[Corpora-List] CFP: Parallel Corpora Across Fields: Bridging the Gap

[Špela Vintar]

CFP: Parallel Corpora Across Fields: Bridging the Gaps
Theme Session within the framework of the 6th International Contrastive 
Linguistics Conference (ICLC6), Berlin (Germany), September 30–October 
2, 2010

http://www.ctw-congress.com/2010/ICLC6/

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 April 2010
Acceptance notification: 15 May 2010

DESCRIPTION
The comparison of translated texts has always been an important method 
in contrastive linguistics. As the compilation of large translation 
corpora has become an attainable task, such corpora have come to be 
widely used not only in contrastive linguistics, but also in other 
disciplines such as computational linguistics, multilingual 
lexicography, translation studies, glottodidactics, and language 
typology. Yet, it seems researchers from these backgrounds often do not 
know much about each other, and while parallel corpora exist for a large 
number of languages, the potential of exploiting these resources as a 
tool for language comparison in general has yet to be reached.

The purpose of the theme session is to invite researchers who work with 
parallel corpora against various linguistic backgrounds for a fruitful 
exchange of positions. It focuses on methodological issues as well as 
novel research questions involving parallel corpora in language 
comparison from different perspectives.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
-    The exploration of quantitative methods for the analysis of 
parallel corpora
-    Issues of corpus annotation and corpus query utilities
-    Properties and methodological implications of translated language 
and language production in translation
-    Limitations of parallel corpora and how to deal with them
-    Methods and issues in the exploitation of parallel corpora for 
studies in contrastive linguistics, intra- und interlanguage variation, 
language typology, contact linguistics, translation studies and others.

ORGANISERS
Špela Vintar, Department of Translation Studies, University of Ljubljana
Ruprecht von Waldenfels, Inst. f. slavische Sprachen und Literaturen, 
Universität Bern

SUBMISSION
Abstracts not exceeding 500 words should be submitted via the conference 
web site by 15 April 2010: http://www.ctw-congress.com/2010/ICLC6/
All abstracts will be anonymously peer-reviewed by two members of the 
programme committee.

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Špela Vintar PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Ljubljana
Department of Translation
Aškerčeva 2, SI -1000 Ljubljana
Tel. / Fax. +386 1 2411076 / +386 1 2411501
skype spelavintar
http://lojze.lugos.si/~spela

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