The general aim of this
conference is to bring together researchers of discourse
analysis, textual data mining and information retrieval working in
different
theoretical and methodological frameworks.
"Mapping Language Across Cultures: Textual Analysis in
Cross-Cultural and
Intercultural Communication" is an
interdisciplinary conference combining Discourse
Analysis
approaches, computational linguistics, sequential analysis and
contrastive
cross-cultural approaches.
Main themes of
the Conference
The recent development of analytical tools
and methodologies applied to textual
analysis stands as a turning
point in the fields of Applied Linguistics, Translation
and
Interpreting Studies and Information Sciences. There has been, in
recent years,
an exponential growth of technological and
empirically-oriented studies of language
with clear areas of
convergence with other fields. In their wake, the goal of this
Conference is to serve as a starting point for an integrating
approach that may open
intercultural studies of language to new
technologies and applications, while
complementing computational
linguistics and network theory with a multidimensional
approach
to the complexity of texts. The Conference aims to examine, among
others:
- The need to analyse and compare and identify
regularities in an ever-increasing
quantity of texts (corpora
analyses)
- The development of artificial intelligence tools
applied to information retrieval,
keyword generation, automatic
summary generation, semantic disambiguation,
computer-assisted
translation and automatised translation
- The development of a
discourse analysis methodology in order to search and
identify
regularities and meaningful patterns in texts, at all levels
(syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic and ideological levels)
-
The development of new theoretical frameworks where signifying systems
are seen as
constituting networks (network theory), as those
developed in fields where
sequential analyses are essential, such
as those developed in computational biology
and related
fields.
Thematic strands / Áreas temáticas:
-
Semantic networking in texts: network theory applications.
-
Meaningful patterns in text.
- Automatic recognition of
meaningful patterns in text.
- Pragmalinguistic and
constructional models.
- Formal approaches to argumentation,
narrative and ideology in texts.
- Teaching and learning
intercultural competence through text.
Contributions are
accepted for papers (20 min. long plus 10 min. for discussion) and
posters. Four poster sessions will be held for short presentations
(5-10 min.) and
discussion.
Submissions should
describe original work, either theoretical or empirical in one or
more of the thematic strands proposed. Presentation of research
projects and work in
progress are especially welcome in poster
format. In any case, the abstract should
not exceed 500 words
including references. You will be informed about acceptance by
February 15, 2010 and full papers should be sent by midnight (local
time) of April
11, 2010. Proceedings will be published with the
papers and written version of
posters presented at the
conference. Apart from the proceedings, papers can also be
submitted for a selected monographic volume which will also include
invited
contributions.
Please submit your abstract in
English indicating whether it is intended to be
presented as a
PAPER or as a POSTER and its corresponding THEMATIC STRAND/S. The
proposal should be sent as an attached file in Word or PDF to
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than 15 January 2010 (midnight local
time).
Publication:
Proceedings will be published by
University of Salamanca Press. Papers should be
written in
English or Spanish, produced according to their corresponding style
sheet
(which will be available on the conference webpage soon)
and sent both in Word and
PDF format by 11 April (midnight local
time).
A monographic volume will be published in English
containing contributions selected
by the scientific committee
from those submitted by 31 July 2010 (midnight local
time), as
well as invited articles. The style sheet for these contributions, as
well
as the instructions to be followed, will be announced in due
time.
Registration deadline: 2 July 2010
Early-bird
registration (about a 30% discount): 31 May 2010 (payment received
by
that day)
Ángel Francisco Zazo Rodríguez
(GIR REINA, Universidad de Salamanca)
Anna Gil Bardají
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Anna Nencioni (GIR CELE,
Universidad de Salamanca)
Emilio Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana
(GIR REINA, Universidad de Salamanca)
Izaskun Elorza (GIR CELE,
Universidad de Salamanca)
Mick O’Donnell (Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid)
Nely Iglesias Iglesias (GIR CELE, Universidad de
Salamanca)
Noriko Hamamatsu (GIR CELE, Universidad de
Salamanca)
Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés (GIR CELE, Universidad de
Salamanca)
Pablo Jorge Carbonell (Université d’Evry -
Genopole, París
Ovidi Carbonell
(University of Salamanca)
Izaskun Elorza (University of
Salamanca)
Secretary
Blanca García Riaza (University
of Salamanca)
Reyes Albarrán (University of
Salamanca)