European Association for Lexicography

European Association for Lexicography
Name	European Association for Lexicography
Abbreviation	ELEX
Formation	1996
Type	Learned society
Headquarters	Madrid
Region served	Europe
Language	English
Leader title	President
Leader name	Rafał M. Górski

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European Association for Lexicography The European Association for Lexicography is a learned society founded to advance lexicographic research across Europe. It connects scholars, practitioners and institutions from cities such as Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Rome and Warsaw and interfaces with organizations like Council of Europe, European Commission, UNESCO, European Union and Council of the European Union. The association engages with projects linked to universities including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Bologna, University of Barcelona and University of Geneva.

History

The association emerged from meetings involving researchers from National Research Council (Italy), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Sorbonne University, Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Vienna and was shaped by contemporaneous gatherings such as the International Congress of Linguists, the IATEFL Conference, the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, the European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information and the British Association for Applied Linguistics symposium. Early contributors included scholars affiliated with Royal Spanish Academy, Accademia della Crusca, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Academy of Finland and Swedish Research Council. The formative era intersected with initiatives like Eurydice, Lingua Franca Nova workshops, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages discussions and panels at the European Lexicographers' Conference.

ELEX pursues objectives comparable to mandates of International Association of Applied Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, European Association for Machine Translation, Societas Linguistica Europaea and Royal Society. Its activities include promoting standards used by projects at European Centre for Modern Languages (Council of Europe), fostering collaborations with the Oxford University Press lexicography teams, advising publishers such as Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Routledge and Springer Nature, and supporting initiatives connected to Digital Humanities Observatory, CLARIN, DARIAH, ELRA and ELDA. The association organizes training that references work from British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Library of Spain, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze and Austrian National Library.

ELEX organizes biennial conferences that have been hosted in locations such as Prague, Bordeaux, Athens, Vienna and Lisbon and have featured keynote speakers associated with Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionary editorial teams, and institutes such as Leibniz Association, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and British Academy. Proceedings and edited volumes have been published in collaboration with John Benjamins Publishing Company, De Gruyter, Springer Nature and Routledge and are indexed alongside journals such as International Journal of Lexicography, Language Resources and Evaluation, Terminology, Computational Linguistics and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Conference streams have intersected with panels at European Linguistics Society meetings, workshops organized by Association for Computational Linguistics, European Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics and sessions at Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics.

ELEX has participated in or supported projects funded by European Commission frameworks including Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and Lifelong Learning Programme and collaborated with consortia such as CLARIN ERIC, DARIAH-EU, ELRA, ELDA and META-NET. It has partnered with language technology groups at Google Research, Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, Apple Machine Learning Research and Amazon Alexa teams, and engaged with initiatives from European Language Resources Association, Language Data Commons Initiative, Global WordNet Association and Universal Dependencies. Collaborative work has linked to museums and cultural institutions including British Museum, Louvre, The Prado, Uffizi Gallery and Rijksmuseum for multilingual lexical resources.