Danguolė Melnikienė is full professor and head of the Department of Romance Linguistics at Vilnius University, author of bilingual dictionaries and monographs (Bilingual Dictionaries in Lithuania: peculiarities of their megastructure, macrostructure and microstructure” (2009),Bilingual Dictionary: a distorting mirror? (2013), and (The Onomatopoeia or the Hybrid Monster (2016)).