JOAN MIQUEL VERGES

1) The instrumental perspective of translation: IT applied to translation; IT tools for translation; machine translation and computer-assisted translation; translation and NNTICTs; the Internet in translation; tele-training and teleworking in translation;

2) The social perspective of translation: the translator's commitment to society; the social model of translation; the cultural, social and linguistic impact of NNTICTs; the socialisation of the web: web 2.0 applied to translation; the social model of health and specialised medical translation; the efficient construction of multilingual linguistic resources;

3) Mathematical linguistics and language theory: natural languages and formal languages; language theory and automata; contextual grammars and automata; mathematics, computation, languages, and life: frontiers in mathematical linguistics and language theory in the age of the internet and virtual reality; new frontiers and challenges in the metaverse of virtual worlds.