Empirical modelling of translation and interpreting
About this ebook
This publication addresses these issues from several perspectives: multi-method product- as well as process-based research may gain insights into translation as well as interpreting phenomena. These phenomena may include cognitive and organizational processes, procedures and strategies, competence and performance, translation properties and universals, etc. Empirical findings about the deeper structures of translation and interpreting will reduce the gap between translation and interpreting practice and model and theory building. Furthermore, the availability of more large-scale empirical testing triggers the development of models and theories concerning translation and interpreting phenomena and behavior based on quantifiable, replicable and transparent data.
About the author
Silvia Hansen-Schirra
Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Dipl.-Übers., Dr. phil., PD, is a full professor of English linguistics and translation studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germersheim, Germany. Her main research interests include specialized communication, text comprehensibility, post-editing, translation process and competence research. As fellow of the Gutenberg Research College she is the director of the Translation & Cognition (TRACO) Center in Germersheim and co-editor of the online book series "Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing".
Oliver CzuloOliver is a full professor of Translation Studies at the Institute for Applied Linguistics and Translatology of the University of Leipzig. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessor") for Translation-relevant Linguistics at the Translation Faculty at Mainz University. He attended Saarland University, where he received his diploma in computational linguistics and his PhD in machine translation. His thesis work focused on developing ways of automatically comparing verb valence between English and German using parallel corpora. During a one-year stay at ICSI at the University of California in Berkeley in 2011 and 2012, he worked with researchers in the FrameNet Project, who are building a lexical database based on frame semantic analyses. He is interested in how grammar and semantics interact in translation.
Sascha HofmannSascha Hofmann, Dipl.-Übers., Dr. phil., is Associate Professor for English Linguistics and Translation Studies at the FTSK at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His main research interests include general applied translation studies, translation process research, and all aspects of translator education. As member of the of the Translation & Cognition (TRACO) Center he is (together with Don Kiraly) principal researcher in the field of translation process related competence development.
