Language, Languages and New Technologies
ICT in the Service of Languages- Contributions to the Annual Conference 2010 of EFNIL in Thessaloniki
Published on 14. October 2011
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-3-631-63536-0 (ISBN)
Description
The development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers, by the Internet and the World Wide Web, have caused great changes for linguistics. They affect the methods in the various disciplines of pure linguistics as well as the tools and ways of applied linguistics such as translation and interpretation, language teaching, learning, and testing. This volume presents general reflections and overview articles on these new developments by noted experts followed by reports on the concrete uses of information technologies for linguistic purposes in different European countries and at the European Parliament. A discussion of another important linguistic issue is added: the various uses of the highly symbolic term national language.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
num. tables and graphs
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
425 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-63536-0 (9783631635360)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Gerhard Stickel was the Director of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, the central research institution for the German language, from 1976 until 2002. He was co-founder of the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL) and has been president of this network of central language institutions of the EU states since 2003.
Tamás Váradi is deputy director of the Research Institute for Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert of language technology leading several European projects. Since 2010 he has been acting as secretary general of EFNIL.
Content
Contents: John Nikolaos Kazazis: Welcome address - ?ntonios Rengakos: Welcome notes - Gerhard Stickel: Opening - Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen: Language technology for language institutions. What kind of technology do languages institutions use - what kind of resources can they provide? - Tamas Varadi: The relevance of language technology infrastructures: national and European initiatives - Dimitrios Koutsogiannis: ICTs and language teaching: the missing third circle - John C. Paolillo: Language, the Internet and access: do we recognize all the issues? - Guy Berg: Babel life - Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im Dienste der Mehrsprachigkeit bei den Organen und Einrichtungen der Europaeischen Union - Manuel Casado Velarde/Fernando Sanchez Leon: Notes on Real Academia Espanola's tools and resources - Sean O Cearnaigh: A brief report to Information Computer Technologies in Ireland - Catia Cucchiarini/Linde van den Bosch: Medium-sized languages and the technology challenge: the Dutch language experience in a European perspective - Anna Dabrowska/Tadeusz Piotrowski: Information Computer Technologies and the Polish language - Maria Gavrilidou/Penny Labropoulou/Stelios Piperidis: National Report on Language Technology in Greece - Thibault Grouas : Presentation de la Recommandation << Langues et internet >> du Forum des droits sur l'internet - Einar Meister: Human Language Technology developments in Estonia - Pirkko Nuolijaervi/Toni Suutari: The landscape of the Finnish language research infrastructure - Anna Maria Gustafsson/Pirkko Nuolijaervi: Multilingual public websites in Finland - Svelta Koeva: Natural Language Processing in Bulgaria (from BLARK to competitive language technologies) - Eirikur Roegnvaldsson: Icelandic language technology: an overview - Andreas Witt/Oliver Schonefeld: Informationsinfrastrukturen am Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache - Bessie Dendrinos/Jean-Francois Baldi/Pietro G. Beltrami/Walery Pisarek/Maria Theodoropoulou: Panel discussion: The symbolism of the notion of national language.