Prof. Dr. Alice Delorme Benites

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Head of the Institute for Translation and Interpreting
• Professor of Human-machine-communication

Focus

• Human-Machine Communication
• Machine Translation Literacy

Network

Membership of networks

• ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5254-4988

Social media

• LinkedIn
• TedX Talk (YouTube)

Media presence

• SRF article in German: Fördern ChatGPT und Co. die Gleichheit in der Gesellschaft? (19.05.2024)
• TedX Talk

Projects

• Digital Literacy Skills in University Contexts (DigLit) / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Übersetzungsapps für Pflegekräfte aus dem Ausland / Project leader / Project completed
• Machine translation for crisis communication / Project leader / Project completed
• Machine translation for academic texts / Project leader / Project completed
• Machine translation literacy for academics / Project leader / Project completed
• The Ergonomics of Socio-Technical Systems and Reflective Practice / Team member / Project completed
• Energy Discourses in Switzerland: How and whether multilingual sources (mis)represent monolingual discourses / Project leader / Project completed
• Energy discourses in Switzerland / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Garassino, Davide; Masia, Viviana; Brocca, Nicola; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2024.

  Politicians vs ChatGPT : a study of presuppositions in French and Italian political communication.

  AI-Linguistica : linguistic studies on ai-generated texts and discourses.

  1(1).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.62408/ai-ling.v1i1.5

• Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Haller, Mara; Noghrechi, Hasti; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2023.

  “I looked it up in DeepL” : machine translation and digital tools in the language classroom.

  Studie e Richerche: Human Translation and Natural Language Processing Towards a New Consensus?.

  35, pp. 81-96.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-762-3/006

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2023.

  A new role for translators and trainers: MT literacy consultants.

  The Interpreter and Translator Trainer.

  17(3), pp. 393-411.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2023.2237328

• Klimova, Blanka; Pikhart, Marcel; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline; Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina,

  2022.

  Neural machine translation in foreign language teaching and learning: a systematic review.

  Education and Information Technologies.

  28(1), pp. 663-682.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11194-2

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Neural machine translation and language teaching : possible implications for the CEFR.

  Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée.

  2021(114), pp. 47-66.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-1030137

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Pescia De Lellis, Lorenza,

  2021.

  Discours énergétique public et multilinguisme : une analyse comparative du français et de l'italien aux niveaux local et national en Suisse.

  Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée.

  1(No spécial 2021), pp. 187-212.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23021

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2021.

  Peut-on traduire l'identité? : de la différence entre textes traduits et textes originaux en Suisse romande.

  Travaux Neuchâtelois de Linguistique.

  2021(74), pp. 147-166.

  Available from: http://www.unine.ch/files/live/sites/tranel/files/Tranel/74/147-166_Delorme_def.pdf

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2019.

  La Vieille dame se met au numérique : un exemple de classe inversée à l’université.

  Synergies France.

  2018(12), pp. 99-116.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5016

• Benites, Fernando; Delorme Benites, Alice; Anson, Chris M.,

  2023.

  Automated text generation and summarization for academic writing

  .

  In:

  Kruse, Otto; Rapp, Christian; Anson, Chris; Benetos, Kalliopi; Cotos, Elena; Devitt, Ann; Shibani, Antonette, eds.,

  Digital writing technologies in higher education.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 279-301.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36033-6_18

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2023.

  De l'apprenant.e-élève à l'apprenant.e chercheur.se : vers un apprentissage par la recherche sur corpus

  .

  In:

  Duffé Montalván, Aura Luz; Drouet, Griselda; ar Rouz, David, eds.,

  L'apprenant dans l'enseignement et dans l'apprentissage des langues.

  Louvain-La-Neuve:

  EME Éditions.

  pp. 131-144.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  Mehrsprachigkeit und Technologie : Who's lost in translation?

  .

  In:

  ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik, ed.,

  Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe.

  Berlin:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 118-132.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748796

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2019.

  La grammaire dans le bon sens? : intégrer l’usage et la contrastivité dans un cours de grammaire pour étudiants‐traducteurs

  .

  In:

  Berré, Michel; Costa, Béatrice; Kefer, Adrien; Letawe, Céline; Reuter, Hedwig; Vanderbauwhede, Gudrun, eds.,

  La formation grammaticale du traducteur.

  Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex:

  Presses universitaires du Septentrion.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2018.

  Das Potenzial der Konstruktionsgrammatik für die Übersetzungswissenschaft am Beispiel von Substantivkomposita

  .

  In:

  Erfurt, Jürgen; De Knop, Sabine, eds.,

  Konstruktionsgrammatik und Mehrsprachigkeit.

  Duisburg:

  Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr.

  pp. 173-193.

  Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie (OBST) ; 94.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2017.

  La grammaire de constructions : un atout pour la formation du traducteur?

  .

  In:

  Perrin, Daniel; Kleinberger, Ulla, eds.,

  Doing applied linguistics : enabling transdisciplinary communication.

  Berlin:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 60-70.

  De Gruyter Collection ; 1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110496604-008

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2021.

  Machine translation literacy : a panorama of practices at Swiss universities and implications for language teaching [paper].

  In:

  Zoghlami, Naouel; Brudermann, Cédric; Sarré, Cedric; Grosbois, Muriel; Bradley, Linda; Thouësny, Sylvie, eds.,

  CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021.

  EUROCALL 2021 : CALL & Professionalisation, Paris (online), 25-27 August 2021.

  Research-publishing.net.

  pp. 80-87.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1313

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Benites, Fernando,

  2021.

  Neural machine translation in academic contexts [poster].

  In:

  Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2021, Online, 14-16 June 2021.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22677

• Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Summers, Elana; Delorme Benites, Alice; Noghrechi, Hasti; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2022.

  Tackling the elephant in the room : introducing MT literacy in a Swiss language centre [paper].

  In:

  XVII CercleS International Conference "The Future of Language Education in an Increasingly Digital World: Embracing Change", Porto, Portugal, 15-17 September 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Zavgorodnia, Larysa,

  2022.

  La traduction automatique pour les cas d'urgence : un guide pour la communication français-ukrainien-russe.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24800

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2022.

  Maschinelle Übersetzung (MT) für den Notfall : Ratgeber zum Einsatz von MT Tools für die Kommunikation mit Flüchtlingen aus der Ukraine.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24715

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2021.

  Maschinelle Übersetzung für akademische Texte.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22301

• Lehr, Caroline; Kramer, Iris; Delorme Benites, Alice; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine; Hunziker Heeb, Andrea; Sager, Daniela,

  2023.

  Übersetzungsapps für Pflegende aus dem Ausland : Bedarf – Potenzial – Risiken.

  In:

  Schwerpunkt Angewandte Gerontologie: Mehr Kraft für die Pflege - Massnahmen gegen den Personalmangel, ZHAW Hochschulbibliothek, Winterthur, Schweiz, 7. Dezember 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2023.

  Wenn die Künstliche Intelligenz die Schulbank drückt : Einblicke in die Funktionsweise, Potenziale und Gefahren von KI im Fremdsprachenunterricht.

  In:

  Internationale Delegiertenkonferenz IDK «Mensch und Maschine beim Deutschlehren und -lernen: ein Wechselverhältnis», Winterthur, Schweiz, 14.-17. August 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

  2023.

  La traduction automatique en classe de langue : comment nos étudiant-es l’utilisent et comment pouvons-nous la prendre en compte?.

  In:

  Xème colloque international de l’ADCUEFE – CAMPUS FLE (Association des Directeurs des Centres Universitaires d’Études Françaises pour Étrangers), Lyon, France, 21-23 juin 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

  2023.

  La traduction automatique neuronale au service de l’apprentissage des langues?.

  In:

  Xème colloque international de l’ADCUEFE – CAMPUS FLE (Association des Directeurs des Centres Universitaires d’Études Françaises pour Étrangers), Lyon, France, 21-23 juin 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

  2023.

  Is AI to language learning what the calculator is to maths?.

  In:

  International Conference and Teacher Training Conference: The Wider Implications of Machine Translation, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 15-16 June 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara,

  2023.

  Machine translation literacy for academic writing.

  In:

  12th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Winterthur, Switzerland, 5-7 June 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Steele, Elizabeth; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline,

  2023.

  What we (all) do in the shadows : language learning in the era of machine translation.

  In:

  3rd International Conference ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (LITHME), Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 15-16 May 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2023.

  Mehrsprachige Schreibprozesse unter Verwendung künstlicher Intelligenz : welche Möglichkeiten eröffnet neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung? Welche Risiken birgt sie?.

  In:

  Schweizer Schreibtag: «Schreiben im mehrsprachigen Kontext», Basel, Schweiz, 29. April 2023.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Schaub-Torsello, Romina; Sager, Daniela; Turra, Mattia; Eser Davolio, Miryam,

  2023.

  Machine translation for crisis communication.

  In:

  VALS-ASLA Studientag: Angewandte Linguistik in Krisenzeiten, Zürich, Schweiz, 27. Januar 2023.

• Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2022.

  Core skills for new language industry profiles.

  In:

  Translating Europe Forum 2022, Brussels, Belgium, 9-11 November 2022.

• Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Haller, Mara; Lehr, Caroline; Noghrechi, Hasti; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2022.

  Développer une approche raisonnée de la traduction automatique dans les hautes écoles suisses.

  In:

  12e Journée de Linguistique Suisse, Lausanne, Suisse, 7 Novembre 2022.

• Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli, Sara; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2022.

  Maschinelle Übersetzung und automatische Textgenerierung : was ist wichtig für den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz in der Lehre?.

  In:

  Swissuniversities Netzwerktreffen: Innovation in der Lehre, Olten, Schweiz, 28. Oktober 2022.

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2022.

  Exploring the role of MT in science news flows.

  In:

  10th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST22), Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Rossi, Caroline; Biros, Camille,

  2022.

  Translation scholars and machine translation users : can we speak the same language?.

  In:

  10th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST22), Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Machine translation literacy für den DaF/DaZ-Unterricht : Chancen und Herausforderungen.

  In:

  Ledafis Jahrestagung, Basel, 6.-7. Mai 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth; Franciello, Laura,

  2022.

  I looked it up in DeepL : online dictionaries and online machine translation.

  In:

  Tralogy3 : Tralogy: Human translation and natural language processing: Forging a new consensus?, Paris, France, 7-8 April 2022.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Steele, Elizabeth; Cotelli, Sara; Lehr, Caroline,

  2022.

  Let’s talk about MT : raising awareness in Swiss universities.

  In:

  #TQ2022 : Traduction & Qualité, « Comment enseigner (avec) la traduction automatique ? », online, 28 January 2022.

  Available from: https://webtv.univ-lille.fr/video/11745/-journee-d%E2%80%99etudes-%C2%ABtraduction-qualite-%C2%BB-maureen-ehrensberger-dow-alice-delorme-benites

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  Machine translation in Swiss universities : a first look into current practices.

  In:

  COST Action 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' online conference, 20 October 2021.

• Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2021.

  Machine translation in the language classroom : Swiss data.

  In:

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts.

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Winterthur (online), 2-3 September 2021.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 35.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/linguistik/institute-zentren/iued/upload/forschung/duo-colloquium-book-of-abstracts.pdf

• Lehr, Caroline; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2021.

  MT literacy as a means of agency and empowerment for translators.

  In:

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning : Book of Abstracts.

  The Łódź-ZHAW Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Winterthur (online), 2-3 September 2021.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  pp. 37.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/linguistik/institute-zentren/iued/upload/forschung/duo-colloquium-book-of-abstracts.pdf

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Lehr, Caroline; Steele, Elizabeth,

  2021.

  Machine translation literacy and language teaching .

  In:

  EUROCALL 2021 : CALL & Professionalisation, Paris (online), 25-27 August 2021.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2021.

  Vers une littéracie de la traduction automatique : l’aspect syntaxique.

  In:

  Colloque #AFFUMT : Former aux métiers de la traduction aujourd'hui et demain, En ligne, 8-9 avril 2021.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline,

  2021.

  NMT Literacy for future language professionals : changing perceptions.

  In:

  International conference on translation, interpreting and cognition : book of abstracts.

  3rd ICTIC, Forlì, Italy, 2 - 5 November 2021.

  Università di Bologna.

  pp. 16.

• Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2020.

  NMT literacy at the interface of AI and intercultural intelligence.

  In:

  CIUTI Conference 2020 Artificial Intelligence & Intercultural Intelligence. Actions and interactions in translation, interpreting and target contexts, Online, 9-11 December 2020.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Pescia De Lellis, Lorenza,

  2020.

  L’influence du volume des traductions en Suisse sur le discours : une étude de cas.

  In:

  Applied linguistics in the digital age : conference of the Swiss association for applied linguistics, Neuchâtel, 12-14 February 2020.

• Kavanagh, Morgan; Delorme Benites, Alice; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Massey, Gary; Schaub-Torsello, Romina,

  2020.

  Language and human factors : growing digital together.

  In:

  Applied linguistics in the digital age : conference of the Swiss association for applied linguistics, Neuchâtel, 12-14 February 2020.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2019.

  Contrastivité, syntaxe et traduction : une approche constructionnelle.

  In:

  XXIXe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes, Copenhague, Danemark, 1-6 juillet 2019.

• Alves, Fabio; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; García, Adolfo; Pagano, Adriana; Andermatt, Katrin; Delorme Benites, Alice; Ferreguetti, Kicila; Fonseca, Norma; Nunes, Leonardo; Teixeira, André; Schaub-Torsello, Romina,

  2019.

  Cognitive load of academic writing in L2 English vs. in L1 plus translation.

  In:

  2nd International Congress on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition Interdisciplinarity, Germersheim, Germany, 4 - 6 July 2019.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2019.

  De l'apprenant-élève à l'apprenant-chercheur.

  In:

  L'apprenant en langues et dans les métiers de la traduction : source d'interrogations et de perspectives, Rennes, France, 31 January - 2 February 2019.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2019.

  Segmentation as a key issue for translation students.

  In:

  Fourth International Conference on Research into Didactics of Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 june 2019.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2017.

  Accompagner l'autonomie grâce à des outils numériques.

  In:

  Accompagner et découvrir des pratiques pédagogiques en langues à l'université, Pôle d'Élaboration des Ressources Linguistiques, Paris, France, 15-18 November 2017.

• Delorme Benites, Alice,

  2017.

  La Grammaire dans le bon sens?.

  In:

  Colloque International: Quelle formation grammaticale pour de futurs traducteurs? Mons, Belgique, 9-10 Mars 2017.

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