2012: Aveiro (PT)
The 2012 Colloquium took place on 20 April in Aveiro, Portugal and was hosted by the Portuguese society for technical communication, APCOMTEC.
Programme and Presentations (PDF)
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration and setting in for the opening session | ||
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Welcome and Opening session | Maria Teresa Roberto, Terhi Sipilä | APCOMTEC and Departamento de Línguas e Culturas, Universidade de Aveiro; TCeurope |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Make your documentation mobile-compliant: think minimalism! | Marie-Louise Flacke | CI3M |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Informed Consent Forms and Readability: A Case Study | Susana Valdez |
Centro de Estudos Anglísticos (CEAUL), Universidade de Lisboa -- Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH, UNL) |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | The advantages and disadvantages of the use of PDF in the translation world | Daniela Nicita Franco Bertaccini |
Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLMIT), Università di Bologna, Sede di Forlì |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Beyond the food label: building a termbase on Functional Food to the consumer | Ana Rita Remígio |
Centro de Línguas e Culturas, Universidade de Aveiro |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Controlled language approaches to improving English language technical document comprehensibility for an international readership | Stephen Crabbe | University of Portsmouth |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Round table discussion | All speakers | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Closing session | Rute Costa | APCOMTEC and Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |