Mattia Turra
Mattia Turra
ZHAW
School of Applied Linguistics
Institute of Multilingual Communication
Theaterstrasse 15c
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research assistant at the Human-Machine Communication professorship
Focus
Machine translation, NLP, multimodal communication
Experience
- Civilian Service (various assignments)
Federal Office for Civilian Service
02 / 2019 - 07 / 2025 - Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training in Software Engineering
Zurich University of Teacher Education
08 / 2014 - 08 / 2018
Education and Continuing education
Education
Applied Languages / Multimodal communication (GER, ENG, ITA)
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
09 / 2019 - 08 / 2022
Network
Membership of networks
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- digilinguo: Overcoming language barriers in public institutions / Team member / ongoing
- Use of machine translation apps in a clinical context / Team member / completed
- Usability Study ZHAW - mobile speech documentation in clinical contexts / Team member / completed
- Machine translation for crisis communication / Team member / completed
- Digital Literacy Skills in University Contexts / Team member / completed
Publications
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
Delorme Benites, A., Schaub-Torsello, R., Sager, D., & Turra, M. (2025). Machine interpreting to achieve social and economic SDGs? A use case for refugee communication in Switzerland. In S. García Fernández, B. Guerrero García, F. Placidi, M. Savchenkova, F. Gómez-Cáneba, & S. Schoer-Granado (Eds.), Traducción y sostenibilidad cultural II: retos y nuevos escenarios (pp. 337–347). Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. https://doi.org/10.14201/0aq0373337347
Other publications
- Gieshoff, A. C., Lehr, C., Hunziker Heeb, A., Turra, M., Williamson, J., Glass, P., & Subirats Kärkkäinen, L. (2026). Einsatz von maschinellen Übersetzungstools im klinischen Kontext : Abschlussbericht der DigiTools-Studie. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34975
- Fuhrmann, B., Schuler, M., & Turra, M. (2024). Abschlussbericht des Innoscheck-Projekts Usability Studie ZHAW – mobile Sprachdokumentation im klinischen Umfeld. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-33498
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Lehr, C., Gieshoff, A. C., Delorme Benites, A., Subirats Kärkkäinen, L., Turra, M., Asfar, A., & Schuler, M. (2026, March 12). A comprehensive approach to promoting innovation and sustainability in multilingual communication : the Digilinguo project. 9th International Conference on Public Service Interpreting and Translation (EXPERIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION IN PSIT), Madrid, Spain, 11-13 March 2026.
- Delorme Benites, A., Schaub-Torsello, R., Sager, D., Turra, M., & Eser Davolio, M. (2023, January 27). Machine translation for crisis communication. VALS-ASLA Studientag: Angewandte Linguistik in Krisenzeiten, Zürich, Schweiz, 27. Januar 2023.