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: 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)
11.15: Coffee Break foyer outside MBG20
11.45: Translator Style in 'The Beautiful and Damned' Marion Winters, University of Edinburgh
12.15: 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 in Dutch and French parallel texts in Belgium Tom Vanallemeersch and Hendrik Kockaert, Lessius University College, Dept. of Applied Language Studies Antwerpen Belgium
2.30: 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
3.00: Coffee Break foyer outside MBG20
3.15: Problem-Oriented Annotation in Parallel Corpus Exploration Meng Ji, Humanities, Imperial College London
3.45: The Use of a Parallel Corpus in the Study of Translator-Reader Interaction Min-Hsiu Liao, Heriot-Watt University
4.15: Discussion, Networking, Methodological Collaboration
Registration deadline is April 11th
Registration £35 for non-BAAL members, £30 for BAAL members. The registration form can be downloaded as a Word document here, as well as instructions regarding travel, facilities and accommodation. Participants who wish to pay by credit or debit card can also download a payment form. For further 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