Nina Ledinek (born 27 September 1980) is a researcher in the Department of Lexicology. Her research focuses on contemporary lexicography and lexicology, terminology, and corpus linguistics. She is involved in the development of the 3rd edition of the Dictionary of the Slovenian Standard Language (eSSKJ; 2016–) and The School Dictionary of the Slovenian Language. She also answers questions on the Language Advisory Service site. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Fran, Franček, and Franja dictionary portals.

Research Areas

• lexicography
• lexicology
• terminology
• corpus linguistics
• corpus annotation

Education, Academic and Scientific Titles

• 2024–: assistant professor of the Slovenian Language, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
• 2024–: senior research associate, ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language
• 2014–: Research Fellow, ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language
• 2010: PhD: Slovenska skladnja v skladenjsko označenih korpusih slovenščine (Slovenian syntax and syntactically annotated corpora of the Slovenian Language), Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2007–2010: Teaching assistant, School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
• 2005: BA degree in Slovenian Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 1999: exit examination, Gimnazija Velenje, Velenje
• 1999: exit examination, Music School Fran Korun Koželjski, Velenje

Employments, Leadership Positions and Competences

Employments:

• 2019–2020: temporary employment, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2008: temporary employment, School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
• 2007–: ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language

Leadership Positions:

• 2024–: deputy head of the Department of Lexicology
• 2024–2025: head of the project Share the dictionaries: Fran and Franček dictionary portals
• 2024–: deputy head of the program and organizing committee of the international scientific symposium and events on International Dictionary Day
• 2023–2025: co-coordinator of the project Second comprehensive language policy survey on the needs of language users in Slovenia and users of Slovenian in neighbouring countries and worldwide
• 2023: head of the project eSSKJ and the corpus – on the way to state-of-the-art language data
• 2017–2021: coordinator of linguists in the project Franček Web Portal, Language Counselling for Teachers of the Slovenian Language and Primary School Dictionary of the Slovenian Language (funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia)
• 2016–2017: coordinator of language description and language infrastructure group of the target research project Language Policy of the Republic of Slovenia and the Needs of Users
• 2014–: representative of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts at the CLARIN.si research infrastructure
• 2012–2020: head of the Department of Lexicology of the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language

Supervision:

• 2019–2023: PhD supervision: Dejan Gabrovšek

Work in Editorial Boards and Expert Commissions

• 2024–: member of the editorial board of the Franja dictionary portal
• 2021–: member of the editorial board of the Franček dictionary portal
• 2019–: member of the program and organizing committee of the international scientific symposium and events on International Dictionary Day
• 2019–: member of the PhD study monitoring commission, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2014–: member of the editorial board of eSSKJ
• 2014–: member of the editorial board of the Fran dictionary portal

Outstanding Achievements, Awards and Grants

• 2012–: co-author and co-editor of general monolingual dictionaries of the Slovenian language (SNB, SSKJ2, eSSKJ)
• 2007: co-author of the JOS corpus annotation system
• 2006: co-author of the first syntactically annotated corpus of the Slovenian language Slovene Dependency Treebank