This talk by Dr Tristan Miller (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria) is hosted by Linguistics and Modern Languages at the University of Huddersfield and will take place on Zoom. The talk will last no longer than an hour, including time for questions and discussion. Everyone is welcome, but you will need to register to receive the Zoom link. See you there!

“Human-computer interaction in pun translations”

Researchers are taking increasing interest in the role of language technology in literary and other creative translation, with an emphasis on error analysis/output evaluation and post-editing effort; other relevant topics include narrative discourse and linguistic richness. Some researchers have suggested integrating machine translation systems into literary translation workflows as a promising way forward. We follow this path by focusing on the role of new technologies in the creative translator's workflow—in our case, an interactive tool supporting the translation of puns. Such stylistic features are common in many creative text types, but are particularly challenging for human translators and have proved impervious to traditional machine translation.