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5th Conference Hellenic Language and Terminology 13-15 Oct 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus

(Same post in Greek http://www.translatum.gr/news/21-10-2004gr.htm)

 The Hellenic Society for Terminology (ELETO) in cooperation with the University of Cyprus, the University of Athens (UOA), the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), the University of Patras, the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG), the Hellenic Organization for Standardization (ELOT), the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), the Organization for the Internationalization of the Hellenic language, the Panhellenic Association of Professional Translators and the Pancyprian Union of Graduate Translators and Interpreters organize the 5th Conference 'Hellenic Language and Terminology'.

The aim of the Conference is both to present the current situation of the Hellenic Language and Terminology as it is formed within the multilingual environment of the European Union as well as in relation with the requirements of the developing Information Society, and to coordinate the terminological work in Greece and Cyprus.

The thematic structure of the Conference is:

1. Diachronic aspects of Terminology
2. Linguistic-Ontological principles of Terminology (Terminology and knowledge, designating principles and methods, etc.)

3. Terminology didactics
4. Terminology in specific subject fields - Lexicographical and terminographical studies
5. Terminological resources (special and multilingual dictionaries, term selections, special corpora).
6. Standardization and pre-standardization of Terminology (internationalization of concepts, and interlingual standardization and equivalence of terms, terminology proposals).

7. New technologies and Terminology.
8. Terminology and Translation.
9. Activities of organizations and bodies for Terminology.

The Conference is open to everyone interested in the Hellenic language and terminology. Official languages of the Conference will be Greek, English and French.

The Conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus on 13-15 October 2005.
Participants wishing to present a paper at the Conference are invited to submit an abstract. The abstract should be written in one of the official languages of the Conference and should not be less than 120 words nor exceed 200 words.

The following items must appear on the page of the abstract:
a) title, place and time of the Conference: 5th Conference 'Hellenic Language and Terminology', Nicosia, CYPRUS, 13-15 October, 2005,

b) title of the paper,
c) name, profession, full address, tel. no/fax no and e-mail of the author(s), and
d) a statement of the author(s) about which of the thematic titles above the paper comes under.
The abstract should be written in electronic form (MS WORD 2000 doc format) and sent by e-mail, as an attached file, to: valeonti@otenet.gr, up to March 5, 2005.

The Scientific Committee of the Conference will examine the abstracts until 5 April 2005 and send the authors of the selected papers the necessary information for the preparation of the full texts of their papers. Those texts should be sent to ELETO, in electronic form, before June 15, 2005.

Conference Secretariat:
In Greece
Mr. A. Alexopoulos: tel. +30 210 6118911
Mr. T. Orphanos: tel. +30 210 6111020
Ms. K. Zeriti: tel. +30 210 6115636
Ms. P.Papadopoulou: tel. +30 210 9323243
Fax: +30 210 8068299
E-mail: torfanos@ote.gr - aalexopoulos@ote.gr
Web site: http://sfr.ee.teiath.gr/orogramma.htm
In Cyprus
Ms. Elizabeth Sivas
tel. +357 99 86 59 89
fax: +357 22 75 83 13
Address: University of Cyprus, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, P.O.B. 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

E-mail: cyprusling@ucy.ac.cy