LEXYTRAD

Research Group "Lexicography and Translation"

The online seminar “gApp: a text preprocessing system to improve the neural machine translation of discontinuous multiword expressions” will be given by Dr Hidalgo Ternero.

In this seminar, we present gApp, a text-preprocessing system designed for automatically detecting and converting discontinuous multiword expressions (MWEs) into their continuous forms so as to improve the performance of current neural machine translation systems (NMT) (see Hidalgo-Ternero, 2021, & Hidalgo-Ternero & Corpas Pastor, 2020, 2022a, 2022b & 2022c, among others). To test its effectiveness, several experiments with different NMT systems (DeepL, Google Translate and ModernMT, among others) and in different language directionalities (ES/FR/IT>EN/DE/ES/FR/IT/PT/ZH) have been carried out in order to verify to what extent gApp can enhance the performance of NMT systems under the challenge of phraseological discontinuity.

Date: 14 october 2022, 14:00-15:00 (CEST)

You can join this seminar using Microsoft Teams platform following this link.

The International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies will take place at the University of Malaga on May 12 and 13, 2022. You will find all the information on the following website: http://www.lexytrad.es/en/scientific-events/international-workshop-on-interpreting-technologies/

Registration for the workshop is free of charge and a certificate of attendance will be provided. In order to register, please go to the “Tickets International Workshop on Interpreting Technologies” section of the website. Select “1” and “Continue”. Then fill in your information and click on “Finalize”.

Please note that the event has limited seating and will be held in English. The use of masks is recommended.

A new article by Gloria Corpas Pastor entitled “You are driving me up the wall! A corpus-based study of a special class of resultative constructions” has been published. Follow this link to check it: https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6343

Prof. Gloria Corpas, in her role as head of the IUITLM, networking with a company interested in our research and attending presentations at Transfiere Forum. Thanks to OTRI for the support!

Prof Gloria Corpas Pastor has received a worldwide award from the ‘Caritas Institute of Higher Education’ of Hong Kong in the first edition of the ‘Saint Francis Prize in Techno-Humanities’. This prize highlights her innovative contributions to the area of translation technologies. More information can be found on the Caritas Institute of Higher Education website:

https://www.cihe.edu.hk/en/schools-and-offices/administrative-and-supporting-units/public-affairs-office/cihe-events/index_id_608.html

Several media have already published about it:

• DIARIO SUR: https://www.diariosur.es/universidad/uma-gloria-corpas-premio-internacional-traduccion-20220107115607-nt.html
• UMA: https://www.uma.es/sala-de-prensa/noticias/la-catedratica-gloria-corpas-reconocida-por-su-aportacion-al-area-de-las-tecnologias-de-la-traduccion/
• NOVACIENCIA: https://novaciencia.es/gloria-corpas-uma-reconocida-por-su-aportacion-a-las-tecnologias-de-la-traduccion/
• CONTRACRONICA: https://www.benalgo.es/noticias/la-catedratica-de-la-uma-gloria-corpas-reconocida-por-su-aportacion-a-las-tecnologias-de-la-traduccion.html

Within the framework of the European Union project REVALORISE+, “The Lighthouse Stories Report” (https://revalorise.eu/resources/), a series of stories told by promoters of the valorisation of the Social Sciences and Humanities, demonstrating the value and social impact of these disciplines, has been published on its website. Dr. Corpas has been chosen to tell her story, which is available at the following link: https://revalorise.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Gloria-Corpas-Pastor.pdf .