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Australex. September 25, 2007 Specialist vocabulary and dictionaries

Draft Program

Tuesday, 25 September – University of Adelaide (North Terrace Campus, Napier Building LG23)

8.00 – 9.00 am	Registration and Welcome
9.15 – 10.15	Keynote Speaker. Adam Smith, Pam Peters, Macquarie University Computer corpora and terminography: the TermFinder project
10.15 – 10.30	Morning Tea
10.30 – 11.00	Jirapa Vitayapirak , King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkraban, Thailand Bilingualized technical dictionaries: the needs of Thai ESP learners
11.00 - 11.30	Rodney C. Jubilado & Maria Khristina S. Manueli, University of Malaya The Features of Malay and Tagalog Dictionaries
11.30 – 12.00	Paul Sutton The Fatal Cleopatra
12.00 – 12.30	Julia Miller , Flinders University Idioms in English learners dictionaries
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 14.00	Lan Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Corpora and the Internet as resources for new financial terms
14.00 – 14.30	Giles-Maurice de Schryver, Ghent University (Belgium), University of the Western Cape (South Africa), and TshwaneDJe HLT On the need to guide the compilation of reference works with a ruler
14.30 – 15.00	Juliane Klein, University of Leipzig The need to compile standardized technical vocabularies for the official African languages of South Africa – attempt at a theoretical framework
15.00 – 15.15	Afternoon Tea
15.15 – 15.45	Michael Walsh, University of Sydney The lexicon of Australian Aboriginal song
15.45 – 16.15	Rob Amery (University of Adelaide) & Vincent Kanya Buckskin (Kaurna Warra Pintyandi) Pinning Down Kaurna Names: Linguistic Issues Arising in the Development of the Kaurna Place Names Database
16.15 – 16.45	Ghil'ad Zuckermann, University of Queensland One Toponym, Two Parents: Ideological Hebraization of Arabic Place-Names in Zionist Israeli

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