[Corpora-List] Final report 9ISSC, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares (Centro Ling. Aplicada) leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu
Sun Feb 27 16:32:20 UTC 2005


Dear colleague,

Please find enclosed the final report of the
9th International Symposium on Social
Communication.

Yours sincerely,


Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Center of Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba

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IX INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 24-28, 2005

FINAL REPORT

The 9th International Symposium on Social Communication
took place in the Convention Center "Heredia" of Santiago
de Cuba with the participation of 255 specialists: 129 from
32 countries (Germany (2), Argentina (3), Australia (3),
Austria (1), Belgium (3), Brasil (15), Canada (4), Chile (2),
China (1), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (2), El Salvador (1),
Spain (18), USA (5), Finland (1), France (9), Holland (1),
Hungary (2), UK (7), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Italy (7), Japan (3),
Mexico (15), Nicaragua (1), Norway (1), New Zeeland (2),
Panama (1), Portugal (4), Sweden (2), Venezuela (7) and
and Viet-Nam (1)) and 126 Cuban specialist from
10 provinces.

The most important remarks are:

1. Teaching of 2 Pre-Symposium Seminars:

    - Corpus Linguistics: current studies
      Prof. Dr. Asa Abelin
      University of Goteborg
      Goteborg, Sweden

    - Lexicology and Lexicography: trends and
      updates
      Prof. Dr. Raul Avila
      El Colegio de Mexico
      Mexico

2. The opening talk  was entitled «Electronical version
     of the Cuban  Basic School Dictionary» by Dr. Leonel
     Ruiz Miyares, Applied Linguistics Center, Santiago de
    Cuba, Cuba and by Dr. Xabier Artola Zubillaga, Basque
    Country University, Spain.

3. The following keynote speeches were taught:

   «Human and virtual agents interacting in the virtuality continuum»
   Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt
   University of Twente
   Enschede. The Netherlands

   «Ortografía Integral. Los grupos ortográficos afines (GOA).
   Vocabulario directo y vocabulario inverso, Goagramas,
   Anagramas y Cronogramas»
   Prof. Dr. Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
   Prof. Dra. Eloina Miyares Bermudez
   Applied Linguistics Center
   Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

   «Systemic linguistics whit applications»
   Prof. Dr. Sylviane Cardey
   Prof. Dr. Peter Greenfield
   Centre de Recherche en Linguistique et
   Traitement Automatique des Langues
    Lucien Tesnière. Université de Franche-Comté
    Besançon, France

    «Variación léxica y diccionarios»
    Prof. Dr. Raul Avila
    Colegio de Mexico
    Mexico

    «NLP methodology for construction of multiple-choice tests»
    Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov
    University of Wolverhampton
    United Kingdom

   «El lenguaje de la droga»
   Prof. Dr. Félix Rodríguez
   University of Alicante
   Spain

   «Needles in a haystack and how to find them?
   The case of lexical access»
   Prof. Dr. Michael Zock
   LIMSI - CNRS
   Orsay - Cedex. France

4. The IX Symposium had the following three round tables:

   «Desarrollo cultural de Cuba en la actualidad»
   Coordinador:
   Lic. Oscar Ruiz Miyares, Ministerio de Cultura,
   Santiago de Cuba
   Participantes:
   Lic. Joel James Figarola, Director de la Casa
   del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba
   Dra. Martha Cordiés Jackson, Directora del Centro
   Cultural Africano «Fernando Ortiz», Santiago de Cuba
   Lic. Aida Bähr Valcárcel, Directora de la Editorial Oriente,
   Santiago de Cuba
   Dra. Etna Sanz Pérez, Decana de la Facultad de
   Humanidades, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba

   «O épico, o erótico e o político na Música Popular
    Brasileira»
   Prof. Dra. Adélia Bezerra de Meneses
   Prof. Dra. Cleusa Rios Pinheiro Passos
   Universidad de Campinas
   Campinas, Brasil

   «Text Mining: research, practice and opportunities»
   Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt (Holland)
   Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel (Austria)
   Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov (UK)
   Prof. Dr. Babis Theodoulidis (UK)

5. Publication of the Proceedings in two volumes with
    243 papers from all participants: ACTAS-I (1-532 pages),
    ISBN 959-7174-04-9 and ACTAS II (533-1076 pages),
    ISBN 959-7174-05-7.

6. Prof. Dr. Juan Luis Martín, Executive Secretary of Higher
    Council of Social Sciences of Cuba, had an active
    participation in the IX Symposium.

7. All papers had a high scientific level but each Scientific
    Commission choose the following as the best:

    Commission Nr. 1 Linguistics
    "Lengua y discurso: el giro perifrástico "haber" en
     condicional + participio en español moderno"
     Gabrielle Le Tallec-Lloret
     Universidad de Rennes II
     Francia

    Commission Nr. 2 Linguistics
    "De multu a muitu y de porque a poique. Vocalización
    de líquidas implosivas: un fenómeno con historia"
    Beatriz Arias Álvarez
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
    Ciudad de México, México

    Commission Nr. 3 Linguistics
    "Las lenguas vehiculares africanas y el español de Cuba"
    Gema Valdés Acosta
    Universidad Central de Las Villas "Martha Abréu"
    Villa Clara, Cuba

    Commission Nr. 4 Computational Linguistics
     "Language-independent informative topic segmentation"
     Gaël Dias y Elsa Alves
     Beira Interior University
     Portugal

    Commission Nr. 5 Art, Ethnology and Folklore
     "Reflejo estético y social del negro boxeador americano
     en la literatura: algunas reflexiones"
     Asunción Xiomara Puente Vinent
     Instituto Superior de Cultura Física "Manuel Fajardo"
     Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

    Commission Nr. 6 Mass Media
     "El discurso del periodista de fútbol: catarsis verbal
      y paradoja social"
     Darío Gómez Sánchez
     Universidad Autónoma de Colombia
     Bogotá, Colombia

    Commission Nr. 7 Education and Communication
     "Los objetivos de la instrucción gramatical: Reflexiones
     sobre la enseñanza de la lengua materna"
     Carlos Sánchez Avendaño
     Universidad de Costa Rica
     San José, Costa Rica

    Commission Nr. 8 Special Teaching
     "El enfoque comunicativo en la atención a niños
     con dificultades en el aprendizaje"
     Mercedes Carrera Morales
     Universidad Pedagógica "Félix Varela"
     Villa Clara, Cuba

    Commission Nr. 9 Foreign language
     "Presença e importância dos marcadores
      conversacionais na produção oral de aprendizes
      de espanhol como língua estrangeira"
     Eliane Gonçalves
     Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
     São Paulo, Brasil

    Commission Nr. 10 Foreign language
     "El inglés en las escuelas públicas en el estado Vargas"
      Jorge González, Gladis Romero, William García
      y Cleydes Guerra
      Universidad Simón Bolívar
      República Bolivariana de Venezuela

    Commission Nr. 11 Medicina
     "Reinventing life and death: discourse in intensive care units"
     Marina Frescura
     York University
     Toronto, Canada

8. The mayor of the Santiago de Cuba city gave the title of
     "Distinguished Visitor" of the city for their contribution
     of development linguistics research in Cuba to:

    Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt
    University of Twente, Enschede
    Holland

     Dr. Xabier Artola Zubillaga
     Basque Country Univeristy
     Spain

      Prof. Dr. Asa Abelin
      Univeristy of Goteborg
      Goteborg, Sweden

The 10th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL
COMMUNICATION will be held in Santiago de Cuba in
January 2007.


Center of Applied Linguistics
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

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Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Calle 8 Nr. 206 entre 7 y 9
Vista Alegre. Santiago de Cuba.
Cuba. C.P. 90400
Telefonos: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141
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