20th EFNIL Conference, Ljubljana
WEDNESDAY, 11 OCTOBER
13.00–14.30 Arrival of guests, registration, sandwiches and drinks (Hotel Slon)
14.30 Joint departure to the venue
15.00–17.00 EFNIL General Assembly
Social programme
17.00–18.30 Organized Ljubljana Castle sightseeing
19.00–19.45 Welcome reception
20.00–21.00 Gala event on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of EFNIL and the Škrabec Foundation
THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER
Atrij ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana
9.30–11.00 Opening session
9.30–10.30 Welcome address
- Kozma Ahačič, ZRC SAZU, Fran
Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, head
- Oto Luthar, ZRC SAZU, director
- Lenart J. Kučić, Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, advisor to the minister
- Valeria Darò, European Commission,
Directorate-General for Translation, director
- Filip Majcen, European Commission,
Directorate-General for Interpretation, director
- Sabine Kirchmeier, EFNIL,
president
10.30–11.00 Gerhard Stickel: EFNIL – 20 Years of European Language Cooperation
11.00–11.20 Coffee break
11.20–13.00 Thematic session 1: Development of Language Portals
Chair: Andreas Witt
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
12.30–12.40 Valeria Darò: IATE – EU Terminology for All
12.40–13.00 Discussion
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–16.00 Thematic session 2: User Involvement
Chair: Elena Isabelle Tamba
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, Francesca Cialdini: Online dictionaries and language infrastructures for the Italian language in the digital era
15.10–15.40 Discussion
15.40–16.00 Coffee break
16.00–17.00 Thematic session 3: User Involvement
Chair: Svetla Koeva
16.00–16.20 Maria Arapopoulou, Dimitrios Koutsogiannis: The dictionaries of the “Portal for the Greek Language” as designed and pedagogically recontextualized environments
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 programme
18.40 Walk to the conference dinner
19.00–22.00 Conference dinner at Švicarija restaurant
[20.00] Johan Van Hoorde: The history and the first years of EFNIL
with contributions by Ina Druviete, Cecilia Robustelli, John Simpson and Gerhard Stickel
FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER
9.00–10.10 Thematic session 4: Resources for Research
Chair: Tamás Váradi
9.00–9.30 Darja Fišer: CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources (invited speaker)
9.30–9.40 Filip Majcen: Multilingualism in the EU in times of generative AI
9.40–9.50 Claire-Lyse Chambron: Language policies, online dictionaries and language infrastructures for the promotion of the French language and other European languages
9.50–10.20 Discussion
10.20–11.00 Thematic session 5: Resources for Research (poster session)
Chair: Nataša Gliha Komac
- 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
11.00–12.00 EFNIL Master’s Thesis Awards
Co-chairs: Ari Páll Kristinsson, Åse Wetås
- Julia Elena Pardo: #dudaRAE: A merging analysis of folk prescriptivism and dialectology
- Fani Morali: Exploring refugee children’s bilingualism through multimodal identity texts
- Denise Weghofer: Scaffolding and Reading in German Lessons in Lower Secondary Education – Using Scaffolding Tools to Become Successful Second Language Readers
11.45–12.10 Discussion
12.10–12.30 Sabine Kirchmeier: Orthographic practices in Europe: Results of an EFNIL survey
12.30–13.10 Concluding remarks and panel discussion (Andreas Witt, Dimitrios Koutsogiannis, Ewa Rudnicka, Nataša Gliha Komac; co-chaired by Kozma Ahačič and Sabine Kirchmeier)
Social programme
13.10–15.00 Lunch and cruise on board the Ljubljana tourist boat, Ljubljanica river
