Seminar Lead: Professor Ruslan Mitkov

If you would like to be sent the meeting link, please contact April Harper, who will be able to provide you with log on details.  They provisionally take place on Wednesdays and Fridays.

If you would like to read about past Research Seminars, they are detailed on our RGCL Blog Archive.

This vibrant seminar series hosts leading scholars and CEOs of companies to report on their work and vision related to the technology for translators and interpreters covering among other topics translation and interpreting tools and resources and Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence solutions. The seminar series has both strong research and industrial foci and as such serves not only as a forum showcasing latest research, professional practices, software and business developments but also bridging the gap between academia and the industry.

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— Upcoming Seminars in this series

— Past Seminars in this series

If you would like to read about past research seminars, they are detailed on the Blog Archive or linked below.

Date/Time	Speaker	AffiLiation	Title
10.12.21	Lyke Esselink	University of Amsterdam	Text-to-sign translation: making information accessible
3.12.21	Dr Todor Lazarov	New Bulgarian University/Sofita	Modern Enterprise Translation Management: Problems, Compliance and Resources
26.11.21	Rocío Caro	University of Wolverhampton	Integration of TM and MT
19.11.21	Dr Antonio Toral	University of Groningen	Machine-assisted literary translation
12.11.21	Dr Celia Rico	Machine Translation Specialist	Translation and machines: artefacts, instruments and the evolving role of the translator
5.11.21	Dr Maria Kunilovskaya	University of Wolverhampton	Human Translation Quality Estimation and Translationese
29.10.21	Dr Laura Mejías Climent	Jaume I University	A technological approach to audiovisual translation: How to localize a video game
15.10.21	Dora Murgu & Aleks Sandor Milovanovic	Interprefy	The backstage of a hybrid event- a complex string puppet called RSIBOX
8.10.21	Dr Joss Moorkens	Dublin City University	Ethics and NMT
1.10.21	Dr Parthena Charalampidou	University of Thessaloniki	Storytelling and multimodal metaphors in technical and operative content of multilingual corporate websites
23.7.21	Dr Joss Moorkens	Dublin City University	Digital Taylorism in the Translation Industry
22.7.21	Prof Ruslan Mitkov	University of Wolverhampton	Brief introduction to Natural Language Processing
16.7.21	Prof Barry Slaughter Olsen	Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey	RSI has taken the world by storm. So, what have we learned and where do we go from here?
18.06.21	Prof Jan-Louis Kruger	Macquarie University	Studying subtitle reading using eye tracking
11.06.21	Dr Claudio Fantinuoli	University of Mainz and KUDO	Making sense of AI in the interpreter workstation
16.04.21	Prof Ricardo Muñoz Martín	University of Bologna	Do translators dream of electric brains?
19.03.21	Dr Konstantinos Chatzitheodorou	Strategic Agenda	Using technology in the translation quality assessment
12.03.21	Fardad Zabetian	Kudoway	Multilingual communication is evolving and how KUDO is part of the solution
05.03.21	Yves Champollion	Wordfast	Machine Translation for us Human Translators: Good, Bad, or Ugly?
26.02.21	Prof Rozane Rebechi	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Small comparable corpora for the retrieval of culture-related elements and impact for translation
19.02.21	Elena Murgolo	Aglatech14	Introducing MT. An LSP workflow
12.02.21	Dr Anna Zaretskaya	TransPerfect	How Good is our MT? A Glimpse into MT Evaluation Challenges in Commercial Settings
05.02.21	Prof Gloria Corpas	University of Wolverhampton	Picking up the Flak: Interpreting-related Technologies in Action
29.01.21	Dr Vilelmini Sosoni	Ionian University	MT and creative texts: a study of translations, translators’ attitude and readers’ views
27.01.21	Dr Claudia Lecci	University of Bologna	Creating terminological projects for the detection of in-domain terminology: a workflow for interpreters.
22.01.21	Josep Crego	Systran (CEO)	Neural Machine Translation – an industrial perspective to a complete technological revolution and further expected research evolutions.
20.01.21	Tharindu Ranasinghe	University of Wolverhampton	Semantic Textual Similarity based on Deep Learning: Can it improve matching and retrieval for Translation Memory tools?
15.01.21	Prof Ruslan Mitkov	University of Wolverhampton	Don’t get me wrong…What’s next?  Intelligent Translation Memory Systems…
13.01.21	Julie Giguère	Asian Absolute	Working with Intelligent Machines
13.01.21	Jochen Hummel	Coreon (CEO)	Sunsetting CAT: Threat and Opportunity
08.01.21	Dr Arda Tezcan	Ghent University	Neural Fuzzy Repair: Integrating Fuzzy Matches into Neural Machine Translation
18.12.20	Prof Lynne Bowker	University of Ottawa	Machine translation literacy in the context of non-professional translation
16.12.20	Andrzej Zydroń	XTM International (CTO)	AI and Language Technology: De-demonizing AI
11.12.20	Diana Ballard	STAR Group	Scaling language technologies to overcome growing challenges and deliver new value
09.12.20	Dr Antoni Oliver González	The Open University of Catalonia	Techniques for automatic terminology extraction: implementation into TBXTools
04.12.20	Prof William D Lewis	University of Washington and Microsoft Translator	­Automatic Speech Transcription and Translation in the Classroom and Lecture Setting: The Technologies, How They’re Being Used, and Where We’re Going
02.12.20	Prof Stephen Doherty	University of New South Wales	Eye movements, cognitive load, and human-computer interaction with translation and interpreting technologies
27.11.20	Dr Juan José Arevalillo Doval	CEO/Managing director of Hermes	Quality standardisation in language industry
25.11.20	Prof Mark Shuttleworth	Hong Kong Baptist University	Free translation memory tools: a comparison of some well-known systems.
11.11.20	Dr Frédéric Blain	University of Wolverhampton	Shared tasks in NLP
4/6.11.20	Dr Maria Kunilovskaya	University of Wolverhampton	Linguistic Resources in Practical Translation
23.10.20	Dr Elizabeth Deysel	~	An Overview of Technology for Interpreters – the what and the why?