Venue: Room P4909, Lift 1, Floor 4, Purple Zone, Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
| Time | Day 1: 11 August 2008 (Monday) | Day 2: 12 August 2008 (Tuesday) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Text Analysis for translation I Instructors: Christian Matthiessen & Canzhong Wu |
Text Analysis for translation II Instructors: Christian Matthiessen & Canzhong Wu |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Text Analysis for translation I Instructors: Christian Matthiessen & Canzhong Wu |
Text Analysis for translation II Instructors: Christian Matthiessen & Canzhong Wu |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Properties of translated Texts: Methods and Evaluations I Instructor: Erich Steiner |
Properties of translated Texts Methods and Evaluations II Instructor: Elke Teich |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tea Break | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Properties of translated Texts: Methods and Evaluations I Instructor: Erich Steiner |
Properties of translated Texts Methods and Evaluations II Instructor: Elke Teich |
Christian Matthiessen is Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University of Australia. He is member of the Centre for translation and Interpreting Research and the Centre for Language in Social Life of the Department of Linguistics of Macquarie University; and also member of the Systemic Meaning Modelling Group. He is the editor or author of a number of books, most recently Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective (Volume 1) (co-edited with Ruqaiya Hasan and Jonathan J. Webster, Equinox 2005) and Introduction to Functional Grammar (co-edited with M.A.K. Halliday, Hodder Arnold 2004).
Erich Steiner, born 1954 in Heidelberg/ Germany, studied English and German Philology in Freiburg, Saarbrücken, Cardiff, Reading and London (GB), and has held posts in Saarbrücken, Luxembourg and Darmstadt. He has served as Head of Department, Pro-Dean and Dean at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, as well as received calls from several other universities. Since 1990, he has been Chair of English Linguistics and translation Studies, Dept. of Applied Linguistics, translating and Interpreting, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken. His major research interests include Functional Linguistics, translation Theory and Comparative Linguistics, as well as Computational Linguistics. He has attracted major research projects from the Europaean Union (ESPRIT/ FRAMEWORK, LEONARDO, MINERVA) and from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG/ German Research Coucil). He has been Visiting Professor at Rice University, Houston/ Texas (1986), Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California/ Los Angeles (1988), Socrates Lecturer at Dublin City University (1998), and Visiting Professor several times at the University of Sydney, Macquarie University Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney, as well as the University Oslo over the past 15 years. His major publications include: 
Elke Teich is Professor of English Linguistics at Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She worked as a researcher in the KOMET project for text generation at the German National Research Centre for Information Technology, Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Darmstadt, Germany from 1990 to 1996.
Canzhong Wu conducted his doctoral work on the development of computational tools for modelling language within a systemic functional framework, based at Macquarie University. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, and a Visiting Researcher at the Everyday Language Computing Laboratory, RIKEN, Tokyo. He has been centrally involved in a range of projects within the Meaning Modelling Group/ CLSL since 1995, and continues to be engaged in developing and conducting research projects within the centre and its partners, producing increasingly explicit, computationally realizable, models of discourse across strata and with applications across a range of social contexts.