Translation in Transition 2024
Seventh edition will be held at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (Georgia) in September 23-25
About the conference
Background: The Translation in Transition series of conferences has established itself as a central meeting point for researchers in the field of empirical translation studies through previous editions in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona, Kent and Prague.
Objective: In its seventh installment, held at the Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi, it once again wants to be a forum of discussion for empirical research that is based on any kind of empirical methodology and that advances our knowledge in the fields of translation and interpreting. While the Batumi edition will be open to various topics within empirical translation studies, we also want to put special emphasis on two directions: low-resourced and less-researched language pairs, as well as an interplay between different methods and data types, e.g. combining product and process research.
Conference topics
We welcome contributions grounded in empirical approaches to studying both interlingual and intralingual translation (including interpreting) as well as theoretical and position papers on the following topics:
Empirical methods and models (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) or methods derived from computational linguistics and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to translation studies
Presentation of new resources for translation studies (spoken corpora, multimodal corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.)
Application of parallel corpora for contrastive linguistics
Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data
Detection and analysis of specific features of translation (translationese, interpretese, editese, machine translationese, post-editese, etc.) using parallel and comparable corpora
Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation/interpreting, e.g. variation driven through language contrasts, register/genre, expertise, mode, etc.
Empirical analysis of specialised translation, e.g. legal translation, medical translation, technical translation and others
Analysis of non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication
Cognitive and computational insights of variation in translation/interpreting and translationese/interpretese
Cognitive modeling of translation and interpreting processes, including cognitive load measurements
Translation and interpreting quality assessment and evaluation using corpora or experimental research
Translation/interpreting in specific settings: between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc.
The use of corpora in translator and/or interpreter training
Improving understanding of translation/ interpreting in the context of NLP
Computer-assisted translation and/or interpreting (CAT/CAI)
Machine translation (MT): analysis, evaluation, selection and preparation of data for MT, ‘machine translationese’
The official language of the conference is English.
Important dates
Conference abstract submission due: Feb 16, 2024 Feb 23, 2024 (extended!)
Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2024
Final abstract version due: April 29, 2024
Registration open: May 6, 2024
Early-bird registration: June 6, 2024
Conference date: September 23-25, 2024
Paper submission
Please submit your paper (in PDF format) through the open review system. All submissions must follow abstract submission instructions.
Organizers
The conference is organized by the Department of European Philology and Centre of Translation and Interdisciplinary Research, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi (Georgia) in cooperation with the Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication, University of Hildesheim (Germany).
Local organizing committee
Khatuna Beridze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)
Theona Beridze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)
Khatuna Diasamidze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)
Marina Giorgadze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)
Tamta Nagervadze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)
Program Chairs
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim)
Silvana Deilen (University of Hildesheim)
Scientific Committee
Eric Angelone (Kent State University)
Khatuna Beridze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University)
Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna)
Łucja Biel (University of Warsaw)
Mario Bisiada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)
Michael Carl (Kent State University)
Jean-Pierre Colson (Université catholique de Louvain)
Agnieszka Chmiel (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Oliver Czulo (Universität Leipzig)
Joke Daems (Ghent University)
Daria Dayter (Universität Basel)
Silvana Deilen (University of Hildesheim)
Gert De Sutter (Ghent University)
Bart Defrancq (Ghent University)
Chantal Gagnon (Université de Montréal)
Federico Gaspari (University of Naples "Federico II")
Sandra Halverson (University of Adger)
Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Universität Mainz)
Christian Hardmeier (IT University of Copenhagen)
Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo)
Felix Hoberg (Universität Leipzig)
Sylvia Jaki (University of Hildesheim)
Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Alina Karakanta (Universiteit Leiden)
Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University)
Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland)
Haidee Kotze (Utrecht University)
Ralph Krüger (TH Köln)
Maria Kunilovskaya (Saarland University)
Kerstin Kunz (Heidelberg University)
Marie-Pauline Krielke (Saarland University)
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim)
Marie-Aude Lefer (Université catholique de Louvain)
Krzysztof Łoboda (Jagiellonian University Kraków)
Rudy Loock (Université de Lille 3)
Josep Marco Borillo (Universitat Jaume I)
Katrin Menzel (Saarland University)
Olga Navrodnikova (Charles University in Prague)
Jean Nitzke (University of Adger)
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo)
Katharina Oster (University of Mainz)
Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste)
Koen Plevoets (Universiteit Gent)
Éric Poirier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
Maja Popović (Dublin City University)
Heike Przybyl (Saarland University)
Anke Radinger (University of Mainz)
Hanna Risku (Universität Wien)
Moritz Schaeffer (University of Mainz)
Tatiana Serbina (RWTH Aachen)
Elke Teich (Saarland University)
Antonio Toral (University of Groningen)
Mihaela Vela (Saarland University)
Bogusława Whyatt (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Contact:
All information about the conference is available on the website where all updates will also be posted.
Please use the following e-mail address to contact the organizers:
The members of the organizing committee are looking forward to welcoming you to Batumi!