HAITrans Research Group

Impact Awards 2023

UN Photo / Matija Potocnik InnoVent2 Conference Participants

Successful thesis defense

On 16 December, former HAITrans member Claudia Plieseis successfully defended her doctoral thesis.

HAITrans presents at Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference

PhD student and HAITrans member Raluca Chereji presented part of her doctoral research at the second annual Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference 2024.

IAMLADP UCG Training for Trainers

Two workshops were co-organised by Dragoș Ciobanu in the context of the IAMLADP Universities Contact Group on 13-14 March 2024.

HAITrans represented at CIOL Translators Day

On 15 March 2024, Claudia Wiesinger gave a talk at the Chartered Institute of Linguists’ (CIOL) Translators Day.

Doctoral project featured in UniVie IMPACT Award series

HAITrans member Claudia Wiesinger’s doctoral project was featured in the UniVie IMPACT Award series. Click to read more.

HAITrans present at Translating and the Computer 45

On behalf of HAITrans, Justus Brockmann presented findings from a survey on technology in institutional translation at TC45 in November 2023.

Two HAITrans projects win Impact Award 2023

HAITrans members Claudia Wiesinger and Raluca Chereji win 2023 Impact Awards for their doctoral projects

HAITrans invited to present at the UN Geneva InnoVent 2 Innovation in Conferencing Event

Imminent grant awarded to HAITrans project

Prof. Dragoș Ciobanu was awarded one of the five Imminent 2022 research grants

Machine Translation Training for UN Staff

Prof. Dragoș Ciobanu, together with the HAITrans Team and ZTW Senior Scientist Alina Secară provided a one-day training titled "Translation in the Era of Machine Translation and Post-Editing" to UN staff.

HAITrans contribute to EAMT 2022

HAITrans members presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation and contributed to the conference proceedings.

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HAITrans awarded Google Cloud research credits

HAITrans member Miguel Rios Gaona will investigate enhancing multilingual machine translation with terminology information. Click to read more

HAITrans - Human and Artificial Intelligence in Translation

HAITrans - Human and Artificial Intelligence in Translation - is a research group based in the University of Vienna Centre for Translation Studies. It investigates the behavioural and cognitive effects which technologies such as machine translation and automatic speech recognition and synthesis have on translators, as well as their impact on the profession, practice, training and society at large.

At present, the core research areas of the Vienna HAITrans Group are:

Effects of speech technologies (Speech to Text and Text to Speech) on translation, revision and post-editing machine translation (PEMT) tasks (R1)
Technology-supported translation, revision, and PEMT practices (R2)
(Translation) technology for accessibility (R3)
Translation technology didactics (R4)

In our qualitative and quantitative investigations we use data gathered via eye-tracking, questionnaires, focus groups, corpora, and translation environment tool metrics. We also collaborate with academic partners, international organisations, language service providers, dedicated professional associations and cultural-sector partners.