[ACLA-CAAL] Symposium on Linguistics in Cuba, 2023

Mon Mar 21 13:18:18 UTC 2022

Dear colleague,

Please, find enclosed the announcement of the
18th International Symposium on Social Communication
to be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 23
through the 27, 2023.

It will be a pleasure to welcome you in Santiago de Cuba.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares
President of the Organizing Committee
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Agencia de Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente
Calle 9 Nr. 253 entre 10 y 12. Vista Alegre
Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba, C.P. 90400
Telephones: 53-22646390; 53-22646910, ext. 102
E-mail: simposio at cla.ciges.inf.cu

Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication:
http://www.cla.cu/simposio/indexEN.php

Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics:
http://www.cla.cu/clanuevo/en/

Web site of our Basic School Dictionary:
http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html

Twitter: @CLA_ComSoc

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18th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JANUARY 23-27, 2023

The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the
Agency of Social Sciences and Humanistics
Santiago de Cuba’s branch of the Ministry
of Science, Technology and the Environment,
is pleased to announce the 18th International
Symposium on Social Communication.

The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba,
January 23 through the 27, 2023. This interdisci-
plinary event will focus on social communication
processes from the points of view of Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media,
and Art, Ethnology and Folklore.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

. University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
. Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association, Santiago de 
Cuba, Cuba
. African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz", Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
. Basque Country University, Basque Country
. Semantic Technology Institute (STI), University of Innsbruck, Austria
. Centre of Lexicography, Aarhus University, Denmark
. University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
. University of Verona, Verona, Italy
. University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
. Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
. Latino Education and Advocacy Days Organization (LEAD), California St. 
University, USA

Authors will be allowed to present only
one paper pertaining to the following
disciplines:

1. Linguistics:

- Applied Linguistics
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Lexicology and Lexicography
- Quantitative Linguistics
- Morphology and Syntax
- Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics
- Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Spanish and foreign language teaching
- Spanish as a second language
- Terminology
- Translations
- Linguistics Rights
- Linguistics Policy

2. Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistics research
- Automated grammatical tagging of texts
- Electronic dictionaries
- Software related to the teaching
   of mother tongues and foreign languages
- Information extraction and its applications
- Speech recognition and synthesis
- Related issues

3. Medical specialties related to speech
and voice and with Social Communication in
general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry
- Neurology
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Stomatology

4. Mass Media:

- Linguistics research related to the
   speech of journalists, actors and
   radio and television announcers
- Textual Analysis of radio and
   television programs, and of print
   and electronic media articles

5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

6. Communication and Education:

- Studies related to teaching of the mother
   tongue and other related subjects

Activities that will take place within
the event are:

- Presymposium seminars
- Keynote speeches
- Discussion of papers in commissions
- Books presentation
- Cultural activities

PRESYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two
seminars that will be taught by prestigious
specialists. The seminars will take place Monday,
January 23th, 2023.

The courses will be:

"Natural Language Processing in historical texts"
Dr. Izaskun Etxeberria
IXa Group. University of the Basque Country
Basque Country

"School text and coherence relations:
theory, methods and implications"
Dr. Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana
Dr. Andrea Santana Covarrubias
Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso
Valparaíso, Chile

Participants should say in advance what
presymposium seminars they want to take
part in. An additional fee of 50.00 EUROS
will be charged for each seminar. Participation
certificates will be available.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

In this Symposium several plenary conferences
will be given, which will be offered by
prestigious specialists.

Already confirmed their attendance:

Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt
Professor and researcher
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Luis Fernando Lara
Professor and researcher
El Colegio de México
México

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The deadline of submission of papers
is July 1st, 2022. The papers should not
exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance
of a paper by the Symposium’s Scientific
Committee will be sent before July 31st,
2022.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee to
include the Proceedings as part of the
Symposium’s documentation -as we did
since 1997-, accepted papers must be sent
before August 15, 2022 if the Scientific
Committee had done some observations.

Requirements for papers:

1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages
including graphics, footnotes and bibliography.

2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or
Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium’s
address: simposio at cla.cu
as attached file.

3. Each page must be written in an A4
format with left, right, top, and bottom
margin of 2.5 cm.

4. The paper must be written in one of
the event’s official languages: Spanish,
English, French or Portuguese.

5. The pages of the text should be
unnumered.

Instructions for paper submission:

1. Write down the authors' names,
one under the other, at the left top
of the first page, all in Arial
bold capital letters, 9 points
(Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the author's
name(s) should appear in bold
(only initials capital letters)
the institution, city, country
and e-mail address.

2. In a separate line, at the center,
the title of the paper must be written
in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size
letters.

3. The text will follow -not in bold-
with the same Arial letter, 9 points
size and no leaving space between lines.

4. Paragraphs will have no indentation.
Spaces between paragraphs will be of 1.5 points.

5. Section titles will be written in Arial
bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles
will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size.

6. Footnotes will appear at the end
of each page in Arial 8 points size
letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English,
French and Portuguese

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers  and  Delegates
200.00 EUROS

Companions
100.00 EUROS

Payment of the fee must be sent before
December 15, 2022 via bank transfer
to the bank account to be announce opportunely
and it covers a copy of the Proceedings
where your paper is printed, all other
documentation related to the event,
speaker’s certificate, welcome cocktail
and other cultural activities. Companions
will have access to all of the above, except
copies of the Proceedings.

ACCOMMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees
accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices
for participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Papers submission deadline:
   July 1st, 2022

- Notification on paper’s
   approval by Scientific Committee:
   by July 31st, 2022

- Delivery of papers by e-mail:
   August 15, 2022 (in case of the
   observations done by the Scientific
   Committee)

- Payment of registration fee:
   Until December 15, 2022

- Presymposium seminars:
   January 23, 2023

- 18th International Symposium
    on Social Communication:
   January 24 through 27, 2023

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some
900 km from Havana, is Cuba's
second largest city. Its economic,
cultural and social importance in
Cuban history is unquestionable.
Santiago is also the capital of the
province with the same name.
Surrounded by the green mountains
of the Sierra Maestra range and the
Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique
in its geography and beautiful
landscape. Its surroundings make
the city one of the most important
tourist attractions on the entire
island. The Organizing Committee,
in coordination with the city's
tourist agencies will offer visiting
delegates a host of options allowing
participants to enjoy the city's
beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics
President of the Organizing Committee
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Cristina Alamo Suárez
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Alex Munnoz Alvarado
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Humberto Ocanna Dayar
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Javier Tamayo Lozada
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Rolando Urrutia Cleger
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Marta Cordies Jackson
Director
African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz"
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Kathleen Wermke
University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany

Sylviane Cardey
Centre Tesnière
Université de Franche-Comté
Besançon, France

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza
Basque Country University
Basque Country

Innaki Alegría Loinaz
Basque Country University
Basque Country

Xabier Artola Zubillaga
Basque Country University
Basque Country

Xabier Arregi Iparragirre
Basque Country University
Basque Country

Dieter Fensel
Director
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
Innsbruck, Austria

Sven Tarp
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark

Lucia Marconi
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Chapter Genoa, Italy

Paola Cutugno
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Chapter Genoa, Italy

Rosa María Rodríguez Abella
Università degli Studi di Verona
Verona, Italia

Luisa Chierichetti
Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Bergamo, Italia

Romualdo Ibáñez Orellana
Pontifical Catholic University of Vaparaiso
Valparaiso, Chile

Jorge Antonio Leoni de León
Costa Rica University
San Jose, Costa Rica

Luis Alfonso Urenna Lopez
President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN)
Jaen University
Jaen, Spain

Enrique G.  Murillo, Jr.
LEAD, California State University, USA

Maria Rosa Alvarez Silva
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Adriana Vinnas Dominguez
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Angel Maqueira Aroche
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Fidelia Pozo Pozo
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

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REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms. ___________________________

University: ________________________

Address: __________________________________

City: ______________

Country: ______________________

Phone: _______________

E-Mail:____________________

Paper title: __________________________

Date: ________________

Signature: ___________