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Irene Renau Araque

Spanish, Catalan, English

Spain

Irene Renau earned a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universitat Jaume I (Castelló) in 2001. Subsequently, in 2012, she received her doctorate from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) with the dissertation “Gramática y diccionario: Las construcciones con se en las entradas verbales del diccionario de español como lengua extranjera ,” supervised by Paz Battaner. Her intersectional academic background combines traditional philology and lexicography with computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. Since 2009, she has held various teaching positions at universities such as Ramon Llull, Pompeu Fabra, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV) in Chile, where she has worked since 2014 at the Institute of Literature and Language Sciences, serving as an associate professor since 2018. In the field of research, she specialized in the use of large text databases to extract lexical information. She collaborated for years at the Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA) of Pompeu Fabra University until her move to Chile. There, she led several projects funded by the FONDECYT fund on the development of autonomous tools for detecting changes in word meanings; in addition, she directs the corpus linguistics research group and collaborates with the GRIAL group. One of his most notable works is the adaptation of the CPA (Corpus Pattern Analysis) method to Spanish, which allows for mapping the meanings of words based on usage patterns in large volumes of text. He has also conducted fundamental studies on neology, analyzing how new words are born, their entry into the dictionary, and how they vary between Spanish from Spain and from America. Currently, she focuses much of her work on improving the way information is presented in electronic dictionaries using the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs method adapted for Spanish, which consists of analyzing real usage patterns to achieve more precise definitions.

Renau, I. & Nazar, R. (2023): Extracción automática de terminología: una aproximación basada en corpus para el español, Lexicographica, Tübingen, Niemeyer. Renau, I. (2022): La metodología Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA) aplicada al español: avances y resultados, Ibérica, Barcelona, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Renau, I. & Battaner, P. (2020): Lexicografía aplicada a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, en Diccionarios y enseñanza de lenguas, Madrid, Arco Libros. Renau, I. (2019): El uso de corpus en la formación de lexicógrafos, EMLex Conference Proceedings, Mannheim, European Master in Lexicography. Renau, I. & Nazar, R. (2018): Stepwise steps to a semi-automatic lexicography, en Hanks, P. & Kosem, I. (eds.): Hanksian Lexicography: On the Art and Science of Dictionaries, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Renau, I. & Battaner, P. (2013): Las unidades léxicas en los diccionarios de aprendizaje, Revista de Lexicografía, Barcelona, Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Renau, I. (2012): Estructura argumental y diccionario (Tesis doctoral), Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Renau, I. & DeCesaris, J. (2010): The treatment of neologisms in Spanish dictionaries, International Journal of Lexicography, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

PhD thesis from Irene Renau: Gramática y diccionario: Las construcciones con se en las entradas verbales del diccionario de español como lengua extranjera (PDF en TDX - Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa). https://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/97047/tira.pdf

La Tercera. (2020). ¿Covid, Covid o COVID? Investigadora explica ortografía adecuada para el extranjerismo más usado en 2020. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/covid-covid-o-covid-investigadora-explica-ortografia-adecuada-para-el-extranjerismo-mas-usado-en-2020/2B3T4IRNDRDPTAO352H4J3ANG4/ PUCV. (n.d.). Profesora del ILCL gana proyecto internacional que une a investigadores. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://www.pucv.cl/uuaa/filed/noticias/profesora-del-ilcl-gana-proyecto-internacional-que-une-a-investigadores PUCV. (n.d.). Académicos PUCV se adjudican proyectos de investigación Fondecyt Regular. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://www.pucv.cl/pucv/academicos-pucv-se-adjudican-proyectos-de-investigacion-fondecyt-regular Renau, I. and Battaner, P. (2014). El diccionario, ayer y hoy. [Video]. YouTube. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTxZpOUoNs0

Irene Renau plays an important role thanks to her dual experience in Barcelona and Chile, as well as her role as a teacher (or member) of the Pan-Hispanic Network of Language Academies and international corpus linguistics associations. Her research, which links linguistics with technology, represents significant advances in the methodological development of lexicography.

Google Scholar. (n.d.). Irene Renau: Publications and impact. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P9DAbZoAAAAJ&hl=es Institut de Lingüística Aplicada. (n.d.). Associated Researchers: Irene Renau. UPF. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://www.upf.edu/web/iula ORCID. (n.d.). Irene Renau Araque (0000-0002-3431-7001). Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0516-7902 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. (n.d.). Faculty: Irene Renau Araque. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://www.pucv.cl/pucv/site/edic/base/port/inicio.html Renau, I. (n.d.). Professional profile and research. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://irenerenau.com/ TDX - Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa. (2012). Estructura argumental y diccionario (PhD Thesis). Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/84111 Photo: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. (2023). CLT Seminar with Irene Renau. [Image]. Retrieved on January 26, 2026 from https://filcat.uab.cat/seminari-del-clt-amb-irene-renau/

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