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"Fachrichtung 8.6"  

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"Fachrichtung 8.6" 

Although today the computer plays a certain role in most of the degree courses for translators and interpreters, there seem to be great differences as to contents and amount of teaching as well as very little coordination among the different institutes. Quite a long time ago, in 1989, we organized a first workshop within the framework of our research project on the development of an LDP curriculum for translators and interpreters. Since then several colleagues have asked us to repeat this event. Meanwhile, we have become involved in the EC-funded LETRAC project (Language Engineering for Translators Curricula). We thought that this situation provided a good opportunity to invite all those immediately involved in the teaching of LDP courses as well as those using LDP technologies in translation and interpreting classes to participate in a workshop on "Linguistic Data Processing in the Training of Translators and Interpreters". The workshop took place in the "Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting" at the University of the Saarland on December 2-3, 1998. The discussions and presentations treated topics like: 

• overview of the activities at various institutes
• relevance of individual LDP topics
• didactic matters and teaching experiences
• integration of LDP techniques into translation classes
• harmonizing LDP curricula for translators and interpreters
 
We would like to thank all those who followed our invitation and contributed to the workshop by giving a presentation and taking part in the discussions. 

If you would like to have a closer look at the results, you can link to the "Programme" page. From there you will get to the individual presentations.