Tutorials

Jorge Díaz-Cintas

Centre for Translation Studies (CenTraS), University College London

Teaching Subtitling on the Cloud
After a brief introduction to the practice of subtitling from a pedagogical perspective, this workshop embarks on a discussion of the affordances offered by cloud-based ecosystems, highlighting the main similarities and differences vis-à-vis traditional software programs. The workshop will give you an opportunity to familiarise yourself with the main functions of the OOONA Tools, a set of online professional tools that allow users to perform all the subtitling and captioning tasks that are typical in the industry, such as spotting, originating, reviewing and hardcoding. You will also gain an insight into how machine translation is being integrated into these environments and how the task of postediting subtitles can be exploited in the classroom. The changes in industry workflows, which are being instigated by the migration to the cloud, will also be discussed and some time will be left at the end for questions and answers.

Length: 2.5 hours
Date: Thursday, 7th July @ 9:00

Ricardo Muñoz

Professor in the Department of Interpreting & Translation of the University of Bologna, Director of the Laboratory for Multilectal Mediated Communication & Cognition (MC2 Lab)

Keylogging whole translation  processes
In the last decade, keylogging was demoted from its role as possibly the main data collection tool in the empirical research of written communication to become merely a support to complement other data gathering tools, such as eye tracking. This may have been due to the technical limitations of the keyloggers of the time, the restricted views on analyzing their output, or simply the hype of other tools that overtime turned out to be less accurate (technical problems) and informative (doubts on the eye-mind hypothesis).

Now we have new keyloggers, such as Inputlog (Leijten & Van Waes 2013) that will record everything done on the keyboard and the mouse. With some adjustments, such new keyloggres may be used not only to study writing and translating processes, but also revisions, information search and managament, and other tasks and subtasks that also support oral forms of multilectal mediated communication (term search in interpreting, corrections in respeaking, etc). New ways to approach the study of their output may lead to groundbreaking findings about the behavior of people communicating, by distinguishing intentional from involuntary pauses, categorizing them according to their length, and chunking both TTs and STs in ways that might shed light on unchartered territories.

This hands-on workshop will focus on using a keylogging (using Inputlog) to study full logs of naturalistic tasks, and then cleaning data (illustrated with the Task Segment Framework, Muñoz & Apfelthaler, in preparation) as examples of their great potential of this excellent, uninvasive, data-collection tool.

Length: 2 hours
Date: Thursday, 7th July @ 12:00

Anna Zaretskaya

TransPerfect

Machine Translation Post-editing for Media and Subtitles

Machine translation post-editing has been around for a while now, it is now an established part of university curriculums on translation studies. As technology evolves, the meaning of the word “post-editing” is changing too. What does it mean to post-edit today, in the context of all the tools available for translators? How will our way of working change in 5, 10 years? Will post-editing be just the default way of translating? In this tutorial on post-editing we will discuss the topics above, as well as make an overview of different MT-related tools currently available for translators. It will include a practical exercise where participants will see different approaches to post-editing based on the final goal, post-editing type and desired translation quality.

Length: 2 hours
Date: Thursday, 7th July @ 15:00