Maria Sol Velasco Sacristan

Dra. Marisol Velasco Sacristán is Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid (Department of English Philology), ex-tutor at the UNED (Medina del Campo -Valladolid). She is currently investigator of several funded research projects and contracts with private institutions. She has authored more than 50 academic publications concerning research on LSP, Cognitive Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Semiotics, Specialized Lexicography and Lexicology and Specialized Translation . She is one of the authors of Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa, a dictionary portal containing 28 dictionaries (monolingual, bilingual and specialized) which will be commercialized by Lemma.com, an inprint of Ordbogen A/S. This project prepares information tools for both human users and machines,makes use of up-to-date IT technologies, employs several lexicographers on part-time contracts and is based on the tenets of the Functional Theory of Lexicography. More than one million euros will have been spent in this project before its commercialization which is expected for late 2020 or early 2021.