Research activities School of Applied Linguistics
The latest publications and projects from the School of Applied Linguistics.
Publications
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Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine,
2022.
ELF density : extending ELF research to monological texts and speeches.
In:
13th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (online), 18-20 November 2022.
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Lehr, Caroline; Delorme Benites, Alice,
2022.
Core skills for new language industry profiles.
In:
Translating Europe Forum 2022, Brussels, Belgium, 9-11 November 2022.
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Mahlow, Cerstin; Piotrowski, Michael,
2022.
Academic writing and publishing beyond documents [paper].
In:
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering.
22nd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng '22), San José, USA, 20-23 September 2022.
New York:
Association for Computing Machinery.
pp. 12.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3558100.3563840
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Lehr, Caroline,
2022.
Translation studies, translation practices and emotion
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In:
Schiewer, Gesine Leonore; Altarriba, Jeanette; Bee, Chin Ng, eds.,
Language and emotion : an international handbook. Volume 2.
Berlin:
De Gruyter.
pp. 1298-1319.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670851-030
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Weber, Wibke; Lechner, Verena,
2022.
Historische Pandemien verstehen mit Data Stories.
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cTi7G8yVZC50LBesj2Vot
Projects
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Machine translation for crisis communication
This project investigates how machine translation services can help employees from administrations, NGOs and education to communicate with refugees. Providing public services to newly arrived refugees is a linguistic challenge: interprets are expensive and not available for all languages. Although machine ...
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The augmented interpreter- a pilot study on the usability of augmented reality in interpreting
Simultaneous interpreting depends on auditory and visual information. This pilot study investigates whether a seamless integration of visual and auditory information, achieved by displaying translations of technical terms on augmented reality glasses (AR), can lower cognitive load in interpreting. ...
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Experience the Consequences of Affective Computing - Immersive Science Fiction Prototyping for Responsible Innovation
Since future applications and consequences of Affective Computing are still vague and hard to imagine, we rely on Science Fiction (ScFi) Prototyping as a central method for our communication concept. A SciFi Prototype allows the target group, adolescents and young adults, to experience a fictional future life with ...
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Use of machine translation in healthcare
The current migration crises as well as the necessity to recruit healthcare staff from abroad highlight the need for healthcare providers to deal with language barriers in a way that is efficient and patient-centred. Machine translation (MT) opens up new possibilities for multilingual communication and is ...