Conference

UCCTS 2027 - Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (9th edition)

Date: Wednesday 9 June 2027 - Friday 11 June 2027
Address: TBA

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 the Open review system and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow abstract submission templates below. Page numbers should be omitted. References must be in 9pt Arial font, in APA7 format.

Publications

The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in an online book of abstracts. For the camera ready version of your (accepted) abstract, please use the following templates*: MS Word, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, LateX

*The templates are provided by the Language Science Press and follow the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics.

We also plan to publish selected papers in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course.

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 uccts2027@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact the organisers via uccts2027@hum.leidenuniv.nl.