Fran is the largest Slovenian and Slavic dictionary portal and one of the largest of this kind in the world. Under the leadership of the programme group leader it is jointly created by the members of the programme group. In the year 2016 Slovenian Research Agency ranked it among the greatest achievements in the field of humanities, at the same time its effect was well-received in the media, too (e.g. the nomination of the portal’s editor for the name of the year 2016 by the national broadcast Val 202). The portal Fran combines dictionaries, language resources for Slovenian and portals that have been created or are still being created at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts as well as dictionaries that have been converted into digital form by the Institute. Fran also enables to search through other selected Slovenian language corpora. The aim of the portal is to enable access to dictionary information to the widest possible range of users, therefore it allows simple as well as very complex queries. It contains 31 dictionaries, 1 linguistic atlas, 2 language counselling sites, 591,619 dictionary entries. The number of queries: 14,635,541, of which a quarter comes from outside of Slovenia. During the period covered by the report, Fran has also become available in English. Apart from a series of retro-digitised dictionaries, three completely new freely available online dictionaries have been published on the portal Fran in the last two years. They are intended exclusively for online environment and are designed on the basis of the state-of-the-art language technologies: the Dictionary of Orthographical Difficulties; the Growing Dictionary of the Slovenian Language & . The Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language 3. The portal Fran also hosts language counselling and terminological counselling sites which allow researchers to have direct contact with users. Project group members participate in all the above-listed activities. The rest of the dictionaries published on the portal have also been published in print format; all of them are high-quality dictionaries.
F.16 Improvements to an existing information system/databases
COBISS.SI-ID: 275720448About 400 answers to questions by various types of public (scholarly and non-scholarly alike) are provided yearly. The counseling also serves as a kind of depot in which language norm related questions sent by users of modern Slovene are being stored, which gives a platform on which to form new ortography rules.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
The monograph provides an overview of the more prominent dictionary typologies, and an overview of general monolingual Slavic language dictionaries created from 1945 untill the present. The analysis presents how dictionary elements of selected dictionaries are treated at the macrostructural and microstructural level, and suggestions for further lexicographical practice are given.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 284286464The 3rd International Slovenian Dialectological Conference (SDC 3) was held in 11–12 February 2016 at Fran Ramovš Institute of Slovene Language in Ljubljana (the president of organizing and programme committee was J. Škofic). This dialectological conference aimed to mark the publication of the second volume of the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas (SLA 2.1 Atlas and SLA 2.2 Commentaries) and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Slovene dialectologist, our late mentor and professor Tine Logar and the 80th birthday of Slovene dialectologist, Professor Emeritus Zinka Zorko. The Slovenian dialectological conference presented a new opportunity for the further work of Phonetic Commission (founded in 2012), as well. 40 contributors from 6 different ountries (Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Germany) presented their papers at the conference.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 21934600The exhibition in the National and University Library has been the greatest exhibition of grammar books and dictionaries ever, since the very beginning up to now. Beside recent works more precious manuscript and book editions were on show, too. The first part of the exhibition has brought a historical review of Slovenian grammar book and dictionary writing from its beginnings in Middle Ages up to the latest works in the field. The second part, however, has presented the current situation in the field of grammar books and dictionaries – their book as well as e- and internet versions – in detail. Individual sources were on show in their e-versions, too. The exhibition has now been on tour around Europe for a year and a half. Among other goals, the exhibition meant direct information to the audience about the activities of our programme group and popularization of our work.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
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