It was a great honour to welcome Prof Farouk Boubadiba from University of Oran, Algeria, to Wolverhampton. Continue reading
Category Archives: Seminars 2016
Seminar: Sentence rewriting for text processing
Richard Evans, University of Wolverhampton
Date and time: Wednesday, June 22nd, 11:30
Room: MC224
Abstract:
Evidence from clinical linguistics and NLP shows that sentences which are propositionally dense and syntactically complex are relatively difficult to process by humans and machines. Continue reading
Seminar: A Comparative Model for Wordplay Analysis and Translation
Ralitsa Demirkova, St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo
Title: A Comparative Model for Wordplay Analysis and Translation
Date and time: Wednesday 78h June, 2pm
Room: MC232, City Campus
Abstract:
The presentation focuses on wordplay as a stylistic device in British children’s literature. A comparative analysis model for wordplays and their respective translations is proposed. It is based on Attardo’s General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH)[i] and Zhuravlyova[ii]’s cognitive mechanisms of wordplays. It uses six parameters on both micro-structural (linguistic) and macro-structural (cognitive) levels which serve as a basis for comparison. Continue reading
Seminar: An Interpreter’s Wish List
Elena Errico, University of Genoa
Title: An Interpreter’s Wish List
Date and time: Tuesday 7th June, 1.30pm
Room: MC232, City Campus
Abstract:
Interpreting is a very challenging cognitive activity not least because it requires professionals to take translation decisions under very strict time constraints and while performing several Continue reading
Seminar: Automatic Extraction and Translation of Multiword Expressions
Speaker: Shiva Taslimipoor
Title: Automatic Extraction and Translation of Multiword Expressions
Date and time: Wednesday, March 9th, 2pm
Room: MD083, City Campus
Abstract: Multiword expressions (MWEs) are defined as idiosyncratic interpretations that cross word boundaries or spaces, e.g. frying pan, take a look and take part. They have distinct syntactic and semantic properties that call for special treatment within a computational system. Continue reading
Visiting researcher Carla Parra Escartín – Translators and Machine Translation: a double-edged weapon?
Carla Parra Escartín will be giving a research talk this Wednesday. All are warmly invited to attend – full details follow below. Continue reading