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/
Third 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 post-editing and 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
- latest advances in 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.
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: 20 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
Alina Karakanta (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics): Automatic
subtitling
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
Khetam Al Sharou (University of Antwerp, Belgium and Imperial College,
United Kingdom)
Eithar Alangari (Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia)
Isabelle Andrieu (Translated, Italy)
Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Fred Blain (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Sheila Castilho (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Yves Champollion (Wordfast, France)
Jaleh Delfani (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Felix do Carmo (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Maria Pia Di Buono (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy)
Anna Dimas Furtado (University of Galway, Ireland)
Joanna Druggan (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
Marie Escribe (LanguageWire, Spain)
Federico Gaspari (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Amal Haddad Haddad (University of Granada, Spain)
Najeh Hajlaoui (European Commission, Belgium)
Manuel Herranz (Pangeanic, Spain)
Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Saarland University, Germany)
Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez (University of Alcala, Spain)
William D. Lewis (University of Washington, United States of America)
Judyta Mężyk (University of Silesia, Poland)
Núria Molines Galarza (Jaume I University, Spain)
Helen Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Joss Moorkens (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Elena Murgolo (Orbital14, Italy)
John Ortega (Northeastern University, United States of America)
Tímea Palotai-Torzsás (Juremy, Hungary)
Bianca Prandi (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Paola Ruffo (Ghent University, Belgium)
Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University, Greece)
Isabelle Tamba (Romanian Academy, Romania)
Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Antonio Toral (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Irina Temnikova (Big Data for Smart Society Institute, Bulgaria)
Eva Vanmassenhove (University of Tilburg, Netherlands)
Mihaela Vela (Saarland University, Germany)
Eleni Zisi (El-translations, Greece)
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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