[Corpora-List] CULT - BCN, 2nd call for paper

[Pilar Sanchez Gijon]

CULT (Corpus Use and Learning to Translate)

BARCELONA, JANUARY 22-24th, 2004

http://www.fti.uab.es/cg.cult.bcn

Organised by the Departament de Traducció i d’Interpretació (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona)

and the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttore
(Università di Bologna)


AIMS AND TOPICS

CULT 2004 is the follow up to CULT 2000, organised by the Scuola Superiore di
Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttore of the Università di Bologna in
Forlì in November 2000 (http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/cult2k).

The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and theorists
sharing an interest in the design and use of corpora in translation-related
areas, with special reference to translator and interpreter training.
Contributions, in the form of papers, demonstrations and posters, are sought
on, but not restricted to the following topics:

- Translation/Interpreting-specific issues relating to the design, development
and use(s) of corpora

- Integrating corpus work into introductory/advanced translation courses for
translators/interpreters

- Corpus-based language learning/teaching for translators/interpreters

- Implications of corpus use with respect to theories of
translation/interpreting

- The respective roles of corpora, conventional reference tools and other
computational translation aids

- The World Wide Web as a resource for translation/interpreting

- Corpora and terminology

- Corpus-based descriptive translation studies in the classroom

- Interaction of CAT and corpus tools in the translation classroom


INVITED SPEAKERS

Guy Aston
Silvia Bernardini
Krista Varantola


CFP

Proposals for contributions relating to any of the specified topics should
reach the organisation committee no later than October 20th, complete with
abstracts of about 500 words. All proposals will be reviewed. For further
details about the submission procedure, please refer to the conference web
page or contact the organisation committee at the addresses below.
Notification as regards acceptance of abstracts will be given from December
1st, 2003.

The official language of the conference is English.


REGISTRATION FEES

EUR 110
EUR 75 (students)
Fees include conference documentation, coffee and biscuits, plus lunch on
Friday and Saturday.

It will also be possible to participate in an official conference dinner
and/or a tour around Barcelona. As for accommodation, a choice of hotels is
available. For more information, please check the conference website.


ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE

CULT-BCN 2004, Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació Edifici K,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193-Bellaterra, Spain

Tel.: +34 93 5813371
Fax: +34 93 5812762
E-mail: cg.cult.bcn at uab.es
WWW: http://www.fti.uab.es/cg.cult.bcn


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Allison Beeby
Patricia Rodríguez Inés
Pilar Sánchez-Gijón


IMPORTANT DATES

October 20th, 2003: Deadline for abstract submission
December 1st, 2003: Communication of acceptance of abstracts January 22-24th,
2004: CULT conference