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Dr. Diana Santos is associate professor of Portuguese at the University of Oslo and she has worked in computational linguistics, contrastive studies, and corpus-based semantics for more than 25 years, being the leader of Linguateca, a resource center for the computational processing of the Portuguese language.Dr. Krister Lindén is research director of FIN-CLARIN at the University of Helsinki and he has worked in computational linguistics, language technology and language studies for more than 25 years.Dr. Wanjiku Ng'ang'a is a senior faculty member at the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, and is also a Research Lead in the C4DLab which undertakes R&D in ICT4D. Her research work in language technology focuses on African languages, having worked on Swahili, Gĩkũyũ and Igbo.

• Is There a Crisis in Generative Linguistics? Fred Karlsson.- “It’s Etymology Captain, But Not AsWe Know It”: Pump in North Australia. David Nash.- Translation in History. Nicholas Ostler.- Catford Revisited.- Andrew Chesterman.- The Next Step for the Translation Network. Diana Santos.- Core Vocabulary: A Useful But Mystical Concept in Some Kinds of Linguistics. Lars Borin.- Extending and Updating the Finnish Wordnet. Krister Lindén, Jyrki Niemi, and Mirka Hyvärinen.- Burstiness of Verbs and Derived Nouns. Janet B. Pierrehumbert.- Outsourcing Parsebanking: The FinnTreeBank Project. Atro Voutilainen, Tanja Purtonen, and Kristiina Muhonen.- On Dependency Analysis via Contractions and Weighted FSTs. Anssi Yli-Jyrä.- Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages. Patrick McConvell and Jane Simpson.- Necessive Expressions in Finnic Bible Translations. Aet Lees.- Building Swahili Resource Grammars for the Grammatical Framework. Wanjiku Ng’ang’a.- On the Syntax and Translation of Finnish Discourse Clitics. Aarne Ranta​.