*Leiden University Centre for Linguistics is organising the 9th edition
of the Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies conference
series in 2027.*
UCCTS conference is a biennial international conference which was
launched by Richard Xiao in 2008 to provide an international forum for
the exploration of the theoretical and practical issues pertaining to
the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and
translation/interpreting studies.
Since 2008 UCCTS conference series that took place, among other, in
Louvain-la-Neuve (2018), Bertinoro (2021), Poznań (2023) and Hildesheim
(2025) has played a key role in advancing contrastive and translation
studies by giving scholars of the sister disciplines the opportunity to
meet and engage in discussions on research outcomes and ideas on how to
effectively apply, enhance and further develop corpus methods to move
both fields forward. A selection of papers presented at UCCTS appeared
in special issues of journals important in both fields or edited volumes
published, for example, by Routledge or Bloomsbury.
The 9th edition of the UCCTS conference will be held on *9-11th June
2027 in Leiden, the Netherlands*.
The conference is planned to be an on-site event. However, we will try
to also organise virtual presentation options.
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who
collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive
linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools
(in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment,
translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other
related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to
various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation
studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that
combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment)
and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types.
Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and
computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs).
*Conference topics* include:
* Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and
translation/interpreting studies, in particular with
multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven,
experimental) and advanced statistical modeling
* Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g.
computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive
linguistics and translation studies
* LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data
annotation, data analysis, etc.)
* Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and
methods and other sources of data
* New or remodeled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based
contrastive and translation/interpreting studies
* Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation
studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting)
corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages,
lexicons, databases, etc.)
* Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by
register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode
of production, etc.
* Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product)
properties
* Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication
* Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching
* Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology
* Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting
* Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual
communication
* Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third
language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc.
* Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation,
audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.)
* Corpora and linguistic resources for low resource languages
The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended
abstracts (in PDF) that should be between *800* and *1000* words long
(excluding references) by *20th November 2027*. Apart from a clear
outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also
provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted in pdf
through theOpen review system
<https://openreview.net/group?id=UCCTS/2027/Conference#tab-your-consoles>
and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The
accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as
posters.
* Important dates*
* Conference abstract submission due: 20 November 2026
* Notification of acceptance: 29 January 2027
* Final abstract version due: 19 February 2027
* Registration open: 26 February 2027
* Early-bird registration: 9 April 2027
* *Conference date*: 9-11 June 2027
*For questions and requests, please contact [email protected]*
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