Department of Translation, Communication and Technology

Institute for Translation and Interpreting, Heidelberg University

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Current research projects

Linguistics of Machine Translation and translation technologies

• MT of argumentative text: translating resources for non-linear discourse organisation structures
• Linguistic phenomena and terminology in MT: ontologies, phraseology, linguistic constructions

Resources, evaluation and optimisation of translation workflows

• Automated identification of MT errors in mission-critical areas: medical, technical, legal
• Task-based MT evaluation and error analysis (Machine Translation of specific task-oriented domains and text types, e.g., instruction manuals, argumentation, jokes; corpus-based linguistic construction analysis; methods for quantifying cognitive effort in understanding and correcting MT)
• Translation corpora and resource development for low-resourced languages and domains (morphosyntactic and lexical annotation, MT and automated error correction for automated creation of Machine Learning resources)

Applications

• Intelligent support for authorship in non-native language
• Next generation translation memories and hybrid MT (language-specific linguistic analysis, sub-tree matches, terminological injection, automated error analysis and error correction, multi-engine Machine Translation)