Corpora: CULT2K - Deadline extended

[Silvia Bernardini]

(With apologies for duplication)

Please note that the submission deadline for

                             CULT 2K

The Second International Conference on 

Corpus Use and Learning to Translate

has been extended to

22 June 2000

Notification of acceptance: July 15. Registration deadline: July 30.

For further details, please refer to the call for papers below.


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CULT 2000

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 

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 22, 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.