Dr Gilles-Maurice de Schryver is a research professor of African linguistics at BantUGent (the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies), as well as a computational linguist at LT3 (the Language and Translation Technology Team), both at Ghent University, in Belgium. He is also an extraordinary professor in the Department of African Languages at the University of Pretoria, a job title he formerly held at the University of the Western Cape (2006-2012), both in South Africa.
He holds an MSc in microelectronic engineering (1995), as well as an MA (1999) and PhD (2005) in African languages and cultures. In 2002 he co-founded TshwaneDJe HLT to develop lexicographic software, and in 2006 he was a founding member of AfLaT, the African Language Technology group.
He is the author or co-author of close to 400 books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, mainly on Bantu corpus linguistics and lexicography in general. His publications also include award-winning dictionaries for Northern Sotho, Zulu and Xhosa, published with Oxford University Press, as well as various online dictionaries, amongst others the most popular one for Swahili.
He is a two-term past President of Afrilex (2009-2013), and a past President of Euralex (2018-2021). Earlier, he also served in other capacities on the executive boards of Afrilex (2001-2009), Euralex (2006-2014), Asialex (2007-2013) and Australex (2008-2013). Most recently, he has been co-facilitating the creation of Americalex-S (2021-2023), and currently he is the Chair of Globalex (2022-2026).

Projecten

Projecten als promotor

Projecten als co-promotor

Projecten als onderzoeker

Fine-tuning GPT models for lexicography (2024 - 2027)
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar (2018 - 2018)
KongoKing (2012 - 2016)

Publicaties

Belangrijkste publicaties

From user feedback on Chinese-English translation and dictionary tools, to DeepSeek as the ultimate translator and lexicographer(2025)
- Wanjing Han
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Oxford bilingual school dictionary: IsiXhosa and English(2014)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Mary Reynolds
Lexicographers' dreams in the electronic-dictionary age(2003)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Online Kiswahili (Swahili) – English Dictionary(2004)
- S Hillewaert
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Oxford bilingual school dictionary: Northern Sotho and English(2007)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Artificial Intelligence Meets e-Lexicography(2009)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
State-of-the-art software to support intelligent lexicography(2010)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
The concept of simultaneous feedback(2013)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: isiZulu and English / Isichazamazwi Sesikole Esinezilimi Ezimbili: IsiZulu NesiNgisi, Esishicilelwe abakwa-Oxford. Second Edition(2015)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
The Future of Dictionaries(2024)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Broken in Uganda : Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC)(2023)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
The future of metalexicography : reaching for the mesosphere(2023)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Large language models and AI in lexicography: 3-minute position statement(2023)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Generative AI and lexicography : the current state of the art using ChatGPT(2023)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Customising LLMs for lexicography(2024)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
The road towards fine-tuned LLMs for lexicography(2024)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Beknopt woordenboek Cilubà-Nederlands & Kalombodi-mfùndilu kàà Cilubà (Spellingsgids Cilubà)(1998)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Ngo Kabuta

Meest recente publicaties

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Onderwijs

Aankondigingen

I've been invited as the International Keynote Speaker for "The 30th International AFRILEX Conference", to be hosted by the University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa, 1-3 July 2026.
This will be preceded by a GenAI & Lexicography Workshop led by myself, in which I will start with the insights of Patrick Hanks (1940-2024), the forefather of GenAI in lexicography, and end with DeepSeek as the ultimate lexicographer.

Dienstverlening

First point of contact: Research project applications for Languages & Cultures (PhD, Post-doc)
Member: Library Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Member: Scientific Research Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Member: Scientific Committee for the Humanities and Social and Economic Sciences ('alpha' working group) of the Research Council of Ghent University