Updates and Events
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The 3rd Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies Theme: Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context Date: July 8th-10th, 2009 Location:School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia The Call for Panel Proposals was issued in October 2007, and the Call for Papers in February 2008. Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R' Theme: This bootcamp/ workshop is a hands-on introduction to quantitative corpus linguistics using the open source software tool and programming language R for both graduate students and seasoned researchers. Date:04-Aug-2009 - 11-Aug-2009 Location:Santa Barbara, CA, USA Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/teaching/bootcamp/index.html Corpus Linguistics 2009 Date:20-Jul-2009 - 23-Jul-2009 Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom Closing date for abstracts: 31 December 2008. Instructions for submitting an abstract: https://www.softconf.com/s08/CL2009/submit.html Postgraduate Conference in Corpus Linguistics The objective of the Postgraduate conference in Corpus Linguistics, organized by the ACORN project team of the School ofLanguages and Social Sciences at Aston University, is to enable postgraduates to present their corpus-related research. By combining the conference with the Aston Corpus Symposium, which will take place on the following day, postgraduates will also be able to hear experts talk about their past and current projects. Website: http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/postgraduate_conference.html 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics The conference covered nearly all topics related to computational linguistics and text processing. Location：Haifa, Israel Date: Feb 17, 2008 - Feb 23, 2008 Web Site: http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=363 Postgraduate Translation Symposium Location：University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Date: Feb 23, 2008 - Feb 24, 2008 WebSite: http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/hum/lit The 4th ATISA Conference 2008 - ATISA IV, “Meeting at the Border: Profile of the Language Mediator” Location: University of Texas at El Paso Date: April 3-5, 2008 Website: http://appling.kent.edu/ATISA/ATISAConferences.html Aston Corpus Symposium The symposium aims to bring together experts in various corpus-related fields. Website: http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/symposium.html Building and Using Comparable Corpora This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the constitution and use of comparable corpora. Contributions are solicited on the constitution and application of comparable corpora. Website: http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/lrec2008-comparable-corpora/ 21st CATS ANNUAL CONFERENCE TRANSLATION THEORIES AND PRACTICES : EAST MEETS WEST Date: May 31 to June 2, 2008 Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The 4th International IVACS Conference The theme for the conference is Applying Corpus Linguistics. |
Seminar on Corpus Tools and ApplicationsFederico Zanettin will be holding an IAL-sponsored seminar for IAL faculty and students from Sept. 4-6. |
| An upcoming interview with Silvia Bernardini |
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1. What direction do you see corpus-based translation studies (CTS) taking in the future? 2. What are the most urgent types of study to be done? 3. Can you describe the importance of CTS for Translator Training Studies? 4. What are the contributions of CTS to the quality of translation research? 5. What are specific examples of successful data-driven studies in different fields? 6. Can corpora help with the study of metadiscourse strategies? If so, how? 7. Do you have any suggestions for methodologies for using corpora in Translation Studies? 8. Is it feasible/possible for researchers themselves to build corpora? What are the issues and limitations? 9. Do you have any new books or papers forthcoming? |