Workshop on MOdelling TRAnslation: Translatology in the Digital Age

Online City, Iceland, May 31 – June 2, 2021

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TOPIC AND GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP

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Translatology is the theoretical and practical study of translation. It combines insights from linguistics, the humanities, cognitive and computer science to understand the process of translating between languages and the particular features characterizing language in translation. Central concepts of contemporary translatology are translationese, linguistic patterns that tend to make translations more similar to each other than to texts originally written in their target language; and variation, which refers to the fact that different types of translations, such as written translations vs. interpreting, display systematic linguistic differences. (mehr …)

A new journal article by members of project C3 has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Psychology, Section Language Sciences, Research Topic: Rational Approaches in Language Science

„A rose by any other verb: The effect of expectations and word category on processing effort in situated sentence comprehension“ by Les Sikos, Katharina Stein, Maria Staudte

Read more: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13422/rational-approaches-in-language-science

In the first LangSci talk of Summer Semester 2021, Sebastian Padó from the University of Stuttgart will talk about „Words, Categories, and Entities“.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Zoom meeting.

A new journal article by members of project C3 has been published in PLOS ONE.

“Reevaluating pragmatic reasoning in language games” by Les Sikos, Noortje J. Venhuizen, Heiner Drenhaus, Matthew W. Crocker

On March 25, (14.00-18.30) Roland Bennewitz, the Ombudsperson of the INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials will hold a seminar on „Good Scientific Practice and Communication“.

Abstract:
In this seminar we will discuss the foundations of good scientific practice. We will attempt to link the respective guidelines of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with our personal experiences. What are the rules for scientific work and what is scientific misconduct? A key to good scientific practice is good communication. We will discuss general strategies for successful discussions and identify partners such as the Ombudsperson. The seminar will be held online and include discussions. Participants are therefore expected to join from an environment which allows for active participation and to switch on microphones and cameras.

Roland Bennewitz works at the INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken and is professor for experimental physics at Saarland University. He has acted as Ombudsperson for good scientific practice for many years.

A new journal article by members of project B3 has been published in PLOS ONE.

“Modeling the predictive potential of extralinguistic context with script knowledge: The case of fragments” by Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Ingo Reich

A manuscript by members of Project B1 has been published in Frontiers in Communication, Section Language Sciences, Research Topic: Rational Approaches in Language Science

“Less is more/more diverse: On the communicative utility of linguistic conventionalization” by Elke Teich, Peter Fankhauser, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Yuri Bizzoni

Read more: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13422/rational-approaches-in-language-science

A new journal article by the members of project A1 has been published in Frontiers in Psychology, Section Language Sciences, Research Topic: Rational Approaches in Language Science

„Neurobehavioral Correlates of Surprisal in Language Comprehension: A Neurocomputational Model“ by Harm Brouwer, Francesca Delogu, Noortje J. Venhuizen, Matthew W. Crocker

Read more: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13422/rational-approaches-in-language-science

Many Congratulations to Jörg Hoffmann (Project A7)! He has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his outstanding research contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Read the full article here.