Full title Mapping language across cultures: Textual analysis in cross-
cultural and intercultural communication (MLAC10)
Topografías del lenguaje entre culturas: análisis textual en la comunicación
intercultural (MLAC10)
Location: Salamanca, Spain
Dates: 05-07 Jul - 2010
Contact: Ovidi Carbonell & Izaskun Elorza
Meeting Email: (mlac /at/ usal.es)
Meeting URL: http://campus.usal.es/tradotros/MLAC10
Conference focus / Objetivo del congreso:
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. Redes
semánticas en los textos: aplicaciones de las teorías de redes.
? Meaningful patterns in text. Patrones significativos en el texto.
? Automatic recognition of meaningful patterns in text. Reconocimiento
automático de patrones significativos en el texto.
? Pragmalinguistic and constructional
models. Modelos pragmalingüísticos
y construccionales.
? Formal approaches to argumentation, narrative and ideology in texts.
Enfoques formales sobre la argumentación, la narrativa y la ideología en los
textos.
? Teaching and learning intercultural competence through text.
Enseñanza y aprendizaje de la competencia intercultural mediante textos.
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.
Se aceptarán contribuciones en forma de comunicación (20 min. más 10
minutos de discusión) y de póster. Se celebrarán cuatro sesiones para la
presentación oral de pósters (5-10 min.) y discusión.
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.
Las propuestas deben describir trabajos
originales de tipo teórico o empírico en
una o varias de las líneas temáticas propuestas. Los proyectos de
investigación e investigaciones en curso se presentarán preferentemente en
formato de póster. En cualquier caso, el resumen tendrá una extensión máxima
de 500 palabras incluyendo referencias. Se informará sobre la aceptación de
las propuestas sobre el 15 de febrero de 2010 y las comunicaciones completas
deberán ser recibidas antes de medianoche (hora española) del 11 de abril de
2010. Se publicarán las actas de congreso con las comunicaciones y la versión
escrita de los pósters presentados en el congreso. Además de las actas,
también se podrán enviar propuestas para ser seleccionadas como
contribución para un volumen monográfico que incluirá asimismo otras
contribuciones invitadas.
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
(mlac /at/ usal.es) no later than 15 January 2010 (midnight local time).
Se ruega que los resúmenes, en ingles, se envíen como archivo adjunto de
correo electrónico en formato Word o PDF a (mlac /at/ usal.es) antes de la
medianoche del 15 de enero de 2010 (hora española), indicando si la
propuesta es para una COMUNICACIÓN, para un PÓSTER, y su/s
correspondiente/s PANEL/ES TEMÁTICO/S.
Languages of the conference: English and Spanish.
Lenguas del congreso: inglés y español
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.
Publicación:
Las actas del congreso se publicarán en Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.
Las contribuciones se redactarán en inglés o español, de acuerdo con la hoja
de estilo correspondiente (que se hará pública en la página web del congreso
próximamente), y se enviarán en formato Word y también PDF antes de la
medianoche del 11 de abril (hora local).
Se publicará asimismo un volumen monográfico con las contribuciones escritas
en inglés y seleccionadas por el comité
científico de entre las enviadas antes
de la medianoche del 31 de julio de 2010, así como con contribuciones
invitadas. La hoja de estilo de este volumen, así como el resto de
instrucciones, se anunciarán oportunamente.
Important dates:
Abstract deadline: 15 January 2010 (midnight local time)
Notification of acceptance: By 15 February 2010
Full-paper submission: 11 April 2010 (midnight local time)
Early-bird registration (about a 30% discount): 31 May 2010 (payment
received by
that day)
Registration deadline: 2 July 2010
Conference: 5-7 July 2010
Deadline of full-paper proposals for the monographic volume: 31 July 2010
(midnight
local time)
