River North Area" and only bidding on hotels three stars and higher, you are likely to get a very nice room for a good price. However, you have to take what they assign you, you may not cancel, and you can only try for the same area for the same dates every three days, so you may want to start bidding now!