24.3857, Calls: Translation, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics/Denmark

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Subject: 24.3857, Calls: Translation, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics/Denmark

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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:03:20
From: Arnt Lykke Jakobsen [alj.ibc at cbs.dk]
Subject: Translation in Transition: Between Cognition, Computing, and Technology

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Full Title: Translation in Transition: Between Cognition, Computing, and Technology 

Date: 30-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2014
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact Person: Bartolomeo Mesa-Loa
Meeting Email: bm.ibc at cbs.dk
Web Site: http://bridge.cbs.dk/platform/?q=conference2014 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2013 

Meeting Description:

The main focus of research at the CBS centre for research and innovation in translation and translation technology (CRITT) has been on developing a methodology for translation process research and developing and studying software for translation and post-editing as well as for the study of cognitive processes underlying these tasks. The use of keylogging and eyetracking, sometimes in combination with cued retrospection, less often with concurrent think-aloud, has given much new insight into how translators, at different levels of expertise, produce translations. Our database with recordings of translation and post-editing events now holds close to 1.000 recordings, which we are happy to share with research colleagues around the world. The main tools in this methodological development and research have been Translog and Translog II, both of which have undergone many changes over the years. In the EU FP6 Eye-to-IT project (2006-2009) a gaze-based application (based on Translog and an integrated gaze-to-word mapping tool) was developed to support reading and translation by displaying relevant interlinear prompts whenever a fixation on a word exceeded a time threshold defined by the researcher or user. Currently, in the context of the EU FP7 CASMACAT project (2011-2014), we are developing an ‘intelligent’ interactive application to support post-editing of machine-translated text, for which much of the ‘intelligence’ is derived from our study of expert human translator behaviour.

Hitherto, most of our experiments have involved keyboard and/or gaze input. Only one major project, called ‘Speaking your translation’, has investigated the use of spoken input. However, with recent advances in automatic voice recognition, we foresee that spoken input may soon become standard, either alone or as part of a multimodal key/eye /speech input solution. In order to tackle this new prospect, CRITT has joined forces with the CBS DanCAST centre, which specialises in speech recognition, in a new research platform called The Bridge.

“Translation in transition: Between cognition, computing and technology” will provide a forum for discussion both of how we can get to know more about how human translators exercise their skill cognitively and of how the computer can be made to help human translators, by automatically translating written text, by recognising and translating spoken utterances or - more indirectly - by logging translation events and analysing recorded process data.

Conference fee: €100 (includes book of abstracts, coffees and lunches)

Register and pay here: www.conferencemanager.dk/translation2014/registration

Conference dinner: January 30, 2013. 

This conference will be optional and sponsored by CBS at an additional cost of €30.

Keynote Speakers: 

Annette de Groot (U. Amsterdam)
Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T)
Shravan Vasishth (U. Potsdam)

Contact: Bartolomé Mesa-Lao (bm.ibc at cbs.dk)

Call for Papers:

We invite papers on such subjects as:

- Translation process research
- Reading processes (especially in translation)
- Writing and post-editing processes
- Intelligent machine translation (MT which learns from/adapts to human users)
- Cognition and translation
- Computational modelling of human translation
- Speech recognition and translation
- Translation expertise, in people and in systems

Important Information & Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: November 15, 2013. Max. 400 words. Mail to bm.ibc at cbs.dk
Notification of acceptance or rejection: December 2, 2013
Registration deadline: December 16, 2013

Scientific Committee: 

Laura Winther Balling
Michael Carl
Barbara Dragsted
Peter Juel Henrichsen
Arnt Lykke Jakobsen
Andreas Søeborg Kirkedal

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