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HiT-IT 2023

International Conference on Human-informed Translation and Interpreting Technology

PROGRAM

Friday, July 7, 2023

09:15–09:30Welcome and opening of the conference
 09:30–11:00 Keynote/Sponsor’s presentation
09:30–10:30Embracing LangOps: Mandatory in the Generative AI Era
Jochen Hummel, CEO Coreon
10:30–11:00sTMS Cloud – a Boutique Translation Project Management System by Mitra Translations
DIlyana Ilieva, CEO, Mitra Translations and Mina Ilieva, Managing Director, Mitra Translations
 11:30–13:00 Long presentations session 1: Machine translation
11:30–12:00Gender Bias in Machine Translation: A Statistical Evaluation of Google Translate and DeepL for English, Italian and German
Argentina Rescigno and Johanna Monti
12:00–12:30The Use of Translation Technologies and Translators’ Technological Competence in Saudi Arabia: Taking Stock of the past Seven Years
Abdelalah Alsolami, Maria Fernandez-Parra and Jun Yang
12:30–13:00An Exploration of Risk in the Use of MT in Healthcare Settings with Abbreviations as a Use Case
Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe, Constantin Orăsan and Félix do Carmo
 15:00–15:45 Sponsor’s presentation
15:00–15:45The Importance is Data Anonymization to Build Ethical AI
Manuel Herranz, CEO, Pangeanic
 15:45–16:25 Short presentations session 1: Machine translation
15:45–16:05Translations and Open Science: Exploring How Translation Technologies Can Support Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication
Susanna Fiorini, Arda Tezcan, Tom Vanallemeersch, Sara Szoc, Kristin Migdisi, Laurens Meeus and Lieve Macken
16:05–16:25Current Evidence of Post-editese: Differences between Post-edited Neural Machine Translation Output and Human Translation Revealed through Human Evaluation
Michael Farrell
 16:50–17:50 Long presentations session 2: Interpreting and respeaking
16:50–17:20Effective Editing in Respeaking: Unveiling Uniquely Human Skills in Live Speech-to-Text Transformation
Tomasz Korybski and Elena Davitti
17:20–17:50InterpreTutor: Using Large Language Models for Interpreter Assessment
Cihan Ünlü

Saturday, July 8, 2023

 09:30–10:30 Keynote presentation
09:30–10:30GenAI: the next step in the evolution of translation?
Constantin Orasan, University of Surrey, UK
 10:30–11:00 Long presentations session 2: ChatGPT
10:30–11:00Google Translate vs. ChatGPT: Can Non-language Professionals Trust Them for Specialized Translation?
Lucía Sanz-Valdivieso and Belén López-Arroyo
 11:30–12:00 Sponsor’s presentation
11:30–12:00Smart concordance search on EU terminology integrated into Trados Studio – the Juremy Web Plugin
Tímea Palotai-Torzsás, Co-Founder of Juremy.com
 12:00–13:00 Short presentations session 2: ChatGPT and translation
12:00–12:20Preliminary Evaluation of ChatGPT as a Machine Translation Engine and as an Automatic Post-editor of Raw Machine Translation Output from Other Machine Translation Engines
Michael Farrell
12:20–12:40Leveraging ChatGPT and Multilingual Knowledge Graph for Automatic Post-Editing
Min Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhao, Zhao Yanqing, Hao Yang, Xiaosong Qiao, Junhao Zhu, Wenbing Ma, Su Chang, Yilun Liu, Yinglu Li, Minghan Wang, Song Peng, shimin tao and Yanfei Jiang
12:40–13:00The Proper Place of Men and Machines - Updated
Elliott Macklovitch
 15:00–16:00 Keynote presentation
15:00–16:00Towards Responsible Machine Translation with Quality Estimation
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Aston University, UK
 16:00–16:30 Long presentations session 3: Machine translation
16:00–16:30Automatic Detection of Omission in Comparative Literary Translation
Amal Haddad Haddad
 17:00–18:20 Short presentations session 3: Interpreting
17:00–17:20Comparing Interface Designs to Improve RSI Platforms: In-sights from an Experimental Study
Muhammad Ahmed Saeed, Eloy Rodríguez González, Tomasz Korybski, Elena Davitti and Sabine Braun
17:20–17:40A New CAI-tool for RSI Interpreters’ Training: A Pilot Study
Valentina Baselli
17:40–18:00Introducing Speech Recognition in Non-live Subtitling to Enhance the Subtitler Experience (SUBX)
Zeljko Radic, Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti
18:00–18:20Towards a Decentralize Solution for Copyrights Management in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility
Iris Serrat-Roozen and Estella Oncins

Sunday, July 9, 2023

 09:30–10:30 Keynote presentation
09:30–10:30Live speech-to-text and machine translation tool for 24 languages – increasing accessibility of parliamentary debates
Marcin Feder, Head of the Speech-to-text Unit in DG TRAD
 10:30–11:00 Demo boaster session + demos
10:30–10:40Developing a Customisable Subtitling Tool Based on Academic Research and User Needs
Zeljko Radic
10:40–10:50A Pedagogical Platform for Spoken Post-editing (PE): The Integration of Speech Input into COPECO
Jeevanthi Liyanapathirana, Pierrette Bouillon and Jonathan Mutal
10:50–11:00National Language Technology Platform (NLTP): The Final Stage
Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Jānis Ziediņš, Marko Tadić, Željka Motika, Mark Fishel, Bjarni Barkarson, Claudia Borg, Keith Aquilina and Donatienne Spiteri
 11:30–13:00 Long presentations session 4: Machine translation
11:30–12:00Syntactic Quality Measurement in Machine Translation with Interlinguas
Alessandro Maisto and Javier Oliver
12:00–12:30Analysis and Evaluation of ChatGPT-induced HCI Shifts in the Digitalised Translation Process
Pilar Sánchez-Gijón and Leire Palenzuela-Badiola
12:30–13:00Language Complexity in Human and Machine Translation: A Preliminary Study
Gabor Recski and Fanni Kadar
 15:00–16:20 User papers and short presentations session 4: Machine translation
15:00–15:20Human Evaluation for Translation Quality of ChatGPT: A Preliminary Study
Zhao Yanqing, Min Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen, Yadong Deng, Aiju Geng, Limin Liu, Xiaoqin Liu, Wei Li, Yanfei Jiang, Hao Yang, Yu Han, shimin tao, Xiaochun Li, Ma Miaomiao, Zhaodi Zhang and Xie Ning
15:20–15:40Comparing MTQE Scores with Fuzzy Match Percentages from CAT Tools
Elena Murgolo
15:40–16:00Are Post-editese Features Really Universal?
Lise Volkart and Pierrette Bouillon
16:00–16:20Behind the Scenes: Freelance Translators Use of Machine Translation in the Medical Field
Magali Vidrequin
 16:50–17:50 Short presentations session 5: Low resource languages
16:50–17:10Workbench for Post-editing of Translations from English to Dravidian Languages
Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pattabhi R K Rao and Vijay Sundar Ram
17:10–17:30Processing English Verb Phrase Ellipsis for Conversational English-Hindi Machine Translation
Aniruddha Deshpande and Dipti Sharma
17:30–17:50Lost in Innu-Aimun Translation - Re-defining NMT for Indigenous Interpreters and Translators Needs
Antoine Cadotte, Anne-Christina Thernish and Fatiha Sadat