Contributions related, but not limited, to the following topics are welcome:

• NLP-oriented perspectives and methods for T&I research
• Corpus-based methodologies and T&I studies
• Annotation models for descriptive translation studies
• Translation and corpus design
• Qualitative and quantitative approaches to corpus analysis in T&I studies
• Corpus-based translation studies and minority languages
• Accessibility issues: copyright and data distribution
• Corpus compilation tools for T&I studies
• Metadata for descriptive translation research
• Methods and techniques for data collection
• Corpus-based analysis of translation shifts
• Parallel corpora in T&I studies
• Alignment of parallel corpora
• Usability of software for corpus building and analysis
• Spoken corpora and alignment of transcriptions and audio/video recordings

Researchers are invited to submit their paper proposals until 1 November 2012 using the Congress Web service. More information about the congress, panels and venue are available at: http://www.fb06.uni-mainz.de/est/index.php