{"id":86,"date":"2017-01-28T08:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T07:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2017-11-14T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:43:18","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-a403fac48cce1450659996ee2fbbae81\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-a403fac48cce1450659996ee2fbbae81 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-a403fac48cce1450659996ee2fbbae81 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-a403fac48cce1450659996ee2fbbae81 av-styling- av-hover-grow avia_animated_image av-animated-when-visible-95 bottom-to-top avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-245 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-245 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/frieda_steurs-1-300x300.jpg' alt='' title='Frieda Steurs'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-396ddf1f42196ca838231e61a4602801 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Frieda Steurs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Dutch Language Institute:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Central Hub for Dutch Language Resources<\/p>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-e8cdf033337fdbad65431dac191ab423-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><a href='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/abstract-steurs-elex-2017.docx'  class='avia-button av-av_button-e8cdf033337fdbad65431dac191ab423 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-small avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue826' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >download abstract<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:12px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Frieda Steurs is a full professor at the KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, campus Antwerpen. She works in the field of terminology, language technology, specialized translation and multilingual document management. She is a member of the research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variation Linguistics (QLVL).<\/p>\n<p>Her research includes projects with industrial partners and public institutions. She is the founder and former president of NL-TERM, the Dutch terminology association for both the Netherlands and Flanders. She is also head of the ISO TC\/37 standardization committee for Flanders and the Netherlands and the president of TermNet, the International Network for Terminology (Vienna).<br \/>\nShe has coordinated a large number of research projects in the field of translation technology, terminology management and digital language resources. Some recent projects are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TermWise : creating resources for specialized language use (IOF funding KU Leuven 2009-2013)<\/li>\n<li>Scate : SCATE &#8211; Smart Computer-Aided Translation Environment (IWT 2014-2018)<\/li>\n<li>COST e-Lex : e-lexicography (ISCH COST Action IS1305 2013-2017)<\/li>\n<li>COST enetCOLLECT: computer assisted language learning and crowdsourcing techniques (ISCH COST Action CA16105 2017-2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since 2016, she hs been the head of research of the INT, the Dutch Language Institute in Leiden. In this capacity, she is responsible for the collection, development and hosting of all digital language resources for the Dutch language. The INT is the CLARIN centre for Flanders, Belgium.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-ea3232429b17ddfdbd0d6b5f6c077a87\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-ea3232429b17ddfdbd0d6b5f6c077a87 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-ea3232429b17ddfdbd0d6b5f6c077a87 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-ea3232429b17ddfdbd0d6b5f6c077a87 av-styling- av-hover-grow avia_animated_image av-animated-when-visible-95 bottom-to-top avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-7  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-246 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-246 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Titov-300x300.jpg' alt='' title='Ivan Titov'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p><div id='avia-messagebox-' class='avia_message_box av_notification av-av_notification-eb58a221b75eb51cc50d88b3b2e3f36c avia-color-red avia-size-large avia-icon_select-yes avia-border-dashed  avia-builder-el-9  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first ' ><span class='avia_message_box_title' >Programme change<\/span><div class=\"avia_message_box_content\"><span class='avia_message_box_icon' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue83e' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><p>We regret to announce that Ivan Titov will be unable to attend.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-396ddf1f42196ca838231e61a4602801 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Ivan Titov<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Probabilistic modeling of word meaning in context<\/strong><\/p>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-24d12b7798e2ca6f659fde839645bd7a-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-11  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><a href='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/abstract-titov-eLex-2017.doc'  class='avia-button av-av_button-24d12b7798e2ca6f659fde839645bd7a avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-small avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue826' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >download abstract<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:12px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ivan Titov is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and about to start as a Reader at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation of the University of Edinburgh. He is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant on Semantic Analysis (2015), Dutch Personal Grant VIDI (2015) and the Google Focused Research Award on Natural Language Understanding. His main research interests are in statistical modeling for natural language processing (including semantic and syntactic parsing, discourse modelling, knowledge extraction and question answering).<\/p>\n<p>He is an action editor for Transactions of ACL, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), an editorial board member for Journal for AI research (JAIR). He has also served as an area chair for ACL, EMNLP, NIPS, ICLR, EACL, a PC chair for *SEM, and an advisory board member of the European Association for Computational Linguistics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-09dc80aa7ca21ba86d5ab6d3ea05bc71\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-09dc80aa7ca21ba86d5ab6d3ea05bc71 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-09dc80aa7ca21ba86d5ab6d3ea05bc71 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:28px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-09dc80aa7ca21ba86d5ab6d3ea05bc71 av-styling- av-hover-grow avia_animated_image av-animated-when-visible-95 bottom-to-top avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-14  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-563 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-563 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/jsolomon-300x300.jpg' alt='' title='Jane Solomon'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-396ddf1f42196ca838231e61a4602801 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2><a id=\"jane\"><\/a>Jane Solomon<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Of Lookups, Trending Words, and Emoji: <\/strong>Meaning in the Internet Age<\/p>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-8e1eb7f985550ee6dcaa13b12fda0db4-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-17  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><a href='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/abstract-solomon-eLex-2017.docx'  class='avia-button av-av_button-8e1eb7f985550ee6dcaa13b12fda0db4 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-small avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue826' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >download abstract<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:12px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Jane Solomon is a lexicographer based in Oakland, CA. She spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dictionary.com\/author\/jane-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dictionary.com<\/a>. In the past, she\u2019s worked with other dictionary publishers including Cambridge, HarperCollins, Oxford, and Scholastic. Jane is a coauthor of <a href=\"https:\/\/independent.academia.edu\/SolomonJane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Among the New Words&#8221;<\/a>, a quarterly article in the journal American Speech. She is also part of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, the group that votes on what new emoji pop up on our devices. In her free time, Jane enjoys researching emerging slang and writing about it on her blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexicalitems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lexical Items<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-c49c3a66a84337a371d385f1bf1f2ba2\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-c49c3a66a84337a371d385f1bf1f2ba2 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-c49c3a66a84337a371d385f1bf1f2ba2 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:28px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-c49c3a66a84337a371d385f1bf1f2ba2 av-styling- av-hover-grow avia_animated_image av-animated-when-visible-95 bottom-to-top avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-20  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-249 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-249 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Rutkowski-780x1024-300x300.png' alt='' title='Pawe\u0142 Rutkowski'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-396ddf1f42196ca838231e61a4602801 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2><a id=\"pawel\"><\/a>Pawe\u0142 Rutkowski<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sign language as a challenge to electronic lexicography:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language and beyond<\/p>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-1447c514b665a282ff1d05d92e40e5f6-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-23  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><a href='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/abstract-rudkowski-elex-2017.pdf'  class='avia-button av-av_button-1447c514b665a282ff1d05d92e40e5f6 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-small avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue826' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >download abstract<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:12px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Dr. Pawe\u0142 Rutkowski, aged 38, the creator and head of the Section for Sign Linguistics at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.uw.edu.pl\/en\">the University of Warsaw<\/a>, is a general linguist and a specialist in the field of syntax of natural languages, carrying out research on Polish Sign Language (polski j\u0119zyk migowy \u2014 PJM). He is the author of more than one hundred academic publications and textbooks, including several dozen papers published internationally. He has been awarded a number of prizes, grants and scholarships by such institutions as the Foundation for Polish Science, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre, Poland, Polish\u2013U.S. Fulbright Commission, Kosciuszko Foundation and DAAD. He has made long-term research visits to the USA (Yale University, Wayne State University) and to leading European universities (Oxford, Madrid, Potsdam).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rutkowski\u2019s main research goal in the last five years has been to conduct an extensive corpus-based investigation into the grammar and lexicon of PJM. His team is compiling the first-ever large-scale corpus of PJM. The underlying idea is to gather video data consisting of elicited and spontaneous sign language utterances, produced by signers who either have deaf parents or have used PJM since early school age.<br \/>\nThe results of this corpus project were used as the empirical basis for the Corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language, the first dictionary of that language prepared in compliance with modern lexicographical standards. The dictionary is an open-access publication, available freely at the following address: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slownikpjm.uw.edu.pl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.slownikpjm.uw.edu.pl\/en\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rutkowski is the winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kilgarriff.co.uk\/prize\/\">Adam Kilgarriff Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-f727c3e4551722b74c28a4df44027287\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-f727c3e4551722b74c28a4df44027287 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-f727c3e4551722b74c28a4df44027287 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:28px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-f727c3e4551722b74c28a4df44027287 av-styling- av-hover-grow avia_animated_image av-animated-when-visible-95 bottom-to-top avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-26  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-250 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-250 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/zimmer-300x300.jpg' alt='' title='Ben Zimmer'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-27  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-396ddf1f42196ca838231e61a4602801 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2><a id=\"ben\"><\/a>Ben Zimmer<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Defining the Digital Dictionary:<br \/>\n<\/strong>How to Build More Useful Online Lexical References<\/p>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-cddce3f04a2cf81d76f73870ecaee330-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-29  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><a href='https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/abstract-zimmer-elex-2017.pdf'  class='avia-button av-av_button-cddce3f04a2cf81d76f73870ecaee330 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-small avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue826' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >download abstract<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:12px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-5d2b9ab38e1b92f7d09214bd3bf62f5b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ben Zimmer is a linguist, lexicographer, and all-around word nut. He is the language columnist for The Wall Street Journal and former columnist for The Boston Globe and The New York Times Magazine. Zimmer has worked as the executive editor of Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus. He was also editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. His writing about language has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Forbes, and Slate. He has been interviewed widely about words and language on radio and television.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmer studied linguistics as an undergraduate at Yale University and linguistic anthropology as a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He conducted linguistic fieldwork in Indonesia, and taught courses on language and culture at UCLA, Kenyon College, and Rutgers University. In 2005, as a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, he began contributing to Language Log, a group blog on language and linguistics.<br \/>\nZimmer is the Chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society and has served on the society\u2019s Executive Council. He organizes the selection of the ADS Word of the Year at the society&#8217;s annual conference and edits the quarterly feature &#8220;Among the New Words&#8221; for the journal American Speech. He is also active in the Dictionary Society of North America.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmer was awarded the Linguistic Society of America&#8217;s first ever Linguistics Journalism Award in 2015. 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