Mediterranean Editors & Translators Meeting 2014
Innovation and tradition: mining the human resource
Workshop and conference program
MET's 10th annual meeting will be held at Euroforum in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on Oct 30 - Nov 1.
Download full program in PDF.
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30 Oct 2014 — Thursday afternoon: Workshops 31 Oct 2014 — Friday morning: Workshops 31 Oct 2014 — Friday afternoon: Conference 01 Nov 2014 — Saturday: Conference Alongside the main program, we are scheduling “off-METM” networking get-togethers around a variety of interests and issues. Click for more information about off-METM get-togethers. |
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| 15:00-16:30 | CHECK-IN — The registration desk is open | |||
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16:00- 19:00 |
WORKSHOP 1 | WORKSHOP 2 | WORKSHOP 3 | MINISESSIONS |
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Practical stats, part 1: understanding and reporting descriptive and bivariate analyses Darko Hren |
Corpus-guided decision-making for editors and translators Mary Ellen Kerans |
Solving terminology problems more quickly with IntelliWebSearch Michael Farrell |
Subject–verb agreement: overcoming the stumbling blocks Tom O’Boyle Singular they: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence? John Bates |
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| Thursday evening | |
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19:00- 20:00 |
CHECK-IN — The registration desk is open |
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20:30- 23:00 |
Off-METM |
| Scheduled networking get-togethers over dinner | |
| Friday morning | ||||||
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| 08:30-10:00 | CHECK-IN — The registration desk is open | |||||
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9:30- 12:30 |
WORKSHOP PROGRAM | |||||
| WS 1 | WS 2 | WS 3 | WS 4 | WS 5 | MINISESSIONS | |
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Practical stats, part 2: understanding and reporting regression analyses and multivariate ANOVA models Darko Hren |
A keyword corpus to go: exploring the potential of WebBootCat Anne Murray |
Readability: 10 strategies for improving flow in translated or non-English speakers’ texts John Bates |
Anatomy, part 3: the nervous system, an overview for English language specialists Philip Bazire |
Using wildcards in Microsoft Word find-and-replace routines: in search of speed and consistency Kathleen Lyle |
On voice: activating the passivists, passifying the activists Irwin Temkin Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on Irwin Temkin |
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| Friday midday | |
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12:30- 13:30 |
CHECK-IN — The registration desk is open |
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12:45- 15:00 |
Off-METM |
| Scheduled networking get-togethers over lunch | |
| Friday evening | |
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21:30- 23:30 |
Off-METM |
| Scheduled networking get-togethers over dinner | |
| Saturday morning | ||
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8:30- 10:00 |
CHECK-IN — The registration desk is open | |
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9:00- 10:30 |
Knowledge update panel More news with practical implications from the world of biomedical editors Mary Ellen Kerans (overall trends and news), Elke Bartholomäus (bilingual publication, sustainability), Simon Bartlett (peer review) and Karen Shashok (plagiarism, related ethics issues) |
Promising practices Editor, translator or post-editor? Or how machine translation is here to stay Celia Rico Getting the most out of machine translation Mary Savage PETRA 1.0®: A semi-automated aid for the evaluation of the grammatical quality of English-to-Spanish translations Rosa Rabadán |
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10:30- 11:00 |
Coffee break (The registration desk is open) |
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11:00- 12:00 |
Ergonomics and translation environment interoperability for teams Kevin Lossner |
Editing university students’ “assessed work in progress”: what we can learn from existing guidelines Joy Burrough-Boenisch |
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12:10- 13:30 |
General Assembly Report from MET Council, elections to Council and open discussion Download the agenda and last year's minutes here (login required) |
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| Saturday midday | |
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| 13:45 | Lunch in the Euroforum (included in registration fee) |
| Saturday evening | |
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| 20:30 | Closing supper |
