Research activities School of Applied Linguistics
The latest publications and projects from the School of Applied Linguistics.
Publications
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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.
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2021.
What about the teachers? : defining and developing translator educator competence.
In:
Former aux métiers de la traduction aujourd’hui et demain : Livret d'Abstracts.
#AFFUMT Conference : Translator training : From the present to the future, Grenoble (France), virtual, 8-9 April 2021.
AFFUMT.
pp.35.
Available from: https://affumt2020.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/LivretAbstracts_AFFUMT2021_V_3.pdf
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Krasselt, Julia; Dreesen, Philipp,
2021.
In:
Participation through Language: Actors, Practices, Ideologies. Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, 25-26 March 2021.
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2021.
Understanding the language of numbers : financial literacy as key to participate in economic life [paper].
In:
Participation through Language: Actors, Practices, Ideologies. Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, 25-26 March 2021.
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Dreesen, Philipp; Krasselt, Julia; Rothenhäusler, Klaus,
2021.
Hapaxe, Morpheme und Produktivität im COVID-19-Diskurs.
In:
Tagung Diskursmorphologie, Online, 18.-19. März 2021.
Projects
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Machine translation for academic texts
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Narrative research as an artistic intervention in the context of local politics and public authorities
The company is subject to change processes. And with it organizations, institutions and companies. The way we think, act and communicate is changing. How do we respond to these changes? How do we shape change? With which images, with which stories do we tell about ourselves? How do we give our social, our ...
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Linguistic and occupational therapy support for augmentative and alternative communication in young adults
Persons who are using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) often do not receive new communication devices after compulsory schooling, and they do not receive further speech therapy support. As young adults, they are at a threshold into an important stage of their life, and into vocational education or ...
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Machine translation literacy for academics
Objectives This project investigates the potential of neural machine translation (NMT) for academic texts (abstracts, papers...) for publication purposes. Initial situation and hypothesis Well-known issues with neural machine translation are text cohesion, (terminology) and "hedging" (hedge terms). This could, ...
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Establishing the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland (CEIS) as standard instrument for policy makers