Mattia Turra

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research assistant in the Human-Machine Communication professorship

www.zhaw.ch/de/linguistik/forschung/mensch-maschine-kommunikation/

Expertise and research interests

Multimodal communication, machine translation, easy language, accessible communication, Python, HTML5, JavaScript

Educational background

2014-2018: Federal Vocational Baccalaureate at the Berufsbildungsschule Winterthur
2019-2022: Bachelor of Arts in Applied Languages (Specialisation Multimodal Communication & Translation) at the ZHAW

Professional milestones

2014-2018: Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training in Software Development at the Zurich University of Teacher Education
2019-today: Several civilian service assignments (allrounder in a public school and a retirement home, IT support, bat caregiver)

Membership of networks

Digital Futures Lab

Projects

• Machine translation for crisis communication / Team member / Project ongoing
• Digital Literacy Skills in University Contexts (DigLit) / Team member / Project ongoing

Publications

• 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.

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