NeTTIT 2026

New Trends in Translation and Technology

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Location

• Dubrovnik, Croatia

Links

• nettt-conference.com/2026/

Schedule

Pre-conference tutorials

24 June 2026

9:00 – 11:00	Post-editing and AI-augmented translation
	Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia)
11:30 – 13:30	Automatic Speech Recognition as a supporting tool for interpreters
	Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey)
15:00 – 17:00	Machine Translation Quality Evaluation
	Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University)

Day 1

25 June 2026

8:30 – 9:00	Registration
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome remarks
9:15 – 10:15	Invited talk: Marko Grobelnik
	Introduced by Marko Tadić
10:15 – 10:55	Translation in high-stake environments Sessing Chair: Marie Escribe
	Navigating the “Fluency Trap”: Cognitive Risks and Structural Challenges in Korean-English Patent Translation Post-Editing Jinam Lee, Jaehee Ryu, Janet Sohlhee Yu
	Translation Quality Assessment of legal translations by MateCat and its use in future translation didactics Edyta Źrałka
10:55 – 11:25	Coffee break
11:25 – 13:05	Linguistic patterns in AI translation Session Chair: Vilelmini Sosoni
	Do readers prefer AI-generated Italian short stories? Michael Farrell
	Semantic typology and audio description. A corpus-based study of motion events Teresa Molés Cases
	Punctuation Patterns in Translated and Original Chinese-English Literary Texts: A Weibull Distribution Analysis Jiawei Shi, Sihui He
	How Decoding Settings Shape Lexical Variation in Iterative LLM-Translation Workflows: A Case Study of Chinese-English Literary Translation Lulu Wang, Hengtian Zhang, Lieve Macken and Kanglong Liu
13:05 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:45	AI-Augmented Translation Ecosystems Session Chair: Laura Noriega
	Enhancing Persian-Arabic OCR for Translation Workflows: A Benchmark-Driven Optimization Approach Masoud Shahnazari, Abied Alsulaiman
	Benchmarking Multilingual Terminology Translation for UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles Maria Carmen Staiano, Johanna Monti, Francesca Chiusaroli, Slava Tykhonov, Ken Hawkins, Hélène Jacot des Combes, Saini Yang, Urbano Fra Paleo, Virginia Murray
	Translation Memory Systems: Evolution, Retrieval Methods, and Human-Centred Perspectives Alicia Picazo-Izquierdo, Salima Lamsiyah, Ruslan Mitkov
15:45 – 16:15	Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15	Interpreting and speech processing Session Chair: Xiaojing Zhao
	Training Interpreting Learners to Collaborate with Captions and Subtitles during Simultaneous Interpreting Huang Yujie, Han Xu
	Does AI-INT Training Transfer Across Interpreting Modes? Evidence from Eye-Tracking Jingyi Li, Yu Weng
	COPECO-Speech: Integrating Speech and LLMs for Post-Editing in Translation Workflows Jeevanthi Uthpala Liyanapathirana, Pierrette Bouillon, Jonathan David Mutal, Sabrina Girletti, Lise Volkart
17:45	Guided city tour
20:30	Welcome reception

Day 2

26 June 2026

9:30 – 10:30	Invited speaker: Yves Champollion Introduced by Ruslan Mitkov
10:30 – 10:50	AI in professional environments Session chair by Ruslan Mitkov
	From SOP to AI-Native Pipeline: Design and Evaluation of a Translation-Memory-Grounded LLM Workflow (Nixa AI) Ana Dumančić Acar
10:50 – 11:20	Coffee break
11:20 – 13:00	Translation in high stakes environments and social media Session Chair: Michael Farrell
	Dual-Metric Compliance and Quality Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Mediated Translation in Regulated Domains: An Enhanced Architectural Framework Viveta Gene, Vilelmini Sosoni
	Fine-tuning Arabic-English NMT Engines for Investment Laws Najat B. Al-Huthali, Yuan Zou, Constantin Orasan
	How Well Can Large Language Models Detect, Classify, and Correct Errors in Chinese-English Public Sign Translations? Shuyin Zhang, Xindi Hao, Zhenhai Li
	#MTFails to #MTWins: Investigating User Perspectives on Machine Translation in Social Media Khetam Al Sharou
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 16:10	LLMs in translation workflows Session chair: Constantin Orasan
	A Comparative Study of LLMs for Idiomatic Expression Identification and Translation Equivalent Extraction in an English–Portuguese Subtitle Corpus Rozane Rebechi, Diego Alves
	From Diagnosis to Action: An Evidence Based Maturity Model for AI Integration in Translation Viveta Gene, Valeria Cannavina
	Project HRVOJE-M: integration of Croatian LLM with a TBMS Marko Tadić, Mladen Stojak
	Comparative analysis of the double-stage revision phase (English-Italian) with an AI chatbot assistance Sofía Calvo del Barrio, Pilar Sánchez Gijón
16:30	Excursion & Conference dinner

Day 3

27 June 2026

9:30 – 11:10	Computational and Corpus-Based Approaches to Specialized Translation and Interpreting Session chair: Tharindu Ranasinghe
	Investigating How Machine Translation Systems and Human Interpreters Convey Meaning – A Corpus-based Analysis of Semantic Similarity Kaifusai Julaiti, Andrew K. F. Cheung
	A Corpus-based Approach to Translating Specialised Terminology in Literature: A Two-step Protocol Laura Noriega, Gloria Corpas Pastor
	Exploring Sentiment Transfer in Cantonese–English Court Interpreting: A Computational Analysis Using Multilingual BERT Sihui He, Jiawei Shi
	Building a European Multilingual Evaluation Dataset: The MMLU Localisation Project within the EMT Network Pilar Sánchez-Gijón, Susana Valdez, Sofía Calvo Del Barrio, Florence Bellemont, Anna Kokkinidou, Mihai Cristian Brasoveanu
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee break
11:40 – 13:20	Dimensions of AI Translation Session chair: Alicia Picazo Izquierdo
	Can AI Bridge the Language Barrier? A Systematic Review of AI Translation Accuracy and Safety in Healthcare Cyril O’Brien
	Using LLMs for Glossary-Constrained Terminology Correction in Machine Translation Seyda Portillo Palma, Sergi Alvarez Vidal, Antoni Oliver Gonzalez
	Flow as Regulated Engagement in Chinese–English Translation: Evidence from Self-Report, Eye Tracking, and Physiological Measures Yanze Li, Yu Weng
	Generated Voices: Examining Patterns and Shifts in AI Translation of Online Feminist Discourse Ailin Li
	Challenges in Code translation using Large Language Models Lukas Theuerkauf, Ksenia Neumann, Abdulrahman Nahhas, Damanpreet Singh Walia, Maria Chernigovskaya
13:20 – 13:30	Closing

Online

	Development of an Uzbek–English Parallel Corpus Search System: A Case Study of Literary Works Shahlo Khamroyeva Mirdjonovna, Gulirano Baxtiyor qizi Nuriddinova, Mehriniso Kilicheva Kadirovna, Gulrukh Erkin kizi Boltaeva, Nodira Roziqovna Qurbonova, Aziza Islomovna Kamalova