Members of the Translation Unit at Imperial College attended
last week's Languages & the Media conference in Berlin.
Titled Translating in MultilingualCommunities, the event brought
together academics, industry professionals and other interested parties from
across the range of audiovisual translation. Attending from Imperial were
Lindsay Bywood, Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Arista Kuo, Emmanouela Patiniotaki
and Adriana Tortoriello.
Jorge Díaz-Cintas
chaired several panels, including one entitled The Client Side: Localisation, International Broadcasters and Content
Distributors.
Three PhD students presented papers:
Lindsay Bywood,
along with Yota Georgakopoulou, presented the results of the first evaluation of
the Sumat system, a statistical machine translation system
for subtitles.
Arista Kuo spoke on Myths
and Realities of Working as a Subtitler: Survey Results on Subtitlers’ Working
Conditions.
Emmanouela Patiniotaki presented a paper on Access to Online AV Educational Material.
(Lindsay Bywood)
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