Eye-to-IT conference on translation processes, sentence processing, and the bilingual mental lexicon.

28-29 April, 2009, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

The EU FP6 Eye-to-IT project (2006-2009) has brought together psycholinguists, neurolinguists, eye-tracking specialists, EEG specialists, translation scholars and developers of translation tools. Jointly, they have explored the possibility of developing a research application for studying translation processes intensively and, in parallel with this, to develop a prototype gaze-based support tool for translators. Now that the project is nearing its end, we invite researchers with an interest in applying eye-tracking, keystroke logging and EEG to the study of translation processes (and to language processes more generally) to discuss the state of the art in the field.

Plenary speakers:

Dr. Marcel Bastiaansen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour , Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (Neurolinguistics, language comprehension, EEG)

Dr. Cheryl Frenck-Mestre,  Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université Aix-Marseille, France. (psycholinguistics, sentence processing, bilingual lexicon)

Dr. Jukka Hyönä, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland. (eye tracking and reading)

Dr. Anthony Pym, Intercultural Studies Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. (translation research)

Deadline for abstracts for papers and poster presentations: 23 January 2009

Contact: mb.iadh@cbs.dk