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The future of lexicography: Extrapolating from five decades of trends

Presentation by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver on 4 March 2023, at the Research Institute of Business Administration, School of Commerce, Waseda University, Tokyo. This presentation is dedicated to the memory of Sue Atkins, the Grande Dame of lexicography, who passed away in 2021. In a prologue we argue that she must be seen on a par with other visionaries and their visions, such as Paul Dirac in mathematics or Ludwig van Beethoven in music. We proceed to review the last half century, through the eyes of Sue Atkins. In the process, the insights of other luminaries come into the picture, including those of Patrick Hanks, Michael Rundell, Adam Kilgarriff, John Sinclair, and Charles Fillmore. This material is used as a background to start thinking out of the box in terms of the future of dictionaries. In all, about 50 oppositions are presented, in which the past is contrasted with the future, divided into five subsections: (1) the dictionary-making process, (2) supporting tools and concepts, (3) the appearance of the dictionary, (4) facts about the dictionary, and (5) the image of the dictionary. Moving from the future of dictionaries to the future of lexicographers, the argument is made that we need to join forces with the Big Data companies, which, by its nature, brings us to America and thus Americans, including Gregory Grefenstette, Erin McKean, Laurence Urdang, Sidney Landau, and Edward Finegan. In an epilogue, the presentation’s methodology is defined as being ‘a fact-based extrapolation of the future’, and includes good advice from Steve Jobs. During final remarks following the Question & Answer section, a few more words are said about the future-future, being AI-augmented lexicography. [For OpenAI GPT / ChatGPT integration into the dictionary writing system TLex, see    • On how ChatGPT can take over all of the di...  ] 00:00 Introduction 00:29 Dedicated to Sue Atkins (23 January 1931 – 3 September 2021) 00:44 (1) Prologue: On visionaries and their visions 09:45 (2) The past: The last half century through the eyes of Sue Atkins 17:40 (3) The future of dictionaries: Thinking out of the box 19:58 (3.1) The dictionary-making process 22:32 (3.2) Supporting tools and concepts 25:06 (3.3) Appearance of the dictionary 32:08 (3.4) Facts about the dictionary 37:43 (3.5) Image of the dictionary 42:57 (4) The future of lexicographers: Joining forces with Big Data 52:11 (5) Epilogue: A fact-based extrapolation of the future 58:10 Wrap-up by the Chair 01:00:00 Q&A [Shigeru Yamada] User-friendliness in the future 01:05:13 Q&A [Annalisa Greco] "Thank you so much! Really interesting!" 01:05:28 Q&A [Kaoru Akasu] Learner's vs. native speaker dictionaries in the future 01:08:18 Q&A [Yukio Tono] Selection criteria in the future 01:15:36 Final remarks: The future-future (= AI lexicography) To refer to this presentation: de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice. 2023. The future of lexicography: Extrapolating from five decades of trends. Paper presented at the Research Institute of Business Administration, School of Commerce, Waseda University, Tokyo, 4 March 2023. A longer version of this talk was published as ‘The future of dictionaries’ in October 2024, being the final chapter in ‘The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary’: de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice. 2024. The future of dictionaries. In: Finegan, Edward & Michael Adams (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics): 651-667. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...