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Workshops on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) at Swansea University

May 29, 2019 at 9:00 am - May 30, 2019 at 5:00 pm

Swansea Translating and Interpreting Group is delighted to announce two 2-day workshops at Swansea University on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT) – part of the Open World Research Initiative: “Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community” – Translingual Strand, with additional support from Swansea’s Language Research Centre.

First Workshop: 25-26 January 2019
Keynote speaker Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Professor in Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, editor of Human Issues in Translation Technology (Routledge, 2017): “Corpora, Machines and Literary Translation. A Guided Tour”.

BOOKING NOW OPEN: Second Workshop: 29-30 May 2019
Keynote speaker Andy Way, Professor in Computing at Dublin City University, editor of Machine Translation journal, co-author of recent studies on Neural Machine Translation performance with literary texts. Title: tbc.

These workshops are co-funded by OWRI “Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community” – Translingual Strand, and Swansea University’s Language Research Centre, and are free to attend with advance booking. Academics, research students and practising translators are all welcome. No previous experience of computer-assisted methods is required.

Venue: Swansea University, Keir Hardie Building 149, College of Arts and Humanities, Sketty SA2 8PP

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May 29, 2019 at 9:00 am
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May 30, 2019 at 5:00 pm
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Swansea University, Keir Hardie Building 149, College of Arts and Humanities, Sketty SA2 8PP