[Corpora-List] Translation workshop in Lisbon: Working with corpora

[Santos Diana]

Announcement

British Council - ISLA 
Translation Workshop
Lisbon - 1 October 2004

Working with Corpora

This one-day workshop is an introduction to corpora and their uses in
both translation studies and the teaching of English and Portuguese as a
foreign language. The morning session will include an introduction to
the British National Corpus, to COMPARA, and to some of the Portuguese
language corpora distributed by Linguateca. The participants will then
have the opportunity to try out these corpora for themselves in a
hands-on session in the afternoon. 

Speakers:
Lou Burnard - The British National Corpus, University of Oxford
Guy Aston - Advanced School of Interpreters and Translators, University
of Bologna
Diana Santos - Linguateca/SINTEF, Oslo
Ana Frankenberg-Garcia - ISLA, Lisbon

Programme details:
http://www.isla.pt/destaques/workshop_tradutores_professores_linguas.htm

Information and registration: 
Teresa Almeida
+351 210 309 900
teresa.almeida at lx.isla.pt