In her talk “Integrating vocational and research elements in translator training programmes“, Christina Schäffner gave us a realistic picture of the job of translation, including how professional translators are trained, in particular at Aston University, and what the market asks them. Students and universities are facing enormous challenges, since becoming and training professional translators seems
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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
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As part of the CoLiTec initiatives, Maja Miličević (University of Belgrade) and Adriano Ferraresi (University of Bologna) held a one-day workshop at the Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT) offering an introduction to statistical concepts and methods in (corpus) linguistics.
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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
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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
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We are very grateful for the active participation and feedback of tetraTeTra participants, both during and after the event. Below you can find some pictures from the conference (special thanks to Eros Zanchetta and Motoko Ueyama!), as well as a small selection of participants’ comments (translated into English). “A very interesting conference. Speakers provided clear and useful information” “Great
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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
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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
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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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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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