**Second Workshop on Modelling Translation: Translatology in the Digital
Age**
(MoTra-2023)
First Call for Papers
Submissions deadline: March 20, 2023
Workshop Day: May 22, 2023
Location: Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (hybrid format)
Website: https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/?s=motra
**Topic and Goals of the Workshop**
MoTra-2023 aims to promote interdisciplinary and computational
approaches to human translation, offering an opportunity for researchers
in empirical translation studies, computational and corpus linguistics,
NLP, cognitive science to exchange knowledge and methodological
expertise in modelling various aspects of translation. Along with
traditional research questions related to translationese, variation in
translation, translation quality assessment, we encourage submissions on
interpreting studies, multimodal translation, modelling translational
strategies from cognitive, semantic and pragmatic perspectives as well
as contributions presenting language resources for translation studies
and translation-related software. We are particularly interested in
forging a link between translation studies and machine translation and
invite research at the interface of these fields.
This event seeks to follow up on the investigations reported by the
previous edition of the workshop. The proceedings of MoTra-2021 covered
a wide range of topics in translatology enhancing the understanding of
*translationese*, i.e linguistic specificity of translations setting
them apart from non-translations in the target language and exploring
*variation in human translation*, including in contrast with machine
translation (https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.motra-1/
<https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.motra-1/>).
The contributions described computational and NLP methods to model
translation varieties (student/professional, human/machine,
written/spoken) and translation processes/solutions, especially around
particular items (translation problem triggers, discourse markers,
adjectives, polarity items), and reported the results of manual
linguistic analysis of modelling outcomes.
**The workshop invites submissions on relevant research topics,
including but not limited to:**
- Translation and translationese detection, source language
identification and quantitative analysis of translations
- NLP approaches to translationese
- Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation according to
context (domain, register, genre), mode and medium (spoken, written,
audio-visual), translator (professional, novice, crowd-sourced),
recipient (simplified language) etc.
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of translation models
- Research at the interface between translation studies and machine
translation
- Contextualized and multimodal translation analysis
- Computational semantics and pragmatics applied to translation studies
- Sentiment and emotion analysis of translations
- Human translation quality assessment and annotation
- Computational models of translation types such as communicative
translation, semantic translation, transcreation, intralingual
translation, etc.
- New corpora for translation studies, such as literary translation
corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, learner translator corpora, etc.
- Translation, post-editing, (error) annotation software
- Cognitive modelling of translation processes, including cognitive load
measurements and communication optimisation in translation
**Invited Speakers**
Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland)
**Program Committee**
Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna)
Mario Bisiada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Yuri Bizzoni (Aarhus University)
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)
Michael Carl (Kent State University)
Oliver Czulo (Leipzig University)
Cristina España i Bonet (Saarland University)
Alex Fraser (LMU Munich)
Alina Karakanta (University of Trento)
Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University)
Antoni Oliver (Open University of Catanlunya)
Maja Popovic (ADAPT Centre, DCU)
Moritz Schaeffer (University of Mainz)
Tatiana Serbina (RWTH Aachen University)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds)
Antonio Toral (University of Gröningen)
**Organizers’ Contacts**
Maria Kunilovskaya ([email protected])
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski ([email protected])
Elke Teich ([email protected])
**Important Dates**
- Monday, March 20, 2023: Workshop paper submission deadline
- Monday, April 17, 2023: Notification of acceptance
- Monday, May 1, 2023: Camera-ready workshop papers due
- Monday, May 22, 2023: The workshop day
**Paper Submission**
We invite submissions of three kinds:
- long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research,
including empirical evaluation of results, up to 8 pages without references;
- short papers on smaller, focused contributions, negative results,
surveys, or opinion pieces, up to 4 pages without references; and
- demonstration papers on software, systems, interfaces,
infrastructures, language resources, data collections, or annotations,
up to 4 pages without references.
Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will appear in the
NoDaLiDa 2023 proceedings, published as part of the NEALT Proceedings
Series and in the ACL Anthology.
Accepted papers will appear on the workshop website
(https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/?s=motra/), too.
All submissions should be anonymous and should follow the official
Nodalida 2023 LaTeX template (see
https://www.nodalida2023.fo/call-for-papers/). The ACL author guidelines
and anonymity rules apply.
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate
this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if
accepted to NoDALiDa 2023. At least one author of each accepted paper
must register to attend the workshop.
The submissions are planned through OpenReview. The link to the
submission page will appear in the Second Call for Papers.
To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or generally the
workshop’s scientific program, please email: Maria Kunilovskaya
[email protected]
The workshop will be held in a hybrid format in conjunction with the
NoDaLiDa Conference (https://www.nodalida2023.fo/) in Tórshavn, Faroe
Islands._______________________________________________
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