Tinatin Margalitadze – Professor of Lexicography at School of Arts and Sciences of Ilia State University;

Research director of the Centre for Lexicography and Language Technologies;
Member of European Association for lexicography (EURALEX) since 1997;
Member of the Executive Board of EURALEX from 2012 till 2018;
Organizer and chair of XVII EURALEX International Congress (Tbilisi, 2016);
Member of African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX) since 2017;
Associate member of the Consortium “European Master in Lexicography” (EMLEX) since 2017.

Since 1985 one of the compilers, editors, then editor in chief and publisher of Comprehensive English-Georgian Dictionary (14 published volumes; online version – www.dict.ge, comprising 110 000 entries). One of the compilers and editor of English-Georgian learner’s Dictionary (https://learners.dict.ge). Editor of English-Georgian Military Online Dictionary (10 000 entries http://mil.dict.ge), English-Georgian Biology Online Dictionary (23 000 entries  http://bio.dict.ge) and English-Russian-Georgian Technical Online Dictionary (18 000 entries http://techdict.ge).

Tinatin Margalitadze studied linguistics and English at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia. She did her postgraduate studies at the Chair of English Philology of TSU and in 1983 defended her candidate’s thesis (PhD) “Structural and Semantic Characterization of Adjectives in Modern English”. In 1997 as a visiting scholar she spent one term at the Department of Linguistics, Cambridge University, Great Britain.

She is one of the initiators and organizers of Batumi International Symposia in Lexicography (the first symposium was held in May 2010, the second – in May, 2012).

Her research interests include: bilingual lexicography (general and specialized); the problem of equivalence in non-related and related languages; universal models of polysemous words; history of Georgian lexicography; parallel corpora; corpus-driven lexicography; machine translation.

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