International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting
Technology (HiT-IT 2023)
Naples, Italy, 7, 8 and 9 July 2023
http://hit-it-conference.org/
Second Call for Papers
The International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and
Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) will take place in Naples, Italy
between 7 and 9 July 2023. The conference will be preceded by tutorials
on 6 July 2023.
HiT-IT seeks to act as a meeting point for (and invites) researchers
working in translation and interpreting technologies, practicing
technology-minded translators and interpreters, companies and
freelancers providing services in translation and interpreting as well
as companies developing tools for translators and interpreters. In
addition to the accepted papers for presentation, HiT-IT will feature
invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels
hosted by practitioners.
Most of the existing conferences are either focused too much on the
automatic side of translation or concentrate largely on translators’
and interpreters’ professions. HiT-IT seeks to fill in this gap by
allowing the discussion, the scientific comparison, and the mutual
enrichment of professionals from both fields. HiT-IT 2023 addresses the
development of translation tools and the experience translators and
interpreters have with these tools as well as the development of
machine translation engines, incorporating human (translators and
interpreters’) expertise. The conference also offers a discussion forum
and publishing opportunity for professionals from the human translation
and interpreting fields (e.g. translators including subtitlers,
interpreters, respeakers, researchers in translation and interpreting
studies) and for researchers and developers working on translation and
interpreting technology and machine translation. The idea behind this
conference attendees to hear the other side’s position and to voice
their opinions on how to make translation technologies closer to what
would be accepted by large audiences, by incorporating human expertise
into them.
Conference topics
While we invite papers on the following four main themes, submissions
on any topic related to translation and interpreting technology and
natural language processing for translation and interpreting technology
will be considered. Both theoretical ideas and practical applications
are welcome. Position papers promoting new ideas, challenging the
current status of the fields and proposing how to take them forward are
also encouraged.
User needs:
- analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of
translation and interpreting technology
- user requirements for interpreting and translation tools
- incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting
technology
- what existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’
tools do not offer
- user requirements for electronic resources for translators and
interpreters
- translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and
the tools for translation and interpreting employed
Existing methods and resources:
- latest developments in translation and interpreting technology
- latest advances in (Neural) Machine Translation
- latest advances in Translation Memory systems- latest advances in
automatic post-editing
- electronic resources for translators and interpreters
- annotation of corpora for translation and interpreting technology
- crowdsourcing techniques for creating resources for translation and
interpreting
- latest advances in pre-editing and post-editing of machine
translation
- human-informed (semi-)automatic generation of interlingual subtitles
- technology for subtitling
- Machine Translation for literary texts
Evaluation:
- (human) evaluation of translation and interpreting technology
- crowdsourcing techniques for evaluating translation and interpreting
- evaluation of discourse and other linguistic phenomena in (machine)
translation and interpreting
- evaluation of existing resources for translators and interpreters
- human evaluation of neural machine translation
- automatic evaluation of neural machine translation
More:
- position papers discussing how machine translation should be improved
to incorporate translators’/interpreters’ expertise
- translation and interpreting technologies’ impact on the market
- comparison between human and machine translation
- changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new
technology era especially as a result of the latest developments in
Neural Machine Translation
Besides the above topics, submissions from industry and practitioners
could discuss: distinctive work experience, ongoing practical work, in-
house procedures or software, in-house processing pipelines, technology
needs, managing a translation (technology) company, interpreters in the
technology era, IP issues or any topic related to their professional
activities in the field of (technology for) translation and
interpreting, etc.
Submissions and publication
The conference invites the following types of submissions reporting
original unpublished work.
- User papers for industry and practitioners ranging between 2 and 4
pages (without references). References to related work are optional.
Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow
formatting requirements, references to related work are required):
- (academic) full papers: describing original completed research.
Allowed paper length: maximum 12 pages (without references).
- (academic) work-in-progress papers – describing work in progress,
late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other
types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed
paper length: maximum 7 pages (without references).
- (academic) demo papers - describing working systems. Allowed paper
length: maximum 5 pages (without references). In addition to the
papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the
conference.
The conference will not consider the submission and evaluation of
abstracts only.
Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme
Committee. Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START
conference management system. For further instructions please follow
the submission guidelines at the conference
website: http://hit-it-conference.org/
The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
made available online on the conference website. Authors of accepted
papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready
versions of their papers.
We plan to invite the authors of the best papers to submit extended
versions to a special issue of a prestigious journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: 10 April 2023
- Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2023
- Final version due: 10 June 2023
- Early fee deadline: 20 June 2023
- Conference dates: 7, 8 and 9 July 2023
- Tutorials: 6 July 2023
Keynote speakers
- Jochen Hummel (Coreon)
- Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University)
Invited tutorials
- Felix do Carmo (University of Surrey): Neural Machine Translation
Conference Chairs
- Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga)
- Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
- Johanna Monti (University of Naples L’Orientale)
- Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey)
Organising Committee
- Dayana Abuin Rios (University of Malaga)
- Khadija Ait Elqih (University of Naples l’Orientale)
- Anastasia Bezobrazova (University of Malaga)
- Meriem Boulekhoukh (University of Oran)
- Rocío Caro Quintana (University of Wolverhampton)
- Amal El Farhmat (University of Malaga)
- Lilit Kharatian (University of Malaga)
- Alfiya Khabibullina (University of Malaga)
- Nikolai Nikolov (INCOMA Ltd.)
- Daria Sokova (New Bulgarian University)
- Giulia Speranza (University of Naples l’Orientale)
Programme Committee
- Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada, Spain
- Anna Dimas Furtado, University of Galway, Ireland
- Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
- Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University, Germany
- Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
- Eleni Zisi, El-translations, Greece
- Eirini Zafeiridou, Welocalize, Greece
- Eithar Alangari, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
- Fred Blain, Tilburg University, Netherlands
- Federico Gaspari, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Irina Temnikova, Big Data for Smart Society Institute, Bulgaria
- Isabelle Tamba, Romanian Academy, Romania
- Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey, UK
- Joanna Druggan, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
- Marie Escribe, LanguageWire, Spain
- Judyta Mężyk, University of Silesia, Poland
- John Ortega, Northeastern University, United States of America
- Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Khetam Al Sharou, Imperial College, United Kingdom
- Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Manuel Herranz, Pangeanic, Spain
- Mihaela Vela, Saarland University, Germany
- Maarit Koponen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
- Maria Pia Di Buono, University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy
- Najeh Hajlaoui, European Commission, Belgium
- Núria Molines Galarza, Jaume I University, Spain
- Paola Ruffo, Ghent University, Belgium
- Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, University of Alcala, Spain
- Sara Ramos Pinto, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Sheila Castilho, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Italy
- Tímea Palotai-Torzsás, Juremy, Hungary
- Vilelmini Sosoni, Ionian University, Greece
- William D. Lewis, University of Washington, United States of Americ
- Yves Champollion, Wordfast, France
More Programme Committee members and further invited speakers and
tutorials will be announced in further calls and listed on the
conference’s webpage.
Organisation and sponsors
The forthcoming international conference HiT-It 2023 is jointly
organised by the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Surrey
(United Kingdom), the University of Malaga (Spain), and the University
of Naples L’Orientale, (Italy), and the Association of Computational
Linguistics (Bulgaria).
Pangeanic, El-Translations and Juremy are the official sponsors of the
conference.
Venue
The conference will take place at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo,
University of Naples
Further information and contact details
Registration for HiT-IT 2023 is now open. To register, please complete
the registration form.
The conference website (http://hit-it-conference.org/home) will be
updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email
[email protected].
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Constantin Orăsan
Professor of Language and Translation Technologies
Centre for Translation Studies | School of Literature and Languages
Personal page: https://dinel.org.uk
Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115
Library and Learning Centre,
University of Surrey,
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
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