We are very grateful for the active participation and feedback of tetraTeTra participants, both during and after the event. Below you can find some pictures from the conference (special thanks to Eros Zanchetta and Motoko Ueyama!), as well as a small selection of participants’ comments (translated into English). “A very interesting conference. Speakers provided clear and useful information” “Great […]
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Remember that experiment we did on real-time subtitling? In this post we briefly reported how a student in her final year of interpreting studies, together with a recent graduate, tested the full potential of Dragon Naturally Speaking to produce speech-based real-time subtitling. Given the very positive results we obtained from that first try, we decided
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The tetraTeTra Conference will take place on Sept. 30 2016. Deadline for registration approaching. tetraTeTra Conference: early bird has now closed but there is still time to register (until 26 September 2016)! This year, our TeTra conference will open with four workshops held in parallel. Three software houses (MateCat, SDL Trados and TranslationQ/RevisionQ) will present their
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Registration is now open for the Technologies for Translation conference (TeTra), to be hosted at the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna (Forlì Campus) on 30 September 2016. With its fourth edition, the TeTra conference (tetraTeTra) returns to its origins: after an event specifically dedicated to free and open source software and collaborative
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On Monday 9 May 2016, one of our final-year students and a newly-graduated one tested a speech-based real-time subtitling tool at “Diego Fabbri” theatre in Forlì during a speech by Mario Capecchi, the Italian-born American molecular geneticist and Nobel Laureate (2007). Under the supervision of Claudia Lecci, our re-speakers operated directly from the theatre control room to
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As part of the collaboration between our Department and institutions of the Forlì area, the Chamber of Commerce of Forlì-Cesena is organising the workshop “Speaking of wine: L’inglese per il settore vitivinicolo”, addressed to wine producers who wish to boost their communicative competence in English and to easily engage in interaction with international customers and colleagues during fairs
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In 2016 we will be running a new training course: SDL Trados Studio 2015 for Project Managers. The workshop is split into “Part 1” and “Part 2” and will be held on: Friday 6th May 2016: SDL Trados Studio for Project Managers Part 1 Saturday 7th May 2016: SDL Trados Studio for Project Managers Part
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In February 2016 we are holding training courses on SDL’s new software: Trados Studio 2015. “Getting Started” level is split into “Part 1” and “Part 2” and will be held on: Friday 19th February 2016: SDL Trados Studio Getting Started Part 1 Saturday 20th February 2016: SDL Trados Studio Getting Started Part 2 For details
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On Saturday 19 December 2015, Silvia Bernardini and Adriano Ferraresi delivered a most unusual lecture to a very special audience. Thanks to Unijunior – the Italian version of European Children’s Universities – children aged 8 to 14 could attend a university lecture, and learn complex subjects in an engaging and entertaining way. During their presentation,
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We would like to thank Francesca Pezzoli and Riccardo Lausdei for their brilliant talk on game localisation held on Friday 4 December 2015. Game localisation is a dream career for graduates in specialised translation who are also fans of video games. According to our speakers, who have a long term experience in this field, the ideal candidate should have
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