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Monday 27 February, David Joffe and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver discussed the impact of ChatGPT on the field of lexicography. The seminar took place in Tokyo and kick-started a week in which Gilles-Maurice de Schryver talks on various lexicographic aspects of the future (see other ‘News’ items and the ‘Activities’ page).
For more information on this seminar, including theme, program, abstract, etc., see: http://codh.rois.ac.jp/seminar/lexicography-chatgpt-20230227/
The recording of this presentation can be found below the pictures.

What? The end of lexicography, welcome to the machine: On how ChatGPT can already take over all of the dictionary maker’s tasks
Who? Gilles-Maurice de Schryver & David Joffe
When? Mon 27 February 2023, 17:30-19:00 (Tokyo time)
Where? Hybrid (online and face-to-face at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, room 2005)
Contact person: Professor KITAMOTO Asanobu

Presentation 20th CODH seminar: ‘On how ChatGPT can take over all of the dictionary maker’s tasks’

[Gilles-Maurice de Schryver is on a lecture tour in Tokyo, presenting five papers on lexicography in a week, with a focus on Bantu languages and more generally for the field of (meta)lexicography as a whole. See for the other events the ‘News’ page as well as the ‘Activities’ page.]

What? The future of metalexicography: A bibliometric study
Who? Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
When? Fri 3 March, 18:00-19:30 (Tokyo time)
Where? Online [for the Lexicography SIG, Iwasaki Linguistic Circle, Tokyo]
Contact persons: Professor TONO Yukio & Professor AKASU Kaoru

The future of metalexicography: A bibliometric study

When? Thu 2 March 2023, 14:30-17:00 (Tokyo time)
Where? Venue at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Who and what?
• Minah Nabirye: Language documentation for Lusoga (Bantu, JE16)
• Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: From corpus to online lexicon for Swahili (Bantu, G42d), and what its searches can tell us about actual dictionary use
Contact person: Professor SHINAGAWA Daisuke

http://www.tufs.ac.jp/tokyo-african-linguistics-knot/2023/02/dddlingtalk20225.html

From corpus to online lexicon for Swahili, and what its searches tell us about actual dictionary use

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