CompLexico /kəmˈplekˌsɪkɒ/ is a research group within the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHSS) at the Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University, and is formalised on 16 April 2024 by the Rector of Udayana University (Decree no. 594/UN14/HK/2024). In CIRHSS, CompLexico subsumes two research strands: the Indonesian Languages, Documentation and Learning and Digital Humanities.
CompLexico is initiated and led by Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg. It aims at both pedagogical and research-related goals. From the pedagogical side, the pre-cursor of CompLexico is Gede's undergraduate teaching of the English Lexicology and Lexicography course, and his involvment as the convener of the Corpus Linguistics course in the Linguistics Doctoral program, both in the Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University. From the research side, CompLexico grew from (i) Gede's interests in cognitive lexical semantics, usage-based cognitive linguistics, quantitative corpus linguistics, and (ii) his postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford to build digital lexical resources for Enggano, a threatened Austronesian language spoken in the Enggano island, Bengkulu, Indonesia (PI: Prof. Mary Dalrymple; co-PI: Prof. I Wayan Arka; funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC; AH/W007290/1] cf. the Enggano webpage).
The main inspiration to create a circular logo comes from the Lexibank project1. The logo of CompLexico combines two Heptapod logograms from the Arrival movie. The outer logogram/circle in the logo means 'Humanity' (original image) in the Heptapod language. Meanwhile, the inner logogram means 'Solve on you now' (original image). Each of these logograms is provided with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (cf. here) inside this directory under this GitHub repository. The original black colour of the outer logogram is modified and filled with an image of computer code shared by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. The colour of the inner logogram is also replaced with another computer code image shared by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash. As a whole, the logo symbolises CompLexico’s focus on the application of computational and digital tools to investigate, analyse, and hopefully ”solve” (some of the) issues in the field of humanities, particularly lexicology and lexicography. The CompLexico logo is conceptualised, designed, and created by Gede Primahadi W. Rajeg using GIMP and is accessible via figshare.
I Wayan Arka; Ketut Artawa; I Made Rajeg; Ni Made Ayu Widiastuti; Putu Weddha Savitri; Cokorda Rai Adi Pramartha
Karlina Denistia (Universitas Sebelas Maret); Prihantoro (Universitas Diponegoro); I Putu Permana Mahardika (Universitas Gadjah Mada); Intan Pradita (Universitas Islam Indonesia); Devi Ambarwati Puspitasari (BRIN); Bayu Permana Sukma (BRIN); Saefu Zaman (BRIN); Prima Hariyanto (BRIN); Yenny Karlina (BRIN); Mukhamdanah (BRIN); Atin Fitriana (Universitas Indonesia).
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The Lexibank web-application is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. ↩
