Programme

Day 1: Thursday, May 9th

9:00-09:45 Registration. Aula  Magna (Salón 0019PB001) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS II (GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA).

09:45-10:00 Opening session. Aula Magna (Salón 0019PB001) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS II (GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA).

10:00-11:00 Plenary session: Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) – Session chair: Rafael Muñoz Guillena. Aula Magna (Salón 0019PB001) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS II (GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA): “The evolution of NLP: from rules through neural networks to generative AI (Case study: automatic extraction of metaphorical names of flowers and plants)”.

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Session 1 – Session chair: Iryna Mykytka. Salón de Grados (Salón 0018P1019) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS III.

  • 12:00-12:30 Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez (Universidad de Alcalá) and Marcelo Yuji Himoro (Universidad Española de Educación a Distancia), “Annotating Face-threatening Acts (FTAs) in remote interpreting conversations”.
  • 12:30-13:00 Victoria Muñoz García, Alba Bonet Jover, Paloma Moreda and Manuel Palomar Sanz (University of Alicante), “Exploring Bias Mitigation in Corpora for Fair Language Models”.

13:00-14:30 Session 2 – Session chair: Isabel Espinosa Zaragoza. Salón de Grados (Salón 0018P1019) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS III. 

  • 13:00-13:30 María Miró Maestre and Iván Martínez-Murillo (University of Alicante), “Current Neural Machine Translation Challenges Addressing Spanish Idiomatic Expressions”.  
  • 13:30-14:00 Ekaterina Sinyashina (University of Alicante), “AI and Informal Learning of Pronunciation Aspects of the English Lexis”.

Day 2: Friday, May 10th

9:30-10:00 Registration. Aula  Magna (Salón 0019PB001) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS II (GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA). 

10:00-11:00 Plenary session: Ángela Almela (University of Murcia) – Session chair: Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza. Aula Magna (Salón 0019PB001) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS II (GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA): “A Linguist In Search Of Ground-Truth Data”.

11:00-12:00 Session 3 – Session chair: Raquel Martínez Motos. Salón de Grados (Salón 0018P1019) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS III.

  • 11:30-12:00 Atheena Johnson (Université de Paris Nanterre), “Exploring ESP Lexicology: An Analysis of Student and AI-Generated productions”.

12:00-12:30 Coffee break

12:30-14:00 Session 4 – Session chair: Ekaterina Sinyashina. Salón de Grados (Salón 0018P1019) – FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS III.

  • 12:30-13:00 Marta Degani (University of Klagenfurt), Egon Stemle (EURAC Research) and Alexander Onysko (University of Klagenfurt), “The New Zealand Stories Corpus: overview and close-up on parsing and semi-manual annotation”.
  • 13:00-13:30 Julia Mary Scilabra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), “The issue of adequately prompting ChatGPT in translation and copywriting for Marketing purposes”.
  • 13:30-14:00 Tania Josephine Martin and Jose Ignacio Abreu Salas (University of Alicante), “Big Scale Exploration of Metaphors in English-language Reporting on – Financial Markets during the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

14:00-14:30 Closing session 

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