News and curiosities from the LabTerm
We are all pleased to welcome Dr. Ilmari Ivaska who will pursue his postdoctoral research at our Department. Ilmari holds a PhD from the University of Turku, where he contributed to the Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish. In his prior research, he has used a variety of Finnish corpora, such as the International Corpus of …
Are you thinking of applying to our Master’s in Specialized Translation but found the procedure a bit…daunting? No worries! Our team of experts is here to help! We are producing a video tutorial containing the key points of the call for applications (aka “bando”) that you need to clearly understand in order to apply. However, …
How to apply to the MA in Specialized Translation: tutorial going live shortly! Read More »
Great improvements in IT are under way at our DIT labs. We have replaced all computers in Lab 16 with brand-new HP EliteDesk 800 G2 mini PCs. In addition to investing in smaller computers, we have also installed compact keyboards, allowing for two more seats and reaching 36 workstations overall. All PCs come with a …
The Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT) is about to embark on a new international corpus collection initiative: the MUST (Multilingual Student Translation) project, led by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer (Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université catholique de Louvain) aims to collect a large multilingual corpus of translations produced by intermediate and/or advanced foreign …
Many thanks to Italo Rubino for his lecture on institutional translation at the European Union. The EU is the only international organisation where each member state’s language is an official language. Italo Rubino started his speech focusing on multilingualism as a form of democracy and equality between EU cultures and people. This translates into a …
Translation is the language of Europe [Umberto Eco] Read More »
Randy Scansani, PhD student at the Department of Interpreting and Translation (Forlì Campus), has just returned from a two-day trip at the European Commission in Brussels, where he attended the annual Translating Europe Forum. This year, the meeting focused on translation technologies and machine translation. Here is the report he prepared for us! More than …
It’s been one month since the fourth edition of our TeTra conference, and it’s now time to sum it up and give a brief account of the day (some pictures and participant comments here). This 2016 edition was built around the core theme of innovation in computer-assisted translation, technologies for speech recognition, and machine translation. Early in …
Remember that experiment we did on real-time subtitling? In this post we briefly reported how a student in her final year of interpreting studies, together with a recent graduate, tested the full potential of Dragon Naturally Speaking to produce speech-based real-time subtitling. Given the very positive results we obtained from that first try, we decided …
Experimenting with new tools for real-time subtitling Read More »
The tetraTeTra Conference will take place on Sept. 30 2016. Deadline for registration approaching. tetraTeTra Conference: early bird has now closed but there is still time to register (until 26 September 2016)! This year, our TeTra conference will open with four workshops held in parallel. Three software houses (MateCat, SDL Trados and TranslationQ/RevisionQ) will present their …
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 …
Successful real-time subtitling at «Diego Fabbri» theatre Read More »