Convergence conference
Human-machine integration in translation and interpreting
Convergence: Human-machine integration in translation and interpreting was a conference organised by Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey. The conference took place online and in Guildford, United Kingdom, from 1 February to 3 February, 2023.
surrey.ac.uk/centre-translation-studies/convergence-2023
Last updated on 22nd December, 2022.
Schedule
Day 1
10:00 - 12:00 | Workshop Teaching neural machine translation to translators Diptesh Kanojia, Dorothy Kenny, Leonardo Zilio, Félix do Carmo |
14:00 - 14:15 | Start of conference |
14:15 - 15:15 | Keynote 1 Human and machine translation: a meeting of modes and minds? Dorothy Kenny |
15:30 - 18:00 | |
Session 1 Embracing the complexity: hybrid practices for interlingual communication in real time Carlo Eugeni, Susan Daniels, Martin Cornwell, Luke Barrett, Elizabeth Crockett, Evan Dorrestein, Denise Kroesen | |
Session 2 Convergence and collaboration in translation and research Lynne Bowker, Joanna Drugan, Gökhan Firat, Miguel Jiménez-Crespo, Joss Moorkens, Özlem Temizöz |
Day 2
09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote 2 Machine translation and natural language processing in crisis response scenarios William Lewis |
10:15 - 12:45 | |
Session 3 Remote interpreting: towards a convergent research agenda Agnieszka Chmiel, Jessica P.B. Hansen, Eloy Rodriguez Gonzalez, Muhammad Ahmed Saeed, Kilian G. Seeber, Diana M. Singureanu, Nicoletta Spinolo, Wei (Angela) Zhang | |
Session 4 Translation of creative content and technology James Bradley, Dionysios Kapsaskis, Núria Molines, Paola Ruffo, Marion Winters Convenors: Dimitris Asimakoulas | |
14:15 - 16:45 | |
Session 5 Widening media accessibility in the digital age Alison Eardley, Gian Maria Greco, Anna Jankowska, Gert Vercauteren | |
Session 6 Natural language processing augmenting translation and interpreting Claudio Fantinuoli, Veronique Hoste, Ruslan Mitkov, Carla Parra Escartín | |
17:00 - 18:30 | Reception: CTS anniversary celebration (CTS presentation + reception) |
Day 3
09:00 - 11:30 | |
Session 7 Reducing language barriers in mental healthcare for refugees and other migrants Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, Lucas Nunes Vieira, Barbara Schouten | |
Session 8 Bringing together corpus linguistics in translation studies and machine translation Christian Hardmeier, Haidee Kotze, Natalie Kübler, Rudy Loock Convenors: Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Fang Wang | |
12:00 - 13:30 | Final panel discussion: Convergence |