30.3425, Calls: Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3425. Thu Sep 12 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3425, Calls: Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/United Kingdom

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 03:49:27
From: Angelika Peljak [angelika.peljak at gmail.com]
Subject: Computer-Assisted Literary Translation Conference

 
Full Title: Computer-Assisted Literary Translation Conference 
Short Title: CALT 

Date: 14-Apr-2020 - 16-Apr-2020
Location: Swansea, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Angelika Peljak
Meeting Email: calt.swansea at gmail.com
Web Site: https://calt2020conference.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

STING (Swansea Translation and Interpreting Group) hosted two successful
workshops on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation in 2019, bringing together
more than 70 researchers, students and professional practitioners from 14
countries. These events included not only research presentations but also
hands-on training in using diverse systems and tools, especially free ones:
AntConc, Sketch Engine, LF Aligner, CATMA, Voyant Tools, VVV, NLTK, and
others.
Our 2020 conference will again combine research presentations and hands-on
software training sessions. Again, we specially welcome practitioners.


Call for Papers:

We invite contributions for full papers (20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes
for discussion) on completed research or research in progress with substantial
results. Topics of interest:
MT and literary translation: possibilities and limitations; full MT;
post-edited MT; productivity; translator attitudes towards
CAT tools and literary translation: possibilities and limitations; translator
attitudes towards 
Corpora as resources for literary translation: monolingual, comparable and
parallel 
Corpus linguistics as a tool for literary translation: source text analysis;
draft translation analysis; analysis of text and author style
Computer-assisted auto-analysis of translator style 
Computer-assisted translation of plays
Computer-assisted translation of poetry
Computer-assisted translation of graphic novels
Computer-assisted translation of literature for children and young adults
Computer-assisted comparison of multiple translations of the same text 

Abstracts of 250-400 words should be sent to calt.swansea at gmail.com 
The deadline for submissions is 10 December 2019.

Keynote Speakers:

Duncan Large, University of East Anglia
Jan Rybicki, Jagiellonian University
Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds
Others tbc




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