The first IELD Conference 2021 was a big success! Thank you to all presenters, participants and contributors for making this event so memorable!
Please click here for an interesting article on German Easy Language and the conference (in German)
and here, for an interview with Prof. Silvia Hansen-Schirra on the topic (also in German).
Registration for the International Easy Language Day Conference (27-28 May 2021) is now open until May 15.
Please click here to register.
Ein Gastbeitrag von Jean Nitzke und Silvia Hansen-Schirra für Linguistische Werkstattberichte zum technologischen Wandel des Übersetzerberufs
Kommunikation auf der dunklen Seite der Macht?
Click here for the Interview with Prof. Dr. Silvia Hansen-Schirra on translation universals and cognitive translation studies.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to reschedule the Bootcamp to an online meeting, taking place on 7, 8 and 9 July 2020.
For more information, please click here.
We invite applications for the third MEMENTO boot-camp, which will take place in Germersheim over at least two weekends (8.2.-9.2.2020 and 29.2.2020 ) and one week from 4.7.-11.7.2020 at the TRA&CO Center in Germersheim in 2020.
Deadline for application is 7th January 2020.
For more information, click here.
On September 20th, the Tra&Co team held an eye-tracking workshop at the multidiciplinary conference "Klaara" on Easy-to-read language research in Helsinki. The workshop was especially aimed at dealing with the special challenges of the participant groups investigated in the context of Easy-to-read.
Some impressions of the conference and the eye-tracking workshop are documented in the news video in easy Finnish of the Finnish TV station Yle (starting at 1:37''):
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/selkouutiset/maanantai_2392019_tv/10984497
We are looking back at three wonderful days at the ICTIC 2019 in Germersheim.
Thanks to all participants for sharing their research and helping to find a way out of the box!
Our colleagues Anke Tardel and Silke Gutermuth visited the International Conference Media For All 8 in Stockholm and held a presentation on Cognitive Load in Multimodel and Multilingual Text Processing - The impact of automatic speech recognition in transcription processes. They presented results from an eye tracking study within the CompAsS project.
