[Corpora-List] Mapping language across cultures: MLAC10. Call for papers

[Blanca García Riaza]

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the information about the Conference 'Mapping
language across cultures: Textual analysis in cross-cultural and
intercultural communication (MLAC10)' that will be held at the University
of Salamanca, 5-7 July 2010.


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Blanca García Riaza
Personal Investigador en Formación
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Universidad de Salamanca
C/Placentinos nº 18. C.P.37002
Salamanca
Tlf. (+ 00 34) 923 294400 ext.1752

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Full title:      Mapping language across cultures: Textual analysis in
cross-cultural and intercultural communication (MLAC10)
Topografías del lenguaje entre culturas: análisis textual en la comunicación
intercultural (MLAC10)
Location:        Salamanca, Spain
Dates:         05-07 – Jul - 2010
Contact:         Ovidi Carbonell & Izaskun Elorza
Meeting Email:         mlac at usal.es

Meeting URL:         http://campus.usal.es/tradotros/MLAC10

Conference focus / Objetivo del congreso:

The general aim of this conference is to bring together researchers of
discourse analysis, textual data mining and information retrieval working
in different theoretical and methodological frameworks.

Mapping Language Across Cultures: Textual Analysis in Cross-Cultural and
Intercultural Communication is an interdisciplinary conference combining
Discourse Analysis approaches, computational linguistics, sequential
analysis and contrastive cross-cultural approaches.

Main themes of the Conference

The recent development of analytical tools and methodologies applied to
textual analysis stands as a turning point in the fields of Applied
Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies and Information
Sciences. There has been, in recent years, an exponential growth of
technological and empirically-oriented studies of language with clear
areas of convergence with other fields. In their wake, the goal of this
Conference is to serve as a starting point for an integrating approach
that may open intercultural studies of language to new technologies and
applications, while complementing computational linguistics and network
theory with a multidimensional approach to the complexity of texts. The
Conference aims to examine, among others:

  The need to analyse and compare and identify regularities in an
ever-increasing quantity of texts (corpora analyses)
  The development of artificial intelligence tools applied to information
retrieval, keyword generation, automatic summary generation, semantic
disambiguation, computer-assisted translation and automatised translation
  The development of a discourse analysis methodology in order to search
and identify regularities and meaningful patterns in texts, at all levels
(syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and ideological levels)
  The development of new theoretical frameworks where signifying systems
are seen as constituting networks (network theory), as those developed in
fields where
sequential analyses are essential, such as those developed in
computational biology and related fields.

Thematic strands / Áreas temáticas:

•  Semantic networking in texts: network theory applications. Redes
semánticas en los textos: aplicaciones de las teorías de redes.
•  Meaningful patterns in text. Patrones significativos en el texto.
•  Automatic recognition of meaningful patterns in text. Reconocimiento
automático de patrones significativos en el texto.
•  Pragmalinguistic and constructional models. Modelos pragmalingüísticos
y construccionales.
•  Formal approaches to argumentation, narrative and ideology in texts.
Enfoques formales sobre la argumentación, la narrativa y la ideología en
los textos.
•  Teaching and learning intercultural competence through text. Enseñanza
y aprendizaje de la competencia intercultural mediante textos.

Contributions are accepted for papers (20 min. long plus 10 min. for
discussion) and posters. Four poster sessions will be held for short
presentations (5-10 min.) and discussion.
Se aceptarán contribuciones en forma de comunicación (20 min. más 10
minutos de discusión) y de póster. Se celebrarán cuatro sesiones para la
presentación oral de pósters (5-10 min.) y discusión.

Submissions should describe original work, either theoretical or empirical
in one or more of the thematic strands proposed. Presentation of research
projects and work in progress are especially welcome in poster format. In
any case, the abstract should not exceed 500 words including references.
You will be informed about acceptance by February 15, 2010 and full papers
should be sent by midnight (local time) of April  11, 2010. Proceedings
will be published with the papers and written version of posters presented
at the conference. Apart from the proceedings, papers can also be
submitted for a selected monographic volume which will also include
invited
contributions.
Las propuestas deben describir trabajos originales de tipo teórico o
empírico en una o varias de las líneas temáticas propuestas. Los proyectos
de investigación e investigaciones en curso se presentarán preferentemente
en formato de póster. En cualquier caso, el resumen tendrá una extensión
máxima de 500 palabras incluyendo referencias. Se informará sobre la
aceptación de las propuestas sobre el 15 de febrero de 2010 y las
comunicaciones completas deberán ser recibidas antes de medianoche (hora
española) del 11 de abril de 2010. Se publicarán las actas de congreso con
las comunicaciones y la versión escrita de los pósters presentados en el
congreso. Además de las actas, también se podrán enviar propuestas para
ser seleccionadas como contribución para un volumen monográfico que
incluirá asimismo otras contribuciones invitadas.

Please submit your abstract in English indicating whether it is intended
to be presented as a PAPER or as a POSTER and its corresponding THEMATIC
STRAND/S. The proposal should be sent as an attached file in Word or PDF
to mlac at usal.es no later than 15 January 2010 (midnight local time).
Se ruega que los resúmenes, en ingles, se envíen como archivo adjunto de
correo electrónico en formato Word o PDF a mlac at usal.es antes de la
medianoche del 15 de enero de 2010 (hora española), indicando si la
propuesta es para una COMUNICACIÓN, para un PÓSTER, y su/s
correspondiente/s PANEL/ES TEMÁTICO/S.

Languages of the conference: English and Spanish.
Lenguas del congreso: inglés y español

Publication:
Proceedings will be published by University of Salamanca Press. Papers
should be written in English or Spanish, produced according to their
corresponding style sheet(which will be available on the conference
webpage soon) and sent both in Word and PDF format by 11 April (midnight
local time).
A monographic volume will be published in English containing contributions
selected by the scientific committee from those submitted by 31 July 2010
(midnight local time), as well as invited articles. The style sheet for
these contributions, as well as the instructions to be followed, will be
announced in due time.

Publicación:
Las actas del congreso se publicarán en Ediciones Universidad de
Salamanca. Las contribuciones se redactarán en inglés o español, de
acuerdo con la hoja de estilo correspondiente (que se hará pública en la
página web del congreso próximamente), y se enviarán en formato Word y
también PDF antes de la medianoche del 11 de abril(hora local).
Se publicará asimismo un volumen monográfico con las contribuciones
escritas en inglés y seleccionadas por el comité científico de entre las
enviadas antes de la medianoche del 31 de julio de 2010, así como con
contribuciones invitadas. La hoja de estilo de este volumen, así como el
resto de instrucciones, se anunciarán oportunamente.

Scientific Committee / Comité científico:

        Ángel Francisco Zazo Rodríguez (GIR REINA, Universidad de Salamanca)
        Anna Gil Bardají (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
        Anna Nencioni (GIR CELE, Universidad de Salamanca)
        Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana (GIR REINA, Universidad de
       Salamanca)
        Izaskun Elorza (GIR CELE, Universidad de Salamanca)
        Mick O’Donnell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
        Nely Iglesias Iglesias (GIR CELE, Universidad de Salamanca)
        Noriko Hamamatsu (GIR CELE, Universidad de Salamanca)
        Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés (GIR CELE, Universidad de Salamanca)
        Pablo Jorge Carbonell (Université d’Evry - Genopole, París)

Important dates:

Abstract deadline: 15 January 2010 (midnight local time)
Notification of acceptance: By 15 February 2010
Full-paper submission: 11 April 2010 (midnight local time)
Early-bird registration (about a 30% discount): 31 May 2010 (payment
received by
that day)
Registration deadline: 2 July 2010
Conference: 5-7 July 2010
Deadline of full-paper proposals for the monographic volume: 31 July 2010
(midnight
local time)




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