Registration is now open for the tetraTeTra conference: ‘Back to Innovation’

Registration is now open for the Technologies for Translation conference (TeTra), to be hosted at the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna (Forlì Campus) on 30 September 2016. With its fourth edition, the TeTra conference (tetraTeTra) returns to its origins: after an event specifically dedicated to free and open source software and collaborative […]

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Successful real-time subtitling at «Diego Fabbri» theatre

On Monday 9 May 2016, one of our final-year students and a newly-graduated one tested a speech-based real-time subtitling tool at “Diego Fabbri” theatre in Forlì during a speech by Mario Capecchi, the Italian-born American molecular geneticist and Nobel Laureate (2007). Under the supervision of Claudia Lecci, our re-speakers operated directly from the theatre control room to

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Workshop «Speaking of wine»

As part of the collaboration between our Department and institutions of the Forlì area, the Chamber of Commerce of Forlì-Cesena is organising the workshop “Speaking of wine: L’inglese per il settore vitivinicolo”, addressed to wine producers who wish to boost their communicative competence in English and to easily engage in interaction with international customers and colleagues during fairs

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Video game localisation: Francesca Pezzoli and Riccardo Lausdei meet our students

We would like to thank Francesca Pezzoli and Riccardo Lausdei for their brilliant talk on game localisation held on Friday 4 December 2015. Game localisation is a dream career for graduates in specialised translation who are also fans of video games. According to our speakers, who have a long term experience in this field, the ideal candidate should have

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Ribbon cutting at the DIT.Lab

The brand new didactic facilities of the Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT.Lab) were officially opened on Wednesday 11 November 2015. Our distinguished ribbon cutters were the University of Bologna new rector (Francesco Ubertini), the mayor of Forlì (Davide Drei), the Presidents of the local Chamber of Commerce (Alberto Zambianchi), and of the Fondazione Cassa

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Corpus Linguistics seminar [23-24/10/2015]

This year we have chosen a rather specific theme for the Corpus linguistics seminar, namely the construction of digital resources for learning Japanese. However, we believe that the seminar is also of relevance to anyone interested in the construction and use of digital resources for foreign language learning in general. Keynote speakers: Laurence Anthony (Waseda) Paolo Calvetti (Venice “Ca’ Foscari”) Irena

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