ASIALEX 2023

Session

Session 2

23 Jun 2023, 10:30

Baekyang Nuri (The Commons) Level B1 (Yonsei University)

Conveners

Session 2: Bilingual and Multilingual Lexicography

• Shigeru Yamada

Session 2: Lexicology and Lexicography

• Besim Kabashi

Session 2: Terminology and Specialised Dictionaries

• Yongwei Gao

18. Identifying uncommon usages in common words with the same Chinese characters: A quantitative analysis on entities of Trilateral Common Vocabulary Dictionary

Li Fei

23/06/2023, 11:00

The languages of China, Japan, and Korea have created a significant number of lexicons derived from similar Chinese origins because of the Sinosphere's long-lasting influence. A considerable part of them exhibits semantic similarities as the characters comprise them often originate from common sources. Despite the fact that these cross-lingual near-synonyms overlap a substantial amount in...

17. Ideal Japanese-English dictionaries in the digital era

Shigeru Yamada

23/06/2023, 11:30

Japanese-English dictionaries (JEDs) are intended to help Japanese to produce texts in English. Those dictionaries have been developing with a number of innovative features to help the users with their productive activities. Currently, however, JEDs are put under tremendous pressure from digital translation tools and apps. In view of this, JEDs have to distinguish themselves from those digital...

36. A study on lexicon information and learner acceptance of loanwords

Sun-Woo Chang

24/06/2023, 11:00

Although loanwords do not take up a large proportion in the Korean vocabulary system, the actual usage frequency of loanwords is increasing day by day with the influx of foreign cultures. Loanwords are not foreign words and must abide by the language norms of Korean when they are used. Therefore, loanwords are also an important learning object for foreigners in the process of learning Korean....

34. Making known the what and the why: On foregrounding cultural information in bilingual lexicography

Cuilian Zhao

24/06/2023, 11:30

Language is deeply intertwined with culture, and understanding the cultural nuances embedded in words and phrases is crucial for effective communication. Bilingual dictionaries play a vital role in bridging the linguistic and cultural gaps between languages. The article explores the inclusion and representation of cultural information in bilingual lexicography, focusing specifically on...

54. The lexis of the Albanian language used in social media: An investigation

Besim Kabashi

24/06/2023, 12:00

The language usage in the so-called social media shows, in contrast to conventional language usage, additional phenomena. Some frequent of them, besides the fact that standard spelling is not always taken into account, are, above all, contractions, emoticons, and creative spellings.
In the Albanian language used in the social media such word forms, e. g. the abbreviation flm (short form for...

44. What academic words refer to in specialized texts and in specialized dictionaries?

Ping-Yu Huang

24/06/2023, 13:30

The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, we investigate whether academic words tend to show specialized meanings (e.g., resident as a physician being trained) in domain-specific corpora. Second, we offer suggestions for technical dictionaries based on our corpus investigation.
We focused on the medical domain, and developed a computational approach to automatically identify words which...

45. How many terminologies should be recorded in dictionaries? A case study of the OED

Yongwei Gao

24/06/2023, 14:00

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has been widely recognized as one of the most trustworthy references in the world. Its quarterly updates have helped it keep pace with the development of the vocabulary. Rather extensive as its coverage of the English vocabulary is, the OED may have one obvious failing that is related to the recording of terminologies of various kinds. Through close...

46. Avoiding “A certain kind of plant”: A case study in multidisciplinary approaches to lexicography

Eric Englert

24/06/2023, 14:30

Lexicography in the South Asian context often involves working with communities who live in areas with high degrees of endemism in both flora and fauna. According to the Botanical Survey of India, there are four biodiversity hotspots (viz. Himalaya, Indo-Burma, Sundaland, and Western Ghats and Sri Lanka) in South Asia. It is therefore inevitable that there will be lexical items collected for...

16. Building a multilingual learners’ idiomatic dictionary

Elena Berthemet

The paper discusses the treatment of idioms in a learners’ dictionary. Although idioms have received a fair amount of treatment in literature, they still present a challenge for natural language applications. Idioms are lexical signs, which have an opaque meaning in the sense that it cannot be deduced from the meaning of individual components. Learners are not always successful at finding the...

35. Korean words in the Oxford English Dictionary

Danica Salazar, Jieun Kiaer, Jiyoung Shin