Issues such as how to standardise headwords in eDIL and whether ghostwords ought always to be deleted will be discussed at the 18th EURALEX International Congress, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, this week. Sharon Arbuthnot’s paper ‘Updating and Expanding a Retro-digitised Dictionary: Some Insights from the Dictionary of the Irish Language’ is on Friday at 10.30am. The talk will be available on Videolectures.net soon after the conference. Details to follow!

Examples from the work being done on eDIL will feature in Anthony Harvey’s plenary lecture at the 3rd Poznán Conference of Celtic Studies on Monday, 9th July. Entitled ‘The Case of the Hidden Hazel Trees: Ghost-Busting and Word-Finding in Celtic Lexicography', the paper will discuss how dictionaries have tackled the issue of ghostwords and will introduce also the concepts of poltergeist words, Frankenstein words and even predator words!

The full programme can be accessed at:

https://poznanconferenceblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/programme-final2.pdf

An exciting week for eDIL! Two of our project members, Gregory Toner and Sharon Arbuthnot, are heading to Italy to present at this year's International Conference on Historical Lexicology and Lexicography (ICHLL) in Santa Margherita Ligure.

This year's 'Ulidia VI Fíanaigecht III' conference kicks off tomorrow on the Isle of Skye, and eDIL's Greg Toner is giving a paper on 'Language and Manuscript Transmission in Mesca Ulad' on Thursday.

See the draft programme here:
http://www.ulidiafinn2018.scot/clagraver-ama-dreachdail--draft-programme--dreacuteachtchlaacuter.html

Delighted to announce that Professor Greg Toner, who leads the eDIL Project, has been elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy. Heartfelt congratulations to Prof. Toner from the rest of the team!

In the news today, a new resource on Scottish Gaelic terms for shellfish. Plenty of new evidence on words for crabs and oysters and edible seaweed coming in the 2019 update of eDIL also!

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/new-gaelic-dictionary-for-shellfish-unveiled-1-4736157

New Gaelic dictionary for shellfish unveiled

Dozens of Gaelic names for Scottish shellfish have been published under a heritage agency’s drive to promote the use of the “fragile” language.

A busy period coming up for eDIL ….

As well as welcoming a new member of staff and conferences in Cork and Italy, Dr Sharon Arbuthnot will be speaking at the 18th Euralex International Congress, which will be held on 17-21 July in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The subject of her talk is ‘Updating and Expanding a Retro-digitised Dictionary: Some Insights from the Dictionary of the Irish Language’.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, who is currently an O'Donovan Scholar at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, will be joining the eDIL team from June 2018. Dr Theuerkauf will be based at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.

Excited to be part of the 32nd Irish Conference of Historians, which will be held at University College, Cork, on 26-28 April, 2018. This year’s theme is'Sex, Sexuality & Reproduction: Historical Perspectives', and eDIL’s Sharon Arbuthnot will be speaking on ‘The Lost Vocabulary of Medieval Irish Sex and Reproduction’.

We are very pleased to be taking part in the '9th International Conference on Historical Lexicology and Lexicography' in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, this summer. On Friday, 22 June, from 4.30pm onwards, eDIL will be discussed in the course of two papers from project staff:

Gregory Toner ‘Machine Learning and the Historical Lexicon of Irish’

Sharon Arbuthnot ‘Explanatory and Etymological Glosses in the Dictionary of the Irish Language’

https://ichll9.wordpress.com/programme/