FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

τσάπινγκ [tsápiŋg]: the act of removing weeds with a hoe [hoe (τσάπα [tsápa])+ing]

Anna Vacalopoulou has an MA in Lexicography (Exeter University). She has designed and written or co-written more than twenty dictionaries and other reference works, including paper, electronic, monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, and multimodal (sign language) works. She coordinated the translation (into 19 languages) of the European Commission’s Education & Culture website. She has been working at ILSP since 1998 participating in several national and European projects. She was project leader for ILSP in the triplet Lingu@net Europa PLUS, Lingu@network, Lingu@net World Wide leading to the development and enhancement of the Lingu@net virtual language resource centre that was awarded the MERLOT award for being ‘exemplary on-line learning material for all disciplines’ and the European Commission’s Gold prize in the “European Lifelong Learning Awards for quality in mobility”. She has been contributing to the design, implementation, and update of HNC, the first online language corpus of Modern Greek. She co-authored Lexicography for All, the first handbook of Lexicography written in Greek. She is a member of the management committee of COST Action CA22126 European Network on Lexical Innovation and leader of Task 1.7 Documentation & Guidelines. Link: https://www.ilsp.gr/en/members/vacalopoulou-anna-2/