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ccl.umist.ac.uk>************************************************************************** * SPANISH LINGUISTICS * LINGUISTICS IN SPAIN * SPANISH LINGUISTICS * * LINGUISTICS IN SPAIN * SPANISH LINGUISTICS * LINGUISTICS IN SPAIN * ************************************************************************** CONFERENCE AT UMIST, MANCHESTER, 19-20 MAY 1995 * Speakers from Spain and UK * Organised by Instituto Cervantes, Department of Language and Linguistics, UMIST, and the North-West Centre for Romance Linguistics * Talks in Spanish and English OBKECTIVES AND SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The general purpose of the symposium is to bring to England some, mainly younger, researchers from Spain to talk about their work, and let them meet a few researchers working in England for an exchange of views and possibly for establishing or renewing contacts. The research interest at the Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL) has traditionally been with computable linguistics and within this broader field we have concentrated mainly on applications such as machine translation, NLP, language engineering, CALL, terminology, databases, etc. with particular stress on the multilingual dimension for overcoming interlingual communication problems. This orientation has coloured our selection of speakers. While CCL does not have any particular strength in Spanish linguistics, --Spanish is only taught to subsidiary level-- there is a regular presence of PhD and MSc students from Spain in the Centre which provides for continuous contacts with a number of Spanish universities. The symposium is being organised jointly by the Instituto Cervantes of Manchester and CCL, UMIST. The event is addressed to a small number of language specialists from UK universities not exceeding, including speakers, the number of 50 participants. Admission to the symposium is therefore limited and an early indication of firm interest is appreciated. The language of papers is predominantly Spanish. LIST OF SPEAKERS Dr Gabriel Amores. (Universidad de Sevilla) Lecta: a Spanish to English speech machine translation prototype. Dr Joseba Abaitua. (Universidad de Deusto) Ingenierma de la lengua y normalizacisn ling|mstica. Victoria Arranz. (UMIST, Manchester) Sublanguage-based NLP and corpus-based knowledge acquisition with reference to both English and Spanish. Dr Toni Badia. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona) Los complementos de los nombres. Dr John Butt. (King's College London) Constraints on the use of the passive in Spanish and English. Prof Teresa Cabri. Directora, Institut Universitari de Ling|mstica Apliacada. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) El Instituto Universitario de Ling|mstica Aplicada de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra: lmneas y proyectos. Elena Martmnez Caro. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) El orden de los constituyentes como mecanismo de expresisn pragmatica en espaqol en contraste con los utilizados en inglis. Prof Josi Luis Cifuentes. (Universidad de Alicante) Semantica y cognicisn de los usos prepositivos en espaqol. Irina Reyero. (UMIST) The representation of locative expressions in a cognitive NLP environment. A contrastive analysis in English and Spanish. COST 15 pounds, including buffet lunch on Saturday 20th May. A total of 40 places are available and will be allocated on a first come basis. Please reserve your place by writing, fax or e-mail to the organiser. You will be sent a full programme and abstracts of the papers. For further details contact: Vicente M. Forcada-Sanz Symposioum: Spanish Linguistics -- Linguistics in Spain CCL, UMIST, P.O. BOX 88 Manchester M60 1QD Phone: 0161 200 3101 (Departmental Office) Fax: 0161 200 3099 e-mail: vicenteMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue