EQTIS - Empirical Translation and Interpreting

🔔 We have a vacancy for a tenure-track professor in language technology: machine learning for #NLP. You can apply until 20th of October 2022! lt3.ugent.be/news/vacancy-t…

Today is the day that our EQTIS research team welcomes @jokedaems as our new professor of human-computer interaction. Welcome, Joke, and looking forward to many fruitful collaborations!

Hi Twitter, meet #SaraDelva, who is at her first conference to present her fascinating mixed-methods PhD research on the social role and (self-) perception of the legal translator in Belgian criminal proceedings #TC22 @TransiusCentre

Today @eqtis : Zhangminzi Shao and @bdfrancq presented their joint research on F0 (fundamental frequency) as an indicator of cognitive load, emotional load and mental fatigue <research.flw.ugent.be/en/zhangminzi.…>

Check out our website to learn more about the programme, the venue and registration. Hope to see you there! mils.ugent.be/programme/

ethnographic methods, as well as specific tools such as PRAAT and ELAN. In 2022 we have a new module on Linear Mixed Models. All lecturers are internationally recognized experts with a strong research and teaching background. (3/4)

Top quality research requires outstanding methodological skills. That is why the Deps of Lx & T&I at Ghent University will jointly organize the (second edition of the) Summer School “Methods in Language Sciences” on 16-20 August 2022. (1/4)

Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans Open Access available soon monabaker.org/2022/04/30/uns… @CDelgadoLuchner @libripotens @leesonl @PiotrBlum @Neil_Sadler @amaravalde @bowkerl @rrgould @AbdulGabbar2 @maeveolohan @anarojo659 @dcuctts @rt_1789 @DilekDizdar

Today at EQTIS: Great presentation by Yi Liu on her corpus research of lexical bundles in native speech and interpreted speech. She will be presenting her research at the upcoming EST conference in Olso, so go check her out!

As an international association of T&I institutes we are deeply saddened by events in Ukraine. Translators & interpreters by definition foster cultural exchange, dialogue & diplomacy and endeavour to avoid conflict. We hope that this part of the world may soon find peace again.

New series of infographics available on our #MTLiteracy project website. First up: "Machine Translation Literacy: Stop. Think. Act." All are open access CC licence. Feel free to distribute and help raise awareness about responsible use of #MT

Registration now open for SISU TRSS Summer School 27/6-8/7/2022. Theme: Context and Contextualization sisubakercentre.org/2022/01/19/ann… @BakerSisu @litao0806 @_amroali @DilekDizdar @TII_HBKU @tic_translation @Ye_Tian_1223 @LuisPerezGonz11 @IATISorg @eqtis @SebnemSaraeva @terptraining

@eqtis is hiring a Professor of human-computer interaction in T&I (Ghent University, Belgium). Deadline is 15 March 2022. Come and join us! career012.successfactors.eu/career?career%…

Two more days to reply to our survey on remote simultaneous interpreting: insidethevirtualbooth.limesurvey.net/681191?lang=en This is part of "Inside the Virtual Booth" project funded by @aiiconline I'm conducting with Nicoletta Spinolo (UniBo). #1nt #1intresearch

🆕New #corpus-based #translation #studies publication on #machine #translationese, with my colleagues @OrfeeDC @gertdesutter @BertCappelle and K Plevoets, in Translation Quarterly 101. 👉e-version available here: bit.ly/machinetransla… #machinetranslation #xl8 #t9n

This morning, colleague Sonia Vandepitte presented the EMT mid-term review to lecturers from the European Master's in Translation Network at the Bibliotheca Albertina in #Leipzig. 👍 #EMTnet #DiscoverTranslation

The European Master’s in Translation (EMT) network members are meeting today and tomorrow, 20-21 October 2021, at the University of Leipzig #IALT This #EMTNet focus is: “Human centred education – human centred translation.” #Translation #xl8 #europeanmastersintranslation

Abstracts for the TRICKLET conference 2022 on “Model building in empirical translation studies" can be submitted until 12 November. Conference takes place on 19 and 20 May 2022 in beautiful Aachen! anglistik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Anglistik/…

We are having the kick-off meeting of our FWO-funded research network today... INTERACT: Broadening the theoretical and methodological scope of translation and interpreting studies:towards an INTERdisciplinary lAnguage- ContacT framework