Type of Event:
Symposium
Date:
2008-04-16
Venue:
Heriot Watt University, Scotland, UK
Event theme(s):
Description:
The Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics will hold a one-day symposium on Wednesday 16th April 2008 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
The programme is as follows:
From 9.00 onwards: Registration outside MBG 20, Mary Burton Building, Heriot Watt University
9.45: Welcome, Introduction of BAAL Corpus SIG meetings Prof Graham Turner, Heriot-Watt University, and Verena Jung, HWU
10.00:Using Multiconc in the investigation of parallel texts Philip King, University of Birmingham
10.30: An approach to the terminology of tourism based on the analysis of a Portuguese-English parallel corpus Adonay Custódia dos Santos Moreira, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal, and Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Vigo University
11.00: The Effect of Directionality on the Interpreting Process: Omissions and Loss of Information Dinara Hübner, Luisa Oblitas, Maria Petrocheilou, Francesca Simonetto (Universities of Corfu, Trieste and Westminster)
11.30: Coffee Break foyer outside MBG20
12.00: Translator Style in 'The Beautiful and Damned' Marion Winters, University of Edinburgh
12.30: Basque literature translated into other languages: A study using a multilingual parallel corpus Elizabete Manterola Agirrezabalaga University of the Basque Country
1.00: Lunch and Coffee in EBS, opposite MBG 20
2.00: Use of automated bilingual term extraction methods for studying attutides in French-Flemish parallel texts Tom Vanallemeersch and Hendrik Kockaert, Lessius University College, Dept. of Applied Language Studies Antwerpen Belgium
2.30: Parallel corpora and bilingual dictionaries: a way forward Raphael Salkie, School of Languages, University of Brighton
3.00: Why is German damit getting rarer in translations from English? A diachronic perspective on source language inference 1982-2002 Viktor Becher, University of Hamburg
3.30: Coffee Break foyer outside MBG20
3.45: Problem-Oriented Annotation in Parallel Corpus Exploration Meng Ji, Humanities, Imperial College London
4.15: The Use of a Parallel Corpus in the Study of Translator-Reader Interaction Min-Hsiu Liao, Heriot-Watt University
4.45: Discussion, Networking, Methodological Collaboration
Keynote Speakers:
Deadline for submission of proposals:
Registration deadline:
Deadline: 2008-03-31 Early bird deadline: 2008-03-10
Contact details:
For information, please contact Verena Jung (v.jung@hw.ac.uk).
Her postal address is:
Dr Verena Jung
Department of Languages&Intercultural Studies
School of Management&Languages
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS
Event website:
http://corpus-sig-baal.org.uk/hw_sym08.htm
BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Spring Symposium 2008: Investigating Parallel Corpora
Posted by: Elena Di Giovanni date: 01-03-2008 | 07:00 AM.
