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"Digital Dictionaries" panel, MLA 2013

The Discussion Group on Lexicography sponsored a session on digital dictionaries at the MLA annual meeting (Boston, January 5, 2013). David Jost, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster; Ben Zimmer, Visual Thesaurus/Vocabulary.com. Abstracts: http://mh.cla.umn.edu/MLA2013Lex.pdf

  1. MLA 2013 Program: Session 562
    562. Digital Dictionaries
    Mla
  2. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    Next up: #s562 "Digital Dictionaries" should be interesting. #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:44:13
  3. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Now in "Digital Dictionaries." #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:48:03
  4. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Moderator @MichaelHancher reports that most of his students said they used dictionary.com #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:50:01
  5. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    .@MichaelHancher: Students rely on Google search results for defining words, don't use print dictionaries. #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:50:44
  6. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Panelists work at Visual Thesaurus, m-w.com, and other famous dictionaries. #mla13 #s562
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:52:40
  7. pbmit
    Patsy Baudoin@pbmit
    Lexicographers about to start discussion of digital dictionaries #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:53:09
  8. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    Dictionary Society of North American sponsoring this session dictionarysociety.com #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:53:20
  9. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    David Jost: Houghton Mifflin digitized its holding in the 1960s. #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:56:29
  10. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Houghton digitized its "dictionary assets" in 1969, reports David Jost. #mla13 #s562
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 10:58:13
  11. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Houghton had hired its own programmers, which enabled them to move from SGML to XML and adopt Unicode. #mla13 #s562
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:02:35
  12. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    David Jost is the human voice for most of Houghton Mifflin's online word pronunciations… #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:03:04
  13. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    David Jost: "Online dictionaries allow the user to hear the word pronounced. I'm the voice for most o them." #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:03:35
  14. ttasovac
    Toma Tasovac@ttasovac
    David Jost: "Users can hear most of the words pronounced. Most of them -- by me." #mla13 #s562
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:03:58
  15. moncia
    Monica McCormick@moncia
    Houghton's work digitizing dictionaries gave them inhouse expertise, eased move to ebooks in other parts of the list. #mla13 #s562
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:06:07
  16. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    And now: @PeterSokolowski on "What We've Learned about Dictionary Use Online" #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:07:11
  17. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    "How many people here read the dictionary?" Many hands go up. "I suspect we're not representative." #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:10:00
  18. EpistolaryBrown
    Meaghan Brown@EpistolaryBrown
    "How many people here read the dictionary?" Most of the room raises their hands. Yeah, probably in the right place. #s562
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:10:45
  19. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    .@PeterSokolowski: only 2 kinds of people in the world: those that read the dictionary, and those that do not. #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:10:57
  20. NazcaTheMad
    Amanda Phillips@NazcaTheMad
    (Speaking of folks who read the dictionary, #s562) #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:53:58
  21. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Peter Sokolowski from M-W speaking now. "Looking up a word in the dictionary (or reading it) is a private act." #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:11:29
  22. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    .@PeterSokolowski: putting M-W Collegiate Dictionary online (for free) was a controversial decision. #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:13:29
  23. pbmit
    Patsy Baudoin@pbmit
    Samuel Johnson would never have known if nobody had read any given entry in his dictionary. #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:14:10
  24. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Great anecdote about "appendicitis" being omitted from the OED, frustrating attempts to look it up when the king got it. #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:14:44
  25. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Sokolowski: "it's by no means clear that putting our dictionary online for free in 1996 was a good idea." #s562 #mla13
    Sat, Jan 05 2013 11:15:32

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