NeTTT 2024
New Trends in Translation and Technology
The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices.
Location
- Varna, Bulgaria
Links
- nettt-conference.com/
- nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/First-announcement-NETTT2024.pdf
Call for papers
Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in machine translation, translation, subtitling, localisation and interpreting. NeTTT’2024 will feature a Special Theme Track “Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI”.
Important dates
| Submission deadline | 30 April 2024 |
| Notification | 5 June 2024 |
| Final version | 20 June 2024 |
Topics
- CAT tools
- Machine translation
- Technologies for MT deployment
- Translation Studies
- Interpreting studies
- Interpreting technology
- Emerging areas in translation and interpreting
- Subtitling
- User needs
- The business of translation and interpreting
- Teaching translation and interpreting
- Special Theme Track - Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI
Schedule
Day 1
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Opening |
| 09:40 – 10:40 | Keynote speech Helena Moniz University of Lisbon Unbabel, Portugal President of the European Association of Machine Translation |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Sponsors’ presentation Juremy |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Translation technology session Characterization of Institutional Texts for an Automated Golden Standard: Enhancing Machine Translation Quality Assessment between English and Spanish Luisa Romana, Blanca Hernandez Pardo |
| Optimising Translation Tools for Post-Editing: Results of a User Survey Marie Escribe, Miguel A. Candel-Mora | |
| Exploring Students’ Experience with CAT-Integrated MT and Gen AI: Translating Creative Texts in BWX Viveta Gene, Vilelmini Sosoni, Pilar Sánchez-Gijón, Parthena Charalampidou, María do Campo Bayón | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Sponsors presentation: OOONA |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Machine translation – session 1 Linguistic Complexity in Domain-Specific Neural Machine Translation Daria Sokova, Cristina Toledo-Báez |
| Optimizing Quality Estimation for Low-Resource Language Translations: Exploring the Role of Language Relatedness Archchana Sindhujan, Diptesh Kanojia, Constantin Orasan | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Machine translation – session 2 Evaluating Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual Fact-Checking Irina Temnikova, Silvia Gargova, Tsvetelina Stefanova, Iva Marinova, Ruslana Margova, Nevena Grigorova, Alexander Komarov, Dan Sultanescu, Kalina Bontcheva |
| Towards A Neural Machine Translation Proposal to Help Everyday Communication for People with Broca’s Aphasia Mohammed Djameleddine Belgoumri, Chahnez Zakaria, David Langlois, Kamel Smaili |
Day 2
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Keynote speech Languages, Translators and AI: a dangerous liaison? Carla Parra Escartin RWS Language Weaver |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Sponsor’s presentation Mitra and STMS |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | User studies – session 1 Comparing Human and Machine Translation: a Survey with Italian University Students Learning Russian Francesca Biagini, Anna Bonola, Valentina Noseda |
| From Neural Machine Translation to Large Language Models: Analysing Translation Quality of Chinese Idioms Yafei Zhu, Daisy Monika Lal, Sofiia Denysiuk, Ruslan Mitkov | |
| Professional translators’ attitudes towards control and autonomy in the Human-Centered AI era: presenting a survey study Miguel A. Jimenez-Crespo | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Sponsors’ presentation Pangeanic |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | User studies – session 2 Bridging Cultural Divides: A Study of Subtitling English and Arabic Films in Saudi Context Noha Alowedi |
| Techno-Linguistic Symbiosis: A Systematic Review of Technological Integration in Arab Translation Studies Mubarak H. Alkhatnai | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Applications – session 1 (Short papers) |
| Building a Large Language Model for Croatian Gaurish Thakkar, Marko Tadić, Daša Farkaš, Vanja Štefanec | |
| AI in Political Translation: Revolutionizing Communication or Risking Manipulation? Stavroula Paraskevi Vraila | |
| Enhancing Language Learning through Technology: Introducing a New English-Azerbaijani (Arabic Script) Parallel Corpus Jalil Nourmohammadi Khiarak, Ammar Ahmadi, Taher Akbari Saeed, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Toğrul Atabay, Mohammad Reza Baghban Karimi, Ismail Ceferli, Farzad Hasanvand, Seyed Mahboob Mousavi, Morteza Noshad |
Day 3
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Machine translation – session 3 |
| A New Space in Corpus-assisted Literary Translation Analyses: Examining the Reasons Behind Literary Metaphors and Their Translations Ruiqi Zhou | |
| Machine-Translated Subtitles and Education: The Future of more Accessible Learning? – Insights from an Eye-Tracking Study Frederike Schierl | |
| Machine Translation of Multiword Expressions: double Dutch or crystal clear? Rozane Rebechi, Nathalia Oliva Marcon, Guilherme de Almeida Faller, Aline Villavicencio | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | ☕️ |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Applications – session 2 (Short papers) |
| Manual Quality Evaluation and Post-editing in Enhancing the Correctness of MateCat’s English-Polish Legal Translations Edyta Źrałka | |
| Cognitive Approaches to Translation Activity: A Systematic Literature Review Najia Alghamedi | |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | VIP workshop |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | 🍴 |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Industry presentation |
| Lingea: Integration of Language Tools into Workflows Josef Jon, Isidora Katanić, Efraim Berkovič, Marek Švanda | |
| A.I. and A.D. – OK or N/A? Joel Snyder | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | AI Olympiad |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | ☕️ |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Round table and closing |
Proceedings
nettt-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NeTTT_proceedings_3Jul2024.pdf