K DICTIONARIES
K DICTIONARIES is a global leader in creating cross-lingual lexical data. The company was established in 1993, based in Tel Aviv and active all over the world.
Our roots lie in pioneering the development of innovative bilingual learner’s dictionaries for English as a foreign language, which have grown into extending this expertise in pedagogical lexicography to many more languages.
At the turn of the century we became involved in multilingual dictionaries, leading us to reformat our data for interoperability with language technology applications. We have since been at the forefront of systematic lexicon mapping, and more recently were among the first to adapt to Linked Data as part of our technology-driven-content methodologies and goals.
K DICTIONARIES invests substantially in research & development as well as in mutual exchange with educational and professional communities. Over the years, we had published a number of scholarly collections of conference proceedings, and our annual publication – Lexicala Review – is well acclaimed worldwide.
TEAM
The leading team of K DICTIONARIES coordinates the company’s operations including research, development, marketing and collaboration with business, academic and other professional associates, as well as with numerous editors all over the world.
Data Manager
EDITORS
Over the years, we have engaged many hundreds of lexicographers, translators, editors and other linguistic experts in numerous editorial tasks. These professionals may work on their own or as part of a larger group on projects that last anywhere from a few weeks to several years. The work is done from anywhere in the world, while maintaining close contact with the K DICTIONARIES team.
Dina M. Abdou | English – Arabic
Nobuyoshi Adegawa | Russian – Japanese
Yu Akao | Italian – Japanese
Colette Alouch | French, Hebrew – French
Lina Maria Alvarenga | Portuguese (Brazil)
Ieda Maria Alves | Portuguese (Brazil)
Melissa Alves Baffi Bonvino | English – Portuguese (Brazil)
Helle Andersen | Danish, French / Danish
Amanda Anthony | Polish – English
Ioulia Antypa | Greek, French – Greek
Rika Aoki | Japanese
Kongwett Aonlamoon | Thai
Agnieszka Apenuvor | English – Polish
Nikolia Apostolopoulou | French – Greek
Cláudio Aquati | Latin
Eisam Asaqli | Arabic
Rana Aslam | English – Urdu
Bernardo Astigueta | Japanese – Spanish
Monika Åström | French – Swedish
Lorna Ayoun-Berdugo | French – Hebrew
Elena Baibikov | Russian – Japanese
Martyn Back | French – English
Antonius Beerden | French / Dutch
Mihaly Benedek | English / Hungarian
Orna Ben Nathan | Hebrew
Claus Bentsen | German – Danish
Elisenda Bernal Gallén | Spanish
Sam Berner | Arabic – English
Susanna Berthelsen | Spanish – Swedish
Susanne Billes | German
Geert Bilsen | Dutch
Vinicius Bogaz Azzi | English – Portuguese (Brazil)
Monika Böhme-Garnweidner | German
Mikael Boman | Spanish – Swedish
Emilie Bourgeois | French
Isabelle Budin Ljøsne | Norwegian – French
Sabine Burlot | Norwegian – French
Hanne Bussels | Dutch
Castrese Cacciapuoti | Italian – Japanese
Luiz Carlos Cagliari | Portuguese (Brazil)
Ekin Can Göksoy | Turkish
Tatiana Helena Carvalho Rios | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Maria Cecilia Casini | Portuguese (Brazil) –Italian
Carlos Sebastián Cerón | Spanish
Yong-Suk Choi | English – Korean
Wiraya Chom-gnarm | Thai
Clémentine Choubrac | Norwegian – French
Céline Citthy | Chinese (Simplified) – French
Madeleine Cohen | English – Swedish
Sabine Corso | German
Laure Youn-Sill Couralet | Korean
Stéphane Couralet | Korean
Wilfried Dabekaussen | Dutch
Michael Davies | Danish – English
Ana Margarida de Almeida Borges | Portuguese (Portugal)
Carolina de Almeida Martins | English – Portuguese (Brazil)
Mariana Silva de Campos Almeida | German – Portuguese (Brazil)
Ligia de Grandi | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Elma De Jong | German – Dutch
Patricia Di Baja de Teijeiro | Spanish
Vincent Docherty | German – English
Susanne Dyka | German, English / German
Anne Dyskstra | English / Frisian
Kseniya Egorova | Russian, English / Russian
Inna Emmel | German – Portuguese (Brazil)
Elena Estremera Paños | Spanish
Toshikazu Ezure | Japanese, English – Japanese
Ivana Fasano | Spanish
Ruth E. Vatvedt Fjeld | Norwegian
Per Einar Fosser | German – Norwegian
Holger Freese | German
Mina Freidkin | Hebrew
Plinio Freire Gomes | Italian – Portuguese (Brazil)
Yaël Freund | French, Hebrew – French
Tomoyo Fukuda | Russian – Japanese
Shungo Fujihira | Japanese
Marie-Pierre Gachet | Portuguese (Portugal) – French
Bénédicte Gaillard | French
Helen Galloway | German – English
Ana Marina García | Spanish
Angélica Karim Garcia Simão | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Milko Alejandro García Torres | Portuguese (Brazil) – Spanish
Milena Gartler | Arabic – German
Frédéric Girod | Swedish – French
Keisuke Gozawa | Spanish – Japanese
Chantal Guglielmi | Latin – French
Mehmet Gürlek | Turkish
Dawid Gut | Polish, Norwegian / Polish
Marion Hahn | German
Erla Hallsteindóttir | German
Shigeru Hashimoto | Korean – Japanese
Amina Hassan | English – Arabic
Andrew Hastings | Spanish – English
Klara Hauserová | Czech
Fumitoshi Hayakawa | French / Japanese
Helen Hedman Walderhaug | English – Swedish
Werner Heidermann | Portuguese (Brazil) – German
Jaakko Heikkilä | English – Finnish
Nizar Hellou | French – Arabic
Birgit Hermann | Dutch – German
Yvette Hiemstra | French – Dutch
Alexander Hohler | Danish – German
Martina Holde Sand | Danish – English
Nicoline Hortzitz | German
Alicja Huflejt-Hamon | French – Polish
Jun Ichikawa | English – Japanese
Yuka Ikeda | Russian – Japanese
Jiraporn Intrasai | Thai
Jorge Simón Izquierdo Diaz | Danish / Spanish
Sarasvati Jacobsen | Norwegian
Eglantine Jastrabsky | Chinese (Simplified) – French
Marjorie Jean | Latin – French
Keunju Jeong | Japanese – Korean
Cecilia Johansson | Swedish, French – Swedish
Nanna N.K.D. Jørgensen | Polish – Norwegian
Christiane Jost | English – Portuguese (Brazil)
Heidy Christine Jost | English – Portuguese (Brazil)
Yoshinori Kaisaki | German – Japanese
Ryoko Kanazawa | English – Japanese
Nazih Kassis | Arabic, English – Arabic
Laura Karpinska | Latvian
Julie Kastberg Rasmussen | Spanish – Danish
Koji Kawa | Chinese (Simplified) – Japanese
Thuraia Khalil Suliman | English – Arabic
Louay Khateeb | French / Arabic
Jeries Naim Khoury | Arabic
Satoru Kishi | Japanese
Bettina Koepke | English – Portuguese (Brazil)
Sven Koerber-Abe | Japanese – German
Yoko Koerber-Abe | Japanese – German
J.G. Kruijt | Dutch
Deny A. Kwary | English / Indonesian
Marissa V. Klug | Danish – English
Kazuhiro Kobayashi | Spanish – Japanese
Maria Carmen Lagos Andersen | Norwegian – Spanish
Nathalie Lanckriet | French
Margit Langemets | English / Estonian
Valérie Lecoeur | French
Linda Lesieur | Swedish – French
Marine Lesprit | French
Jéssica Lima Cochete | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Chia Chen Liu | Chinese (Traditional)
Delphine Livet | French
Sergio Mario López | Spanish
Marie Lund | German – Danish
Clem Luxford | Danish – English
Janique Mano Knutsen | Norwegian – French
Aleksandra Marciniak | French – Polish
Mariam Masalha | Arabic
Tomoko Masuda | Russian – Japanese
Michael McCain | Arabic – English
Florence Mermet Ogawa | Japanese – French
Asuka Mitsui | Russian – Japanese
Christine Möhrs | German
Melissa Monnet | Swedish – German
Miguel Eduardo Montoro | Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil) – Spanish
Emilienne Morruzzi | French
Caroline Moulart-Fremaux | French
Lúcia Liba Mucznik | Portuguese (Portugal), French – Portuguese (Portugal)
Wiyada Muenchang | Thai
G.J. Mulder | Spanish / Dutch
William Earl Murphy | Italian – English
Jumana Mussa | English – Arabic
Odair Luiz Nadin da Silva | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Midori Nakahara | Japanese – English
Sayaka Nakajima | Japanese – Spanish
Toshimitsu Naoko | German – Japanese
Usui Naoya | Japanese
Lo Nathamundi | Swedish – English
Rogelio Nazar | Spanish
Berit Ness Johnsen | Norwegian – Italian
Violaine Nicaud | French
Arnat Nilkaow | Thai
Carina P.B. Nilstun | Norwegian
Érika Nogueira de Andrade Stupiello | English – Portuguese (Brazil)
Yuji Obataya | French / Japanese
Claire Oren | Arabic – French
Vivian Orsi | Portuguese (Brazil) – Italian
Misa Otsuka | Japanese
María Verónica Elizondo Oviedo | Spanish
Cendrine Pagnier | Chinese (Simplified) – French
Bodil Pallesen | Spanish – Danish
Jirayu Paopuncharoen | Thai
Maria Cristina Parreira da Silva | French – Portuguese (Brazil)
Patama Patpong | Thai
Barak Paz | Hebrew
Enid Pearsons | English
Ana Dimitrova Petkova | German – Bulgarian
Timothy Paul Phillips | Portuguese (Brazil) – English
Cerise Phiv | Chinese (Simplified) – French
Luciana Pissolato de Oliveira | Portuguese (Brazil)
Catherine Poujol | Russian – French
Nora Pröfrock | Norwegian – German
Zdenek Ptacek | Danish – English
Glennis Pye | English
Maria Federica Raed | Spanish
Jens Erik Rasmussen | Danish / English
Marie-Saskia Raynal | Japanese – French
Irene Renau Araque | Spanish
Ana Maria Ribeiro de Jesus | Portuguese (Brazil)
Cathy Riqueur | English – French
Eufrocina Rojas Arregocés | Spanish
Pnina Rubesh | Czech
José Javier Ruiz de Olano Ansorena | Swedish – Spanish
Wanalee Rungruangsarn | Thai
Rattana Saengchan | Thai
Ryo Sakuma | Japanese, English – Japanese
Tamaki Sakurada-Kaufmann | German – Japanese
Daranee Salamtae | Thai
Jack Salom | Turkish, French / Turkish
Gabriel Sanches Teixeira | German – Portuguese (Brazil)
Rudi Sanders | German – Dutch
Eugenía Sanna | Spanish
Vanessa Santos | French – Portuguese (Portugal)
Rita Sapozhnikov | Russian, French – Russian
Vanja Savić | English – Serbian
Luis Augusto Schmidt Totti | Latin
Bent Schalimtzek | English – Danish
Rik Schutz | Dutch
Michael K. Scott | Arabic – English
Claudia Serretti | Portuguese (Brazil) – English
Yoko Shibue | Italian – Japanese
Ghanshyam Sharma | Hindi
Kato Shingo | Spanish – Japanese
Torill Simonsen | French – Norwegian
Christian Skaug | Norwegian, Italian – Norwegian
John F. Smedstad | Norwegian – English
Dianne Solomon | English
Jane Solomon | English
Serhat Sözerli | German / Turkish
Janneke Spoelstra | English / Frisian
Martin Paul Stark | English
Karen Stern | English
Yaacov Stern | Hebrew
Talita Storti Garcia | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Marcela Straková | English – Czech
Gabriella Strandberg | German – Swedish
Ittichai Suwanidcharoen | Thai
Charoonrat Suwanpusit | Thai
Heather Sweetser | Arabic – English
Arai Takuma | English – Japanese
Natthawut Tarthong | Thai
Sareeya Thaptan | Thai
Sergio Tiago da Silva | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Mai Tiits | English / Estonian
Saori Tominaga | Japanese
Edouard Trouillez | French
Hugo Tseng | English – Chinese (Traditional)
Katerina Turevich | Dutch – English
Satoru Uchida | Japanese
Udo Uibo | English / Estonian
Naoya Usui | Japanese
Cor Stephan van Eijden | Spanish – Dutch
Maria Helena Vaz Horvilleur | Portuguese (Brazil) – French
Marie Viry-Obataya | Japanese – French
Jirapa Vitayapirak | Thai
Bruno Vituzzo Matheus | Spanish – Portuguese (Brazil)
Alenka Vrbinc | English – Slovene
Marjeta Vrbinc | English – Slovene
Maurice Wagner | Danish / French
Yuko Wakabayashi | Russian – Japanese
Yuan Yuan Wang | French – Chinese (Simplified)
Susanne Wehberg-Bonhomme | French – German
Suzanne Maria Marcelle Wolters | Spanish / Dutch
Monique C.M. Woltring | Dutch
Emmanuelle Worbs | German
Claudia Maria Xatara | French – Portuguese (Brazil)
Jin Xiong | Japanese – Chinese (Simplified)
Shigeru Yamada | English – Japanese
Leo Yoffe | Japanese – English
Deni Yuzo Kasama | Italian – Portuguese (Brazil)
Claudia Zavaglia | Italian – Portuguese (Brazil)
Valeria Zotti | Italian
COLLABORATION
K DICTIONARIES operates in conjunction with a wide range of business partners as well as with universities, research institutes and prefessional associations. Combining the expertise of each partner with ours helps to enrich our know-how and to create better products, services and solutions for the end users.
We first worked with local publishers worldwide on semi-bilingual English learner’s dictionaries in print, evolving to technology partners for electronic, multilingual and learner’s dictionaries for many more languages, then to cross-lingual lexical resources for natural language processing.
We also cooperate on academic internship programs, sponsor organizations and events, give talks and workshops, and take part in bilateral, European and global frameworks for various research, development and innovation projects.
SHARED INITIATIVES
H2020 Research & Innovation Action 731015
ELEXIS – European Lexicographic Infrastructure
17-partner consortium led by Institut “Jožef Stefan”, Ljubljana
2018-2022
https://elex.is/
H2020 Innovation Action 780602
LYNX – Building the Legal Knowledge Graph for Smart Compliance Services in Multilingual Europe
10-partner consortium led by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2017-2020
http://lynx-project.eu/
Austria-Israel bilateral EUREKA research & development
LDL4HELTA – Linked Data Lexicography for High-End Language Technology Applications with Semantic Web Company, Vienna
2015-2017
https://ldl4.com/
PARTNERS & PROJECTS
We cooperate with a wide range of partners from the technology, knowledge, education and publishing sectors, take part in innovative research & development projects, participate in and sponsor international events, associations and funds, and offer internships and practical training to university students and independent scholars.
TESTIMONIALS
We build amazing relationships with our partners and customers. Here is what some of them say:
We have been working with Lexicala for more than 20 years acquiring and creating multilingual dictionary content for our market-leading digital dictionary services. Lexicala are a reliable, flexible and highly professional partner for all things lexical when creating successful language technology products and services.
Kaarina HYVÖNEN
Partner Account Executive, Kielikone Oy, Helsinki
The cooperation with Lexicala supports Semantic Web Company's business by integrating their high-quality data into our core product PoolParty Semantic Suite to generate more precise multilingual deep text analytics.
Martin KALTENBÖCK
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Semantic Web Company, Vienna
Naver has been collaborating with Lexicala on a unique project of developing new trilingual dictionaries, and we greatly appreciate their efforts in pursue of accuracy and quality.
KIM Jong-Hwan
Leader of Naver Dictionary Team, Seoul
In working for over two decades with Ilan Kernerman and K Dictionaries, I have found them to be leaders in developing innovative lexical data. And, Ilan is one of the most well-informed persons about lexical development globally, tirelessly and selflessly promoting lexicography around the world.
Charles M. LEVINE
Former vice-president and publisher of the Random House Reference Division, New York
At Ordbogen we strive to offer quality online dictionaries and translation tools putting the user at the center. Our choice to collaborate with K Dictionaries was initiated by the need for resources that are not in our portfolio, and their assistance with fulfilling our clients’ unique demands has been of great value to us.
Peter REVSBECK
CEO of Ordbogen A/S, Odense
We're pleased to have Lexicala on board as data sellers on TAUS Data Marketplace. With their extensive background in the publishing industry, they offer a unique type of language data on the marketplace that is sought-after and very well suited for MT and AI training.
Jaap VAN DER MEER
Director, TAUS, Amsterdam