34.2338, Calls: Say It Again: International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies

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Subject: 34.2338, Calls: Say It Again: International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies

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Date: 28-Jul-2023
From: Desiré Martos [Lexytrad at uma.es]
Subject: Say It Again: International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies


Full Title: Say It Again: International Workshop on Interpreting
Technologies
Short Title: SAY-IT AGAIN 2023

Date: 02-Nov-2023 - 03-Nov-2023
Location: Málaga, Spain
Contact Person: Desiré Martos
Meeting Email: Lexytrad at uma.es
Web Site: https://lexytrad.es/SAYITAGAIN2023/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Lexicography; Text/Corpus
Linguistics; Translation

Call Deadline: 12-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce Say IT again: International Workshop on
Interpreting Technologies (SAY-IT AGAIN 2023), which will take place
at The Green Ray (University of Malaga, Spain), on the 2nd and 3rd of
November 2023. SAY-IT AGAIN 2023 is a follow-up of the two successful
events International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies, which took
place in May 2022, and Just say IT: International Workshop on
Interpreting Technologies (SAY-IT 2023), in June 2023, both at the
University of Malaga. SAY-IT AGAIN 2023 will also run parallel to two
collocated events: a hands-on seminar on VIP (a voice-text integrated
system for interpreters) and the second edition of the Adam Kilgarriff
Award Ceremony, which will take place on the 3rd of November 2023.
Like our previous edition, SAY-IT AGAIN 2023 will also be hybrid,
which means that both attendees and participants will have the chance
to choose whether they want to attend the workshop on site or online.
Limited spots!
This workshop seeks to act as a meeting point for researchers working
in interpreting-related technologies (CAI tools, machine interpreting,
speech to text/speech translation, remote interpreting, etc.);
practicing tech-savvy interpreters; companies and freelancers
providing services in interpreting as well as companies developing
tools for interpreters. In addition to the short papers for
presentation, SAY-IT AGAIN will feature invited talks by prominent
experts as well as presentations and panels hosted by practitioners.
While language technologies have already made a major impact on the
core tasks in the translation profession, the field of interpreting
has not yet witnessed a fundamental paradigm shift on account of their
use. Against such a background, SAY-IT AGAIN seeks to fill in this gap
by allowing the discussion, the scientific comparison, and the mutual
enrichment of researchers and professionals working with
interpreting-related technologies. In this regard, SAY-IT AGAIN
addresses the development of interpreting-related tools, and the
experience interpreters have with these tools as well as the
development of machine interpreting engines, incorporating (or not)
human expertise. The workshop also offers a discussion forum and
publishing opportunity for interpreters and for researchers and
developers working on interpreting-related technology and machine
interpreting.

INVITED SPEAKERS
We are also glad to announce the confirmed invited speakers for SAY-IT
AGAIN 2023:
• Prof. Bart Defrancq: Associate Professor in Interpreting and
Translation at Ghent University (Belgium)
• Prof. Enrique Alba Torres: Professor of Computer Languages and
Systems at University of Malaga. Member of the European Research
Council Executive Agency (ERCEA)
• Dr. Eva Leitner: CEO at MSS Language Solutions (Austria)
• Dr. Fred Blain: Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence at
Tilburg University (The Netherlands)

Additional invited speakers will be announced on the web and in the
second and further calls for papers.

Call for Papers:

SUBMISSIONS
The international workshop invites submissions reporting original
unpublished work in the form of short papers (SP). Short papers should
not exceed 7 pages excluding references; they should be minimum 5
pages long. Short papers should follow the template provided in
Submissions. The accepted short papers will be published as
e-proceedings with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and will be also
available at the time of the workshop. SPs must be written in English.
The deadline for SP submissions is 12th October 2023. SPs can be
submitted via the following link: https://lexytrad.es/SAYITAGAIN2023/
. Authors will be notified of acceptance/non-acceptance on 25th
October 2023.
In addition, a call for follow-up papers will be announced after the
workshop, where participants in SAY-IT AGAIN 2023 will have the chance
to submit full-length papers based on their research. These
full-length papers will be published as peer-reviewed chapters
(together with a selection of papers from the previous edition) in a
SPI-Q1 book.

TOPICS
We invite short papers on the following four main themes, however,
submissions on related topics will also be considered. Both
theoretical ideas and practical applications are welcome.

Existing methods and resources:
• Latest advances in interpreting technologies (CAI tools, machine
interpreting, remote interpreting, etc.),
• Electronic resources for interpreters,
• NLP for interpreting,
• AI for interpreting,
• Corpus annotation for interpreting-related technology,
• Crowdsourcing techniques for creating resources for interpreting,
User needs:
• Analysis of interpreters’ needs in terms of interpreting-related
technology,
• User requirements for interpreting-related tools,
• Incorporating human knowledge into interpreting-related technology,
• What existing interpreters’ tools do not offer (yet),
• Technology impact on interpreters: cognitive issues,
Evaluation:
• (Human) evaluation of interpreting-related technology,
• Crowdsourcing techniques for evaluating interpreting,
• ASR- and AI-enhanced tools: current technical limitations and
challenges,
• Evaluation of existing resources for interpreters,
• Human evaluation of machine interpreting,
Text, speech and hybrid modalities:
• Speech-to-text services,
• Speech translation/Speech-to-speech,
• Respeaking,
• SimConsec,
• Tablet interpreting,
Other:
• Position papers discussing how machine interpreting should be
improved to incorporate interpreters’ expertise,
• Interpreting-related technologies in the educational context,
• Interpreting-related technologies’ impact on the market,
• Comparison between human and machine interpreting,
• Changes in the interpreters’ professions in the new technology era
especially due to the latest developments in machine interpreting.

Besides the above topics, submissions from industry and practitioners
could also discuss the followings topics: distinctive work experience,
ongoing practical work, in-house procedures or software, in-house
processing pipelines, technology needs, managing an
interpreting-related (technology) company, interpreters in the
technology era, IP issues or any topic linked to their professional
activities in the field of (technology for) interpreting, etc.

REGISTRATION
Early-bird (until 29th October)
Late (from 30th October)
Attendees only
20€
30€
Participants
40€
60€

Registration is available through the following link (until full
capacity):
https://lexytrad.es/SAYITAGAIN2023/registration/

For further information, you can access SAY-IT AGAIN 2023’s official
website:
https://lexytrad.es/SAYITAGAIN2023/

The Organising Committee can also be contacted via email:
lexytrad at uma.es
More information on SAY-IT AGAIN 2023 will be released in successive
Call for Papers.



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