Corpora: CULT 2000 - Conference announcement and Call for Papers

[Federico Zanettin]

CULT 2000

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

(with apologies if you receive multiple copies)

Second International Conference on

CORPUS USE AND LEARNING TO TRANSLATE

Bertinoro, Italy

Friday 3 November and Saturday 4 November 2000

AIMS AND TOPICS

CULT 2000 follows up the 2-day International Workshop organized by the
School for Interpreters and Translators of Bologna University in Forlì in
November 1997 (http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/cult.htm). 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 the following
topics:

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

- Integrating corpus work into 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



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kirsten Malmkjær (Middlesex University)

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)



VENUE

Bertinoro is a beautiful little town on the Romagna hills, renowned for its
warm hospitality and its good wine. The University Conference Centre is set
in a recently renovated medieval fortress dominating the town. The view
stretches from the mountains of Tuscany to the Adriatic sea. You can have a
look for yourself at: http://www.spbo.unibo.it/bertinoro/eindice.html



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Guy Aston (University of Bologna)

Mona Baker (UMIST - Manchester)

Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)

Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)

Stig Johansson (University of Oslo)

Krista Varantola (University of Tampere)



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Silvia Bernardini

Dominic Stewart

Federico Zanettin



ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE

SSLMIT - CULT 2000

Corso della Repubblica 136

47100 Forli

Italy

Tel.: +39 0543 450 307/304

Fax: +39 0543 450 306

e-mail: cult2k at sslmit.unibo.it

WWW: http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/cult2k/



PROPOSALS

Proposals for contributions relating to any of the topics listed above
should reach the organizing committee not later than June 15 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 organizing committee at the addresses above.