Mulleres na Lexicografía / Women in Lexicography

Beryl T. Sue Atkins (née Sinclair)

Inglés, francés, irlandés / English, French, Irish

GAL 1931 (Edimburgo, Escocia) - 2021 (Sussex, Inglaterra) Sue Atkins naceu en Edimburgo en 1931 e pasou boa parte da súa vida en Sussex (Inglaterra). É unha das lexicógrafas máis recoñecidas das últimas décadas. Cómpre salientar a súa contribución ao proxecto COBUILD, concebido orixinalmente polo seu irmán, J. Sinclair. ENG 1931 (Edinburgh, Scottland) - 2021 (Sussex, England) Sue Atkins was born in Edinburgh in 1931 and spent most of her life in Sussex (England). She is one of the most renowned lexicographers of the last decades. Her contribution to the COBUILD-project, originally conceived by her brother, J. Sinclair, is worth noting.

GAL Sue Atkins graduouse en Filoloxía Francesa na Universidade de Edimburgo en 1952 e impartiu docencia de lingua inglesa en Finlandia durante a década de 1950. Posteriormente, foi xefa de redacción do dicionario bilingüe inglés-francés “Collins-Robert” (1978) e participou na publicación do dicionario “Oxford-Hachette”. Foi pioneira na incorporación de corpora lingüísticos para a compilación de dicionarios e, nesa liña, débese destacar a súa contribución para a creación do “British National Corpus” (BNC). Sue Atkins participou como asesora nos proxectos “Hector” de lexicografía computacional entre 1991 a 1993 e tamén no proxecto DELIS (de dicionarios electrónicos) de 1993 e 1996. O proxecto Hector foi unha cooperación entre a compañía británica Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) e a Oxford University Press (OUP) e tiña por obxectivo sistematizar o uso de córpora para a compilación de entradas lexicográficas. O proxecto DELIS contaba con financiación europea e coa colaboración de diferentes universidades europeas (Alemania, Francia, Italia, Dinamarca, Países Baixos e Inglaterra). Sue Atkins traballou neste caso como asesora xunto con Charles Fillmore, cuxos traballos tamén se centraban na lingüística de frames. Durante a década de 1990, desempeñou o cargo de presidenta de EURALEX (Asociación Europea de Lexicografía). O traballo de Sue Atkins resultou fundamental na consolidación da práctica lexicográfica en Sudáfrica, onde impartiu varios cursos (Salex’97 e Afrilex-Salex’98) de formación lexicográfica dirixidos a profesionais da lingüística de linguas africanas. Con Michael Rundell e Adam Kilgarriff organizou varios obradoiros de lexicografía computacional (Lexicom) ao abeiro da compañía Lexicography Masterclass, que ofrecía asesoramento a institucións responsábeis da compilación de dicionarios. Colaborou na creación do dicionario “Foras na Gaeilge” inglés-irlandés (2004-2013). En cooperación con M. Rundell, publicou en 2008 a “Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography”, obra na que se promulga o uso de córpora tratados computacionalmente para a análise de datos lingüísticos e a posterior creación de dicionarios. ENG Sue Atkins graduated in French Philology from the University of Edinburgh in 1952 and taught English language in Finland during the 1950s. Subsequently, she was editor-in-chief of the “Collins-Robert” English-French bilingual dictionary (1978) and was involved in the publication of the “Oxford-Hachette” dictionary. She was a pioneer in the incorporation of linguistic corpora for the compilation of dictionaries and, in this respect, her contribution to the creation of the “British National Corpus” (BNC) is noteworthy. Sue Atkins was involved as a consultant in the “Hector” computer lexicography projects between 1991 and 1993 and also in the DELIS (electronic dictionary) project between 1993 and 1996. The Hector project was the result of a cooperation between the British company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Oxford University Press (OUP) and aimed to systematise the use of corpora in the compilation of lexicographical entries. The DELIS project was funded by the European Union, with the collaboration of several European universities (Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands and England). Sue Atkins worked here as a consultant together with Charles Fillmore, whose work focused on frame linguistics. During the 1990s, she was president of EURALEX (European Lexicography Association). Sue Atkins' work played a key role in the consolidation of lexicographic practice in South Africa, where she taught several courses (Salex'97 and Afrilex-Salex'98) in lexicographic training. She collaborated in the creation of the English-Irish dictionary “Foras na Gaeilge” (2004-2013). In cooperation with M. Rundell, she published the "Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography" in 2008, a work that promotes the use of computer-treated corpora for the analysis of linguistic data and the subsequent creation of dictionaries.

GAL Dicionarios / Dictionaries: Atkins, B. T. S.; A. Duval (eds). 1978. Robert & Collins English-French, French-English Dictionary, Paris: Le Robert/Glasgow: Collins. Corréard, M-H.; V. Grundy (eds). 1994. The Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English, English-French). Paris: Hachette/Oxford: Oxford University Press. focloir.ie - New English-Irish Dictionary (NEID). 2013. Foras na Gaeilge. Sinclair, J. (ed.). 1987. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary. London & Glasgow: Collins. (COBUILD1) Outras publicacións relevantes / Other important publications:: Atkins, B. T. S. 1992/93. ‘Theoretical lexicography and its relation to dictionary-making.’ En Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 14: 4–43. Atkins, B. T. S. 1995. ‘Analyzing the verbs of seeing: a frame semantics approach to corpus lexicography’ En Gahl, S., C. Johnson; A. Dolbey (eds.), Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, 1994, BLS, University of California, Berkeley, Ca. Atkins, B. T. S.; M. Rundell. 2008. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. Atkins, B.T.S., M. Rundell, A. Kilgarriff. 2010. ‘Database of Analysed Texts of English (DANTE): The NEID Database Project’. En Dykstra, A.; T. Schoonheim (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th EURALEX International Congress. Leeuwarden/Ljouwert, The Netherlands: Fryske Akademy, 549–556. Fillmore, C. J.; B. T. S. Atkins. 1992. Toward a frame-based lexicon: the semantics of RISK and its neighbors. En Lehrer, A.; E. F. Kittay (eds), Frames, Fields, and Contrasts: New Essays in Semantic and Lexical Organisation. Hillsdale N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum, 75–102. Fillmore, C. J.; B. T. S. Atkins. 2000. ‘Describing Polysemy: The Case of ‘Crawl’ En Ravin Y.; C. Leacock (eds.), Polysemy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 91–110.

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BTS Atkins (1931-2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZck6jUP-Hw Entrevistada por M. Rundell / Interviewed by M. Rundell

GAL Entre os premios e recoñecementos recibidos destacan o Premio de Doutoramento en Letras concedido pola Universidade de Brighton en 2000. Posteriormente, en 2002, EURALEX publica o Festschrift Lexicography and Natural Language Processing en honor á contribución de Atkins á lexicografía internacional. Tamén foi declarada membro honorario vitalício de EURALEX. Ademais, foi doutora honoris causa pola Universidade de Pretoria polas súas achegas á práctica lexicográfica a nivel mundial, particularmente polo papel que desempeñou na difusión dunha boa práctica lexicográfica en linguas africanas. ENG Among several prizes and awards, she received an Honorary DLitt from the University of Brighton in 2000. In 2002, EURALEX published the festschrift “Lexicography and Natural Language Processing” honouring Atkins' contribution to international lexicography. She was also declared an Honorary Life Member of EURALEX. In addition, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Pretoria for her contributions to lexicographical practice worldwide, particularly for the role she played in the dissemination of good lexicographical practice in African languages.

Foto/Photo: Rundell, M. et al (2022). Remembering Sue Atkins. International Journal of Lexicography, 35(1), 7. doi: 10.1093/ijl/ecab030 Bibliografía/Bibliography: Atkins, B. T. S.; A. Duval (eds). 1978. Robert & Collins English-French, French-English Dictionary, Paris: Le Robert/Glasgow: Collins. Atkins, B. T. S. 1992/93. ‘Theoretical lexicography and its relation to dictionary-making.’ En Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 14: 4–43. Atkins, B. T. S. 1995. ‘Analyzing the verbs of seeing: a frame semantics approach to corpus lexicography’ En Gahl, S., C. Johnson; A. Dolbey (eds.), Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, 1994, BLS, University of California, Berkeley, Ca. Atkins, B. T. S.; M. Rundell. 2008. The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. Atkins, B.T.S., M. Rundell, A. Kilgarriff. 2010. ‘Database of Analysed Texts of English (DANTE): The NEID Database Project’. En Dykstra, A.; T. Schoonheim (eds.), Proceedings of the 14th EURALEX International Congress. Leeuwarden/Ljouwert, The Netherlands: Fryske Akademy, 549–556. Moon, R. (2021). Sue Atkins, Lexicographer and Linguist (1931-2021). RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista Di Lingue E Letterature Straniere E Culture Moderne, 8(16), 115-116. https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/6246 Rundell, M. et al (2022). Remembering Sue Atkins. International Journal of Lexicography, 35(1), 1–19. doi: 10.1093/ijl/ecab030 Prinsloo, D. (2021). Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins: Lexicographer from A to Z. Lexikos, 31(1), 511-514. https://doi.org/10.5788/31-1-1664

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