INFOLEX

The InfoLex group was created in 1994 with the foundation of the University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA). It was recognised as a research group within UPF in 2004 and has been recognised as a consolidated group by the Catalan Government between 2005 and 2021 (2005 SGR 00245, 2009 SGR 1138, 2014 SGR 1071, 2017 SGR 1366), with M. Paz Battaner (2004-2008), Janet DeCesaris (2009-2011) and Sergi Torner (as of 2012) as PIs. In 2022 it was recognised as part of the consolidated group TraDiLex (2021 SGR 952), while remaining a research group recognised within UPF.

The name of the group tells about the two axes that compose it: Info from information and informatization together with lex from lexis and lexicography. The interest of our group is the study of lexis as the object of dictionaries, both monolingual and bilingual, and of lexical information representation in dictionaries. Some of the research lines explored by InfoLex members include monolingual dictionary making for learners, semantics, lexical combinatorics, and neology. Two further lines have been added to the group's projects recently, namely research on translation adopting corpus-based methodologies and research on accessibility. InfoLex is part of the Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA), a specific research centre at UPF.