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. et al. (2025) 'Machine interpreting to achieve social and economic SDGs? A use case for refugee communication in Switzerland', in García Fernández, S. et al. (eds) Traducción y sostenibilidad cultural II: retos y nuevos escenarios. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, pp. 337–347. doi: 10.14201/0aq0373337347.
Other publications
- Gieshoff, A. C. et al. (2026) Einsatz von maschinellen Übersetzungstools im klinischen Kontext : Abschlussbericht der DigiTools-Studie. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-34975.
- Fuhrmann, B., Schuler, M. and Turra, M. (2024) Abschlussbericht des Innoscheck-Projekts Usability Studie ZHAW – mobile Sprachdokumentation im klinischen Umfeld. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-33498.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Lehr, C. et al. (2026) 'A comprehensive approach to promoting innovation and sustainability in multilingual communication : the Digilinguo project', in 9th International Conference on Public Service Interpreting and Translation (EXPERIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION IN PSIT), Madrid, Spain, 11-13 March 2026.
- Delorme Benites, A. et al. (2023) 'Machine translation for crisis communication', in VALS-ASLA Studientag: Angewandte Linguistik in Krisenzeiten, Zürich, Schweiz, 27. Januar 2023.