Global Understanding in Multilingual, Multimodal and Multimedia Contexts (conference)

• Thematic framework: Communication between academia and industry
• Geographical outreach : International
• Types of project: Capacity-building
  
  
• Main responsible:
  World Language Documentation Centre (WLDC)
  Corner House
  Barn Street
  Haverfordwest
  Pembrokeshire SA61 1BW
  Wales UK

Summary of the activities
A major multidisciplinary conference will celebrate 2008 as the International Year of Languages. To be held at the Bangor University Business Management Conference Centre.

The GUM3C Conference will attempt to bridge the communication gap between academia and industry. Conference themes include:
- protection, curation and preservation of languages and cultures
- resources for less-resourced languages
- infrastructural support for multilingualism
- language description and documentation
- ethnicity, identity and language
- multimodal communications and support for disabilities
- web-corpus linguistics
- challenges and benefits of the multilingual internet
- multimedia ontologies and the semantic/pragmatic web

Main partners
Bangor University