Please note that the submission deadline for

                             CULT 2K

The Second International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to
Translate has been extended to 22 June 2000 

Notification of acceptance: July 15. Registration deadline: July 30.
For further details, please refer to the call for papers below.


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CULT 2000
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 
Second International Conference on 
CORPUS USE AND LEARNING TO TRANSLATE
Bertinoro, Italy
Friday 3 November and Saturday 4 November 2000

AIMS AND TOPICS

CULT 2000 follows up the 2-day International Workshop organized by the
School for Interpreters and Translators of Bologna University in Forli
in November 1997 (http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/cult.htm). The aim of the
Conference is to bring together practitioners and theorists sharing an
interest in the design and use of corpora in translation-related
areas, with special reference to translator and interpreter
training. Contributions in the form of papers, demonstrations and
posters are sought on the following topics:

- Translation/Interpreting-specific issues relating to the design,
development and use(s) of corpora

- Integrating corpus work into courses for translators/interpreters

- Corpus-based language learning/teaching for translators/interpreters

- Implications of corpus use with respect to theories of
translation/interpreting

- The respective roles of corpora, conventional reference tools, and
other computational translation aids

- The World Wide Web as a resource for translation/interpreting 

- Corpora and terminology

- Corpus-based descriptive translation studies in the classroom

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kirsten Malmkjaer (Middlesex University)

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)

VENUE

Bertinoro is a beautiful little town on the Romagna hills, renowned
for its warm hospitality and its good wine. The University Conference
Centre is set in a recently renovated medieval fortress dominating the
town. The view stretches from the mountains of Tuscany to the Adriatic
sea. You can have a look for yourself at:
http://www.spbo.unibo.it/bertinoro/eindice.html

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Guy Aston (University of Bologna)
Mona Baker (UMIST - Manchester)
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)
Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University)
Stig Johansson (University of Oslo)
Krista Varantola (University of Tampere)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Silvia Bernardini 
Dominic Stewart 
Federico Zanettin 

ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE

SSLMIT - CULT 2000
Corso della Repubblica 136
47100 Forli
Italy
Tel.: +39 0543 450 307/304
Fax: +39 0543 450 306
e-mail: cult2k@sslmit.unibo.it
WWW: http://www.sslmit.unibo.it/cult2k/

PROPOSALS

Proposals for contributions relating to any of the topics listed above
should reach the organizing committee not later than June 22, complete
with abstracts of about 500 words. All proposals will be reviewed. For
further details about the submission procedure please refer to the
Conference Web page or contact the organizing committee at the
addresses above.