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Event Date From: 22 October 2009

Event Date To: 24 October 2009
Venue: University of Louvain
Event Details: Conference theme: Innovative developments in the field of electronic lexicography. <br<br

Papers on the following topics are particularly welcome: <br<br

- New technological environments (web-based dictionaries, mobile devices, etc.)<br
- Exploitation of language resources: monolingual and multilingual corpora, learner corpora, lexical databases (e.g. WordNet). <br
- Integration of NLP tools (grammatical annotation, speech synthesis, etc.)<br
- Dictionary writing systems and other software available to the lexicographer<br
- Changes to the dictionary macro- and microstructure afforded by the electronic medium (multiple access routes, efficient integration of phraseology, etc.)<br
- Automated customisation of dictionaries in function of users’ needs (proficiency level, receptive vs. productive mode, register)<br
- Integration of electronic dictionaries into language learning and teaching (CALL, translator training, etc.)<br

Email: elexicography@uclouvain.be

Website: www.uclouvain.be/cecl-elexicography.html

Event Date From: 15 November 2008

Event Date To: 15 November 2008
Event Details: Questo seminario è dedicato a tutti quei traduttori e interpreti che desiderano imparare a realizzare con le proprie mani il loro sito web. Creare da soli il proprio sito consente di personalizzare al massimo l’immagine professionale che si desidera trasmettere ai potenziali committenti, nonché assoluta libertà di intervenire in qualsiasi momento con modifiche, aggiornamenti, migliorie, per attualizzare il proprio profilo e mantenere sempre una comunicazione mirata.

Email: modulo1@corsi-traduttori.it

Website: http://www.corsi-traduttori.it/sito-web/index.html

Event Date From: 29 November 2008

Event Date To: 29 November 2008
Event Details: La caratteristica di questo seminario è la formula con cui è concepito: un’unica giornata full immersion per imparare a usare DVX 7,5 Professional, senza esercitazioni pratiche.

Email: modulo1@corsi-traduttori.it

Website: http://www.corsi-traduttori.it/traduzione-assistita/index.html

Event Date From: 22 September 2009

Event Date To: 24 September 2009
Venue: Institute for the German Language
Event Details: The Institute for the German Language is undertaking preliminary work for a comprehensive corpus-based grammar of the German language (project Grammatical Variation within Near-Standard German). This gives occasion for the institute to organise the Third International Conference Grammar & Corpora in cooperation with the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. The conference will cover the following two areas: 1. recent findings in corpus-based grammar research in German, English, Romance and Slavic languages; 2. theoretical and methodological issues in corpus-linguistic grammar research. A look at corpus-based grammar research in German, English or the Romance and Slavic languages shows that not only are there very different theoretical stances in these various traditions but also different empirical focal points of research. The conference organisers feel that this state of affairs should not be seen as an obstacle but as the starting point for fruitful trans-disciplinary discussions. The confrontation of philological traditions, empirical description, theory, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics provides opportunities to further a critical but constructive dialogue.

Email: gac2009@ids-mannheim.de

Website: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/kolloquien/gac2009e.html

Event Date From: 06 April 2009

Event Date To: 08 April 2009
Venue: Lodz University Conference Centre
Event Details: The Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Łódź University is proud to announce that the 7th international conference on PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IN LANGUAGE AND COMPUTERS (PALC 2009) will be held over 3 days, 6 to 8 April 2009 (arrival day 5 April) at the Lodz University Conference Centre in Lodz, Poland

For over a decade, the PALC conferences have served the international community of corpus linguists by providing a useful forum for the exchange of views and ideas on how corpora and computational tools can be effectively employed to explore and advance our understanding of language.

All information concerning the academic programme and social activities will be publicised as it becomes available. At the same time, we encourage and welcome proposals for special sessions, roundtable discussions and workshops.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

Contrastive Studies and Language Corpora
Discourse and Language Corpora
ESP and Language Corpora
Expert, Retrieval and Analytical Systems
FLA/SLA and Language Corpora
Language Teaching Materials and Language (Learner) Corpora/ICT
Virtual Learning Environments
E-testing
Large (multilingual/multimodal) Corpora
Lexicography and Language Corpora
Cognition, Computers and Language
Computer Translation Tools
Machine Translation, Machine-aided Translation, Translation and Corpora
E-books and Corpora and Literature

Abstracts of papers should be up to 500 words long and forwarded (by e-mail) to the organisers. Deadline for submission is 31 December 2008. Presentations should last 30 minutes including demonstrations, questions and discussion.

Email: palc@uni.lodz.pl

Website: http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl/

Event Date From: 21 November 2008

Event Date To: 22 November 2008
Venue: Hotel Rheingold
Event Details: Dieses Seminar vermittelt Übersetzern und Terminologen die Grundsätze der IFRS sowie des Aufbaus von IFRS-Abschlüssen. Ferner bietet es eine Analyse der zweisprachigen Terminologie von IFRS-Abschlüssen.
Am ersten Seminartag wird “IAS / IFRS im Überblick” auf Deutsch behandelt, am zweiten Tag geht es um “Terminology of German IFRS / GAS, Financial Reports” auf Englisch.
Weitere Einzelheiten entnehmen Sie bitte der angehängten pdf.

Email: DTT-Fortbildung@term-solutions.com

Website: www.dttev.org

Event Date From: 06 July 2009

Event Date To: 08 July 2009
Venue: Macquarie University
Event Details: This conference will bring together a number of scholars interested in gaining a better understanding, through the study of actual communicative behaviour or otherwise, of the various linguistic and pragmatic aspects of cross-cultural competence which are required for communication across cultural boundaries to be successful.

Email: Bert.Peeters@humn.mq.edu.au

Event Date From: 17 September 2009

Event Date To: 19 September 2009
Venue: Lodz University Conference Centre
Event Details: PL2009 is the second edition of the PL conference series launched in September 2007 in Warsaw. It is organized jointly by two leading Polish academic institutions: the University of Warsaw and the University of Łódź. The events are held every two years, alternately in the cities of Warsaw and Łódź.
PL’s aim is to convene scholars from a wide range of disciplines, interested, broadly speaking, in the rich and heterogeneous but thus yet to become better demarcated area of intersection of language/discourse and the political sphere (i.e. politics, both in its institutionalized and everyday dimensions). The general purpose is to explore and deepen ways of analyzing language as a political instrument, a political theme, and a political domain.

Email: strus_pl@yahoo.com

Website: http://pl.ils.uw.edu.pl

Event Date From: 08 July 2009

Event Date To: 12 July 2009
Venue: Utrecht University
Event Details: ISB is an international forum that welcomes scholars in all disciplines and fields of research dedicated to bilingualism and multilingualism. Its main goal is to provide a forum for presenting quality research on bilingualism/multilingualism from linguistic, psychology, anthropology, cognitive, sociolinguistic, neurolinguistic and educational perspectives.

The 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism invites proposals for:
1. Individual papers (oral or poster presentation)
2. Colloquia

On the following topics:

• adult second language acquisition
• bilingual speech processing
• child second language acquisition
• contact induced language change
• grammatical development in bilingual children
• grammatical studies of code-switching
• intercultural communication
• language contact phenomena
• language impairment in bilinguals
• language loss
• language maintenance
• language policy and ideology of bilingualism
• language shift
• multilingualism and education
• multi-modality and multilingualism
• neurolinguistic studies of bilingualism
• psycholinguistic studies of bilingualism
• sociolinguistic studies of bilingual communities and migration
• sociolinguistic studies of code-switching
• translation- and interpretation studies

The extended deadline for submitting proposals: October 15, 2008
Letter of acceptance will be sent in February 2009 and the final programme will be available on the website March/April 2009.

Email: isb7@uu.nl

Website: http://cms.let.uu.nl/isb7/

Event Date From: 24 November 2008

Event Date To: 24 November 2008
Venue: Corso di formazione online (e-learning)
Event Details: Il corso, della durata di tre settimane, è rivolto a traduttori interessati a sviluppare le proprie competenze nel campo della traduzione e redazione di siti web. Il corso nasce dall’idea che un buon traduttore web possa diventare anche un buon redattore di testi per il web, ampliando in tal modo la gamma di servizi offerti al cliente. I partecipanti apprenderanno gli elementi di base del web writing e nozioni di HTML utili alla traduzione di pagine web (dall’inglese in italiano) utilizzando Trados TagEditor e un editor HTML.

Email: andrea.spila@gmail.com

Website: http://www.proz.com/translator_training/traduzione_di_siti_web-929.html

Event Date From: 05 December 2008

Event Date To: 07 December 2008
Venue: Bavarian Broadcasting
Event Details: MuTra Advanced Training & International PhD School is a follow-up to the Marie Curie Multidimensional Translation Euroconferences and European PhD Schools at Vienna, Copenhagen and Saarbrücken (2005-2007), Aarhus, Prague (2002-2004) and Saarbrücken (1999-2001). It offers advanced, flexible Translation & Interpreting training of the highest academic quality toT & I professionals and researchers in Subtitling, Audiodescription as well as PhD preparation and management through: • six intensive weekend seminars + one assessment seminar offering lectures, exercises, interactive sessions and individual counselling spread out over a 12 to 14 month period • a focus on interrelating practical issues, theoretical foundations and research skills • instruction in English by experienced professionals and researchers at training sites in Saarbrücken, Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Fosano/Switzerland • tailor-made scheduling as individual weekend seminars or complete PhD package to get early-stage and more experienced researchers ready for a successful career in international academia or other organizational contexts.

Email: h.gerzymisch@mx.uni-saarland.de

Website: http://www.translationconcepts.org/mutraphd.htm

Event Date From: 11 November 2090

Event Date To: 13 November 2090
Event Details: Research on linguistics linked to language disorders has a long tradition in Europe and in the United States. In Spain this is a growing field in Applied Linguistics, although it has expanded considerably over the last decade.

Email: elena.garayzabal@uam.es

Website: http://www.uam.es/2clc/

Event Date From: 22 September 2009

Event Date To: 24 September 2009
Venue: Institut für Deutsche Sprache
Event Details: Am Institut für Deutsche Sprache finden im Rahmen des Projekts Grammatische Variation im standardnahen Deutsch Vorarbeiten für eine umfangreiche Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen statt. Aus diesem Anlass übernimmt das Institut in Kooperation mit der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg die Organisation der Dritten Internationalen Konferenz Grammatik und Korpora. Zur Diskussion stehen neuere Ergebnisse korpusgestützter Grammatikforschung in den Bereichen Germanistik, Anglistik, Romanistik und Slawistik und theoretische und methodologische Fragen in der korpuslinguistischen Grammatikforschung.
Ein Blick auf die korpusgestützte Grammatikforschung in den verschiedenen Einzelphilologien zeigt neben unterschiedlichen Traditionen vor allem auch unterschiedliche empirische Schwerpunktsetzungen. Diese Tatsache muss nicht als Nachteil betrachtet werden, sondern kann Ausgangspunkt für produktive fachübergreifende Diskussionen werden. Das Aufeinandertreffen von philologischer Tradition, empirisch fundierter Beschreibung, Theorie, Computerlinguistik und Korpuslinguistik bietet die Gelegenheit, den kritischen Dialog in konstruktiver Weise voranzutreiben.

Email: gac2009@ids-mannheim.de

Website: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/kolloquien/gac2009.html

Event Date From: 07 September 2009

Event Date To: 10 September 2009
Venue: Convention Centre of Ouro Preto
Event Details: Along the paths of translation: where are we heading?
The enormous growth of the discipline Translation Studies in the last 30 to 40 years has
led to its expansion into different specialities, encompassing disparate subareas such as
Audiovisual Translation, Corpora Studies, Translation Teaching, Terminology, Intercultural
Studies, Competence- and Expert-Performance-Oriented Studies, Textual and Cognitive
Approaches, Historiography, Localization, to name just a few.
This Conference will discuss the following questions: What are the core concepts which
link these subareas under the umbrella term of Translation Studies? Have they followed
very different paths with their own theoretical bases and methodologies? Have we
reached a level of expansion that calls for a reformulation of the long-sought-for unity
of Translation Studies?
The Brazilian Association of Translation Researchers (ABRAPT), after rebuilding its own
paths, is once again bringing together Translation Studies researchers at the 4th
International Translation Forum in Brazil. With the support of the Universidade Federal de
Ouro Preto (UFOP), this Conference will be held in the town of Ouro Preto, a world
heritage site, where culture, literature, history and architecture provide the setting for
the debates on the paths of translation.

Email: abrapt@gmail.com

Event Date From: 30 January 2009

Event Date To: 30 January 2009
Venue: University of Salford
Event Details: This 2 hour workshop is designed to introduce people to the court interpreting profession.

Email: s.hubscher-davidson@salford.ac.uk

Website: http://www.languages.salford.ac.uk/scti.php