Research Assistant at the Institute of Neophilology – English Philology at the Pedagogical University of Krakow

Office: ul. Karmelicka 41, room 307
Phone: +48 12 662 69 61
e-mail: ewelina.kwiatek@up.krakow.pl

office hours in winter term 2016/17: Tuesdays, 12.15-13.00, room 307

Education

• MSc in Geodesy and Cartography, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland, 2005
• B.A. in English Studies, Opole University, Poland, 2008
• M.A. in Translation with Language Technology, Swansea University, UK, 2007
• Ph.D in Translation, Swansea University, UK, 2012

PhD thesis: Contrastive Analysis of English and Polish Surveying Terminology [/box]

Research interests

• Translation and interpreting studies
• Terminology
• Corpus linguistics
• Language for special purposes (English for Geosciences)
• Language Technology (CAT tools)
• Machine Translation

Teaching experience

• Practical English at university level
• Translation
• Interpreting
• Ethics for translators and interpreters
• Computer-assisted translation
• BA seminar
• MA seminar

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

• Practical Applications in Language and Computers (PALC), Łódź, Poland, 2009
• British Association of Slavonic and Eastern European Languages (BASEES), Cambridge, UK, 2011
• International Scientific Conference Meaning in Translation: Illusion of Precision, Riga, Latvia, 2012
• ESP Conference, Niš, Serbia 2013
• TOTh Conference, Chambéry, France, 2014
• TIFO Conference, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2014

Organizations

• Cracow Society for the Promotion of Language Studies Tertium
• Polish Federation of Engineering Associations NOT

Publications

Borkowski A., Ziemba E. 2006. Surface breaklines interpolation on the basis of terrestrial laser scanning data. Reports on Geodesy. No 2(77). pp. 95-102.

Kwiatek, E. & ten Hacken, P. 2011. ‘Efficiency of MultiTerm for extraction of terms from English and Polish specialized corpora’. in Goźdź-Roszkowski, S. (ed.) Explorations across Languages and Corpora. Łódź Studies in Language. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. pp. 145-162.

Kwiatek, E. (2013). Contrastive Analysis of English and Polish Surveying Terminology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK. (link)

Hacken, P. & Kwiatek, E. 2013. ‘Nominal compounds as naming devices: a comparison of English and Polish land surveying terminology’ in ten Hacken, P. & Thomas, C. (eds.). The Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 83-101