17.1193, Confs: Applied Ling/Translation/Genoa, Italy

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Subject: 17.1193, Confs: Applied Ling/Translation/Genoa, Italy

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Date: 18-Apr-2006
From: Elia Yuste < yuste at ifi.unizh.ch >
Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research & Training 

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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:34:56
From: Elia Yuste < yuste at ifi.unizh.ch >
Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research & Training 

3rd International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research & Training 
Short Title: LR4Trans-III 

Date: 28-May-2006 - 28-May-2006 
Location: Genoa, Italy 
Contact: Elia Yuste 
Contact Email: yuste at ifi.unizh.ch 
Meeting URL: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Meeting Description: 

- Workshop home: www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/index.html
- Workshop history (info about two previous editions and initiative development): www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/history.html
- Workshop current edition (motivation, topic coverage, people, submissions): www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/edition.html
- Workshop news: www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/news.html
- Workshop downloads (e.g. CfP): www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/downloads.html 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (apologies for multiple postings]

3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
''Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training'' [LR4Trans-III]
on Sunday, May 28th 2006

in conjunction with
LREC 2006, The 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION

Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May 2006

Workshop Programme:

Saturday, May 28

09.00 - 09.15 Opening by Workshop Chair
09.15 - 09.45 Translatability of words denoting emotions: the case of unhappiness in a Japanese-English Parallel Corpus, by Fumiko Kondo
09.45 - 10.15 Program Integrated Information ID Tag for Translation Verification Test, by Naotaka Kato and Makoto Arisawa
10.15 - 11.00 KEYNOTE 1: Standards for Content Creation and Globalization, by Sue
Ellen Wright
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.15 KEYNOTE 2: Corpora for translator education and translation practice - Achievements and challenges, by Silvia Bernardini
12.15 - 12.45 Translation as problem solving: uses of comparable corpora, by Serge Sharoff 
12.45 - 13.15 The Use of Corpora in Translator Training in the African Language Classroom: a Perspective from South Africa, by Rachélle Gauton
13.15 - 13.30 Mellange (Project Flyer Distribution)
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 - 15.15 Poster session:
- Standardizing the management and the representation of multilingual data: the MultiLingual Information Framework, by Samuel Cruz-Lara, Nadia Bellalem, Julien Ducret and Isabelle Kramer
&
- A Platform for the Empirical Analysis of Translation Resources, Tools and their Use, by David Day, Galen Williamson, Alex Yeh, Keith Crouch, Sam Bayer, Jennifer DeCamp, Angel Asencio, Seamus Clancy and Flo Reeder
15.15 - 16.00 KEYNOTE 3: Using corpus information to improve MT quality, by Gregor Thurmair
16.00 - 16.30 The TRANSBey Prototype: An Online Collaborative Wiki-Based CAT Environment for Volunteer Translators, by Youcef Bey, Christian Boitet and Kyo Kageura
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 - 17.30 Corpógrafo - Applications, by Belinda Maia and Luís Sarmento
17.30 - 18.45 KEYNOTE 4: xml:tm - a radical new approach to translating XML based documents, by Andrzej Zydron
18.45 - 19.00 Wrap-up & Closing by Workshop Chair

Main contact and further info

  * Workshop URL: www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/LR4Trans-III/index.html
  * Conference URL: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006
  * Contact: Elia Yuste (Workshop Chair), yuste_AT_ifi.unizh.ch

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