Sue Atkins – Publications

Dictionaries

Collins-Robert English/French Dictionaries: Standard edition 1978, revised 1987; Concise edition 1981, Schools edition 1983

Consultant Adviser, Oxford-Hachette English/French Dictionary 1994

Books

(with Tom McArthur) Dictionary of English Phrasal Verbs. London: Collins (1974)

(with Michael Rundell) The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography. Oxford: OUP (2008)

Edited essays

1994: (with A. Zampolli) Computational Approaches to the Lexicon, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1998: Using Dictionaries: Studies of Dictionary Use by Language Learners and Translators, Tübingen : Niemeyer.

Papers

1985: “Monolingual & bilingual learners’ dictionaries: a comparison”. In: Dictionaries, Lexicography & Language Learning, (ed.) R. F. Ilson. Oxford: Pergamon. 15-24.

1986: (with J. Kegl & B. Levin) “Implicit and Explicit Information in Dictionaries”. In: Advances in Lexicology: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED, 45-63, Waterloo, Canada.

1987: (with H. Lewis, D. Summers, J. Whitcut) “A research project into the use of learners’ dictionaries” in The Dictionary and the Language Learner, A. P. Cowie (ed.), Niemeyer, Tübingen. 29-43

1987: “Semantic-ID tags: corpus evidence for dictionary senses”, in The Uses of Large Text Databases, proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the New OED Centre, University of Waterloo, Canada. 17-36.

1988: (with J. Kegl & B. Levin) “Anatomy of a verb entry: from linguistic theory to lexicographic practice”. In: International Journal of Lexicography, 1:2 Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 84-126. Also in Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker, Linguistica Computazionale IX-X. (eds.) A. Zampolli, N. Calzolari & M. Palmer (1994) Pisa: Giardini Editori. 237-266.

1988: (with B. Levin) “Admitting impediments”. In: Information in Text, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the New OED Centre, University of Waterloo, Canada. pp. 97-114. Also in Lexical Acquisition: Using On-Line Resources to Build a Lexicon, U. Zernik (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Inc. (1991). pp. 233-262.

1990: (with F. E. Knowles) “Interim report on the EURALEX / AILA Research Project into Dictionary Use”, in T. Magay & J. Zigany (eds) Proceedings of BudaLex ’88, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. pp. 381-392.

1991: “Corpus lexicography: the bilingual dimension”, in A. Zampolli & N. Calzolari (eds.) Computational Lexicology and Lexicography I, Giardini, Pisa. pp. 43-64.

1991: “Building a Lexicon: the Contribution of Lexicography”, in B. K. Boguraev (ed.) International Journal of Lexicography, 4:3, pp. 163-204. Also in Challenges in Natural Language Processing, M. Bates and R. Weischedel (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1993). pp. 37-75.

1992: “Putting lexicography on the professional map”, Proceedings of EURALEX ’90, M. Alvar Ezquerra (ed.), Bibliograf SA, Barcelona. pp. 519-526.

1992: (with J. H. Clear & N. Ostler) “Corpus design criteria”. In: Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing, (ed.) Gordon Dixon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1 – 16.

1992: “Tools for computer-aided corpus lexicography: the Hector project”, in Papers in Computational Lexicography: Complex’92, F. Kiefer, G. Kiss and J. Pajsz (eds.) Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. pp. 1-60. Also in Acta Linguistica Hungarica 41, F. Kiefer (ed.) (1991), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

1992: (with Charles J. Fillmore) “Towards a Frame-based Lexicon: the Semantics of RISK and its Neighbors”, in Frames, Fields and Contrasts: New Essays in Semantic and Lexical Organization, A. Lehrer & E. F. Kittay (eds.) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale, New Jersey. 75-102.

1992: (with N. Ostler) “Predictable meaning shift: some linguistic properties of lexical implication rules” in Lexical Semantics and Commonsense Reasoning, (eds.) J. Pustejovsky & S. Bergler , Springer-Verlag, NY. pp. 87-98.

1993: “Theoretical Lexicography and its relation to Dictionary-making”. In: Dictionaries: the Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, (guest editor) W. Frawley, DSNA, Cleveland Ohio. pp. 4-43.

1994: (with Charles J. Fillmore) “Starting where the dictionaries stop: the challenge of corpus lexicography”. In Atkins & Zampolli. 350-393

1994: (with Beth Levin & A. Zampolli) “Computational Approaches to the Lexicon: An Overview”. In Atkins & Zampolli. 17-45

1994: “A corpus-based dictionary”. In: Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (Introductory section). Oxford: Oxford University Press. xix – xxxii

1994: (with Charles J. Fillmore, J. B. Lowe & N. Urban) “The Dictionary of the Future: a Hypertext Database”. Presentation and on-line demonstration at the Xerox-Acquilex Symposium on the Dictionary of the Future, Uriage, France.

1995: “Analysing the verbs of seeing: a frame semantics approach to corpus lexicography”. In: Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994, (eds.) S. Gahl, C. Johnson & A. Dolbey, BLS, UC Berkeley, CA.

1995: (with Beth Levin) “Building on a Corpus: A linguistic and lexicographical look at some near-synonyms”. In: International Journal of Lexicography, 8 : 2. 85-114.

1995: “The Dynamic Database”. In: Machine Tractable Dictionaries, (ed.) Cheng-ming Guo, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ. 131-143.

1995: (with Charles J. Fillmore and Ulrich Heid) “Lexicographical Relevance in Corpus Evidence”, Deliverable D-IX-2 of DELIS Project (LRE 61.034).

1995: “The role of the example in a frame semantics dictionary”. In: Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics, in honor of Charles J. Fillmore. (eds.) Shibatani, Masayoshi & Sandra Thompson. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 25-42.

1996: “Bilingual Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future”. In: Euralex’96 Proceedings, (eds.) Gellerstam, M. , J. Järborg, S.-G. Malmgren, K. Norén, L. Rogström and C. R. Papmehl. Gothenburg: Gothenburg University, Department of Swedish. 515-590.

1996: (with Beth Levin and Grace Song) “Making Sense of Corpus Data: A Case Study”. In: Euralex’96 Proceedings , (eds.) Gellerstam, M. , J. Järborg, S.-G. Malmgren, K. Norén, L. Rogström and C. R. Papmehl. Gothenburg: Gothenburg University, Department of Swedish. 345-354.

1997: (with K. Varantola) “Monitoring Dictionary Use”. In International Journal of Lexicography, 10:1, 1-45, and reprinted in Atkins (1998).

1997: (with Beth Levin and Grace Song) “Making Sense of Corpus Data: A Case Study of Verbs of Sound”. In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2:1 23-64.

1998: (with Charles J. Fillmore) “FrameNet and Lexicographic Relevance”. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference On Language Resources And Evaluation, Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998

1998: (with K. Varantola) “Language Learners Using Dictionaries: The Final Report of the EURALEX- and AILA-sponsored Research Project into Dictionary Use”. In Atkins (1998).

1998: (with Jan H. Hulstijn ) “Empirical research on dictionary use in foreign-language learning: an overview”. In Atkins (1998).

2000: (with Charles J. Fillmore) “Describing polysemy : the case of crawl”. In Polysemy: Linguistic and Computational Approaches, (eds) Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2002: (with Nuria Bel, Francesca Bertagna, Pierrette Bouillon, Nicoletta Calzolari, Christiane Fellbaum, Ralph Grishman, Alessandro Lenci, Catherine MacLeod, Martha Palmer, Gregor Thurmair, Marta Villegas, Antonio Zampolli) “From Resources to Applications. Designing the Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry”, LREC2002, Las Palmas.

2002: “Then and Now: Competence and Performance in 35 Years of Lexicography”. In Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2002, (eds.) Braasch, A. and C. Povlsen. Copenhagen: Center for Sprogteknologi. 1-28.

2003: (with Michael Rundell & Hiroaki Sato) “The contribution of FrameNet to practical lexicography”, in International Journal of Lexicography, guest editor

2003: (with Charles Fillmore & Christopher Johnson) “Lexicographic relevance: selecting information from corpus evidence”, in International Journal of Lexicography, guest editor Thierry Fontenelle, Oxford, OUP: 16:3 251-280

2004: Pierrette Bouillon, “Relevance in dictionary-making”, in Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Lexicography, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, May 2002; also in Text-based Studies: Lexicography, Terminology, Translation. In Honour of Ingrid Meyer (Ed.) Lynne Bowker; Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press, 2006.

2006: (with Valerie Grundy) “Lexicographic profiling: An aid to consistency in dictionary entry design”. In Proceedings of the Twelfth EURALEX International Congress, EURALEX 2006, Alessandria Italy: Edizioni dell’Orso, 1097-1107.

2007: “Me Lexicographer, You Translators: or Context-free (vs. context-sensitive) translation and what it involves”, in Proceedings of 4th International Maastricht-Lodz Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Maastricht, Netherlands: May 2005.

Forthcoming:

(with Michael Rundell) “Lexicography Training: An Overview” to appear in Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography: Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments (eds.) R. H. Gouws, U. Heid, W. Schweickard & H.E. Wiegand (forthcoming from Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin).

(with Michael Rundell) “Criteria for the design of corpora for lexicography 1: monolingual dictionaries” to appear in Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography: Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments (eds.) R. H. Gouws, U. Heid, W. Schweickard & H.E. Wiegand (forthcoming from Mouton De Gruyter, Berlin).