The World Language Documentation Centre, together with Bangor University and Language Standards for Global Business, wishes to announce a major multidisciplinary conference to celebrate 2008 as the International Year of Languages
Held on August 22-23, 2008
Held at the Bangor University Business Management Conference Centre
This eventwass supported by the Welsh Assembly Government and the UK National Committee to UNESCO
The United Nations announced that 2008 would be the International Year of Languages, recognizing the importance of multilingualism in supporting international understanding. The GUM3C conference attempted to bridge the communications gap between academia and industry, asking (and attempting to answer) such questions:
- How can industry help academia prioritize its research in the 3 Ms?
- What are the developing standards, who are developing them and will they be used?
- How will this generate peace, prosperity and global understanding?
Keynote Speakers
Christian Galinski, Director of Infoterm and Secretary of ISO TC/37
David Crystal, Honorary Professor, Bangor University
Richard Ennals, Director of the UK National Commission for UNESCO
Call for papers:
Full papers and poster submissions were invited for peer-review that presented original and unpublished contributions to the themes of:
- protection, curation and preservation of languages and cultures
- resources for less-resourced languages
- infrastructural support for multilingualism
- language description and documentation
- ethnicity, identity and language
- multimodal communications and support for disabilities
- web-corpus linguistics
- challenges and benefits of the multilingual internet
- multimedia ontologies and the semantic/pragmatic web
and topics generally related to challenges for terminologies, lexica, ontologies, and related content resources.
Call for workshops:
Submissions for dedicated workshops were encouraged. Workshop organizers were asked to submit calls to the conference committee, identifying target audience, workshop topics, workshop organizers and their affiliations. Workshops aimed at SMEs and the software, translation and creative industry sectors were especially welcome. The conference had the use of a dedicated IT suite with 25 computer terminals for the conference (details can be found here) and was able to host specialist hands-on workshops. Other seminar rooms available had good quality presentation equipment including data projectors and large screens.
Important dates:
Submission deadline for Abstracts |
May 30, 2008 |
Notification |
June 30, 2008 |
Registration and camera ready copy |
July 25, 2008 |
Final author manuscripts were tobe 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format:). Full papers should not exceed 8 pages. Poster submissions were not to exceed 4 pages. Word template and formatting instructions can be found here.
All initial enquiries should be sent to info@thewldc.org
Administrative Committee:
Debbie Garside (Chair) , CEO WLDC
Delyth Prys (Secretary), Bangor University, UK
Chris Cox, GLMDR Quality and Compliance Manager
Mike Roberts, Chairman, BSI/TC TS/1
Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK.
Anja Drame, Info Term
Eva-Maria Leitner, Language Standards for Global Business Chairperson
Scientific Committee:
Anja Drame, InfoTerm
Anthony Aristar, Linguist List
Chris Cox, GLMDR Quality and Compliance Manager
Debbie Garside, CEO, WLDC
Delyth Prys, Bangor University
Don Osborn, Bisharat
Doug Ewell, IETF
Eva-Maria Leitner, Language Standards for Global Business Chairperson
Gerard Meijssen, OmegaWiki
Gerhard Budin, Chairman, ISO/TC 37 SC2
Havard Hjulstad, Chairman, ISO/TC 37 and ISO/TC 37 SC2 WG1
Jennifer de Camp, MITRE
John Cowan, IETF
Jonathan Amith, Yale University
Karen Broome, Industry Expert
Khaled Fattal, CEO, Multilingual Internet Names Consortium
Laurent Romary, Director, Max-Planck Digital Library
Lee Gillam, University of Surrey
Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University Beijing
Martin Benjamin, Kamusi Project
Michael Everson, Unicode Consortium Registrar for ISO 15924
Mike Roberts, Chairman, BSI/TC TS/1
Peter Austin, SOAS
Peter Wittenburg, Technical Director, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Sue Ellen Wright, Kent State University Institute for Applied Linguistics
