Programme
Corpora in Language Learning, Translation and Research
Zadar, August 27-28, 2025
University of Zadar
Trg kneza Višeslava 9, Zadar, Croatia
27 August 2025
| 08:00-8:30 | Registration |
| 08:30-9:00 | Opening – welcome speech |
| 09:00-10:15 | Plenary lecture
Mojca Pecman (Université Paris Cité, France) Terminology, Specialized Corpora, and LLMs: Show Me Your Weaknesses, and I Will Help You Develop Your Strengths |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session 1 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Siyuan Liu (University of Bologna, Italy)
Bridging User Needs with Interlanguage Corpus Design and Applications: The Case of MICICL |
| 11:00-11:30 | Andreja Drašler and Monika Kavalir (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Compilation of a Corpus-based Word List for Teaching English Geographical Vocabulary |
| 11:30-12:00 | Francisco Javier Fernández-Polo and Mario Cal Varela (University Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
From Corpus to Classroom: Leveraging SUNCODAC to Enhance Interpersonal Communication Skills in Academic Online Forums (online) |
| 12:00-14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 2 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Goretti Faya Ornia, Natalia Barranco Izquierdo and Teresa Calderón Quindós (University of Valladolid, Spain)
The Use of an Aligned Parallel Corpus as a Didactic Tool for Phrasal Verbs: an Approach from Cognitive Linguistics (online) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Khalid Elasri (Faculty of Educational Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)
Lexicogrammatical Patterns of Emotion Expression in Standard Arabic and English: A Corpus-Based Analysis |
| 15:30-16:00 | Sanja Virovec (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia)
Corpus-based Research as a Useful Tool in Contrastive Linguistics |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30-17:00 | María Sampedro Mella (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Corpus in L2 Teaching: Enhancing Discourse Skills through Pragmatically Annotated Corpora |
| 17:00-17:30 | Filip Kalaš and Pavol Lipták (University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia)
Phrase-frames in Economic Discourse: A Corpus-based and AI-assisted Comparative Study |
| 17:30-18:00 | Meilin Chen and Linfeng Cai (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Authorial Stance in Academic Writing by Hong Kong University Students: Findings from a Novice Cross-discipline Corpus and Implications for Academic Writing Pedagogy |
28 August 2025
| 09:00-10:15 | Plenary lecture
Simon Krek (Jožef Štefan Institute, Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Squeezing linguistic data into a database model: the case of Slovenian |
| 10:15-10:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 1 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Noriko Matsumoto (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Osaka, Japan)
A Possible Explanation as to Why ‘Go to Shop’ Is Unacceptable (online) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Oleksandra Palchevska, Petro Hubych (Lviv State University of Life Safety, Ukraine) and Irena Snikhovska (Zhytomyr Medical Institute, Ukraine)
Features of Compiling the English-Polish-Ukrainian Fire and Rescue Terms Dictionary Based on the Specialized Texts Corpora |
| 11:30-12:00 | Asmar Ibadova (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
The Role of Mobile Technology in Language Learning: A Study on Azerbaijani University Students |
| 12:00-12:30 | Daša Farkaš, Vanja Štefanec and Marko Tadić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia)
CLARIN’s Services as a Translation Technology Access Point |
| 12:30-14:30 | Lunch break |
| Session 2 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Marija Brala Vukanović (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
Corpora and AI Translation Tools in Maritime English: Ethical, Legal, and Factual Challenges in Translating Specialized Language (online) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Lidija Cvikić (Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia) and Gordana Dobravac (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
Enhancing Early Disciplinary Literacy through Corpus Research: The Croatian RAPID Corpus Project |
| 15:30-16:00 | Marina Banjac (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) and Jelena Banjac (HTEC Group, Serbia)
English Borrowings in Serbian IT Discourse: A Corpus-Based and NLP-Assisted Study of Anglicisms and Englishisms (2011–2021) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Martina Pavić (Institute for Croatian language, Croatia)
Adjectives in Disease Terms: A Comparison of Scientific and Popular Texts |
| 16:30-17:00 | Bogdan Vuruna (Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Serbian for Foreign Students: Variations of Positions of Reflexive Pronoun ‘Se’ in Past and Future Tense of Reflexive Verbs |
| 17:00-17:15 | Closing ceremony |