34.3374, Calls: New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024)

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Subject: 34.3374, Calls: New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024)

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Date: 10-Nov-2023
From: Tharindu Ranasinghe [t.ranasinghe at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024)


Full Title: New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024)
Short Title: NeTTT

Date: 04-Jul-2024 - 07-Jul-2024
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Contact Person: Tharindu Ranasinghe
Meeting Email: t.ranasinghe at aston.ac.uk
Web Site: https://nettt-conference.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

The second edition of the forthcoming International Conference ‘New
Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) will take place in
Varna, Bulgaria, 4-7 July 2024.

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. NeTTT’2024 invites all
professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present
the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who
would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations
and new ventures.

The conference will take the form of presentations (peer-reviewed
research and user presentations, keynote speeches), and posters; it
will also feature panel discussions. The accepted papers will be
published as open-access conference e-proceedings.

Call for Papers:

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’
(NeTTT’2024)

Varna, Bulgaria, 4-7 July 2024

The conference

The second edition of the forthcoming International Conference ‘New
Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) will take place in
Varna, Bulgaria, 4-7 July 2024.

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. NeTTT’2024 invites all
professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present
the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who
would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations
and new ventures.

The conference will take the form of presentations (peer-reviewed
research and user presentations, keynote speeches), and posters; it
will also feature panel discussions. The accepted papers will be
published as open-access conference e-proceedings.


Conference topics

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".

The conference topics include but are not limited to:

CAT tools

-       Translation Memory (TM) systems
-       NLP and MT for translation memory systems
-       Terminology extraction tools
-       Localisation tools

Machine Translation

-       Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation
-       MT for under-resourced languages
-       MT with low computing resources
-       Multimodal MT
-       Integration of MT in TM systems
-       Resources for MT

Technologies for MT deployment

-       MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results
-       Human evaluations of MT output
-       Evaluating MT in a real-world setting
-       Quality estimation for MT
-       Domain adaptation


Translation Studies

-       Corpus-based studies applied to translation
-       Corpora and resources for translation
-       Translationese
-       Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation

Interpreting studies

-       Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting
-       Corpora and resources for interpreting
-       Interpretationese
-       Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology
applications
-       Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting

Interpreting technology

-       Machine interpreting
-       Computer-aided interpreting
-       NLP for dialogue interpreting
-       Development of NLP based applications for communication in
public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency
services)

Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting

-       MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts
-       MT for social media and real-time conversations
-       Sign language recognition and translation

Subtitling

-       NLP and MT for subtitling
-       Latest technology for subtitling

User needs

-       Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of
translation and interpreting technology
-       User requirements for interpreting and translation tools
-       Incorporating human knowledge into translation and
interpreting technology
-       What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and
interpreters’ tools do not offer
-       User requirements for electronic resources for translators and
interpreters
-       Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations
and the tools for translation and interpreting employed

The business of translation and interpreting

-       Translation workflow and management
-       Technology adoption by translators and industry
-       Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider
company



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