Sergi Alvarez-Vidal
@salvarezvid.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researching on machine translation
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It was such a pleasure to discuss this topic with colleagues at #UQ and I look forward to continuing the conversation!
Thanks so much @bowkerl.bsky.social for the thoughtful presentation at this seminar: How far can translation technologies take us?
A great turnout from various disciplines and very productive discussion.
At translatE we look forward to further developing collaboration!
#languagebarriers
A great turnout from various disciplines and very productive discussion.
At translatE we look forward to further developing collaboration!
#languagebarriers
March 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It was such a pleasure to discuss this topic with colleagues at #UQ and I look forward to continuing the conversation!
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I look forward to working with the JB team and to welcoming submissions on works related to #DigitalTranslation
🎉 We are very pleased to announce that Lynne Bowker @bowkerl.bsky.social has taken over editorship of our journal Digital Translation from Minako O'Hagan & Julie McDonough Dolmaya.
🤝 Welcome on board, Lynne, and thanks a million for your long-term commitment, Minako and Julie! 🙏
#digitaltranslation
🤝 Welcome on board, Lynne, and thanks a million for your long-term commitment, Minako and Julie! 🙏
#digitaltranslation
March 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I look forward to working with the JB team and to welcoming submissions on works related to #DigitalTranslation
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"All of human culture is being ingested into these #AI models for the profit of a few technology companies."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft | Toby Walsh
Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heist
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"All of human culture is being ingested into these #AI models for the profit of a few technology companies."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Huge shoutout to colleagues at Google & Unbabel for extending our WMT24 testset to 55 languages in four domains, this is game changer! 🚀
I really hope it puts the final nail in the coffin of FLORES or WMT14. The field is evolving, legacy testsets can't show your progress
arxiv.org/abs/2502.124...
I really hope it puts the final nail in the coffin of FLORES or WMT14. The field is evolving, legacy testsets can't show your progress
arxiv.org/abs/2502.124...
WMT24++: Expanding the Language Coverage of WMT24 to 55 Languages & Dialects
As large language models (LLM) become more and more capable in languages other than English, it is important to collect benchmark datasets in order to evaluate their multilingual performance, includin...
arxiv.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Huge shoutout to colleagues at Google & Unbabel for extending our WMT24 testset to 55 languages in four domains, this is game changer! 🚀
I really hope it puts the final nail in the coffin of FLORES or WMT14. The field is evolving, legacy testsets can't show your progress
arxiv.org/abs/2502.124...
I really hope it puts the final nail in the coffin of FLORES or WMT14. The field is evolving, legacy testsets can't show your progress
arxiv.org/abs/2502.124...
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Excited to be traveling to Estonia for the 1st time to give a keynote @nodalida.bsky.social. I'll talk about using NNs to study language evolution & acquisition.
A teaser: It won't be about LLMs 🙃
Also I've just moved from X, so this was my very first post... Pls help out by connecting with me!
A teaser: It won't be about LLMs 🙃
Also I've just moved from X, so this was my very first post... Pls help out by connecting with me!
March 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Excited to be traveling to Estonia for the 1st time to give a keynote @nodalida.bsky.social. I'll talk about using NNs to study language evolution & acquisition.
A teaser: It won't be about LLMs 🙃
Also I've just moved from X, so this was my very first post... Pls help out by connecting with me!
A teaser: It won't be about LLMs 🙃
Also I've just moved from X, so this was my very first post... Pls help out by connecting with me!
We have begun a wonderful 3-day journey at @unesco.org headquarters in Paris packed with talks about minority languages and language technologies, and how can we focus of communities to benefit from technological developments. #LT4All
February 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We have begun a wonderful 3-day journey at @unesco.org headquarters in Paris packed with talks about minority languages and language technologies, and how can we focus of communities to benefit from technological developments. #LT4All
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A wonderful event coming up on 11th March with @dhansen.bsky.social of @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, who will join us to talk about translation technology and creative translation. Hosted by @delphinegrass.bsky.social. Find out more and sign up:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...
www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...
February 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A wonderful event coming up on 11th March with @dhansen.bsky.social of @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, who will join us to talk about translation technology and creative translation. Hosted by @delphinegrass.bsky.social. Find out more and sign up:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...
www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...
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DeepSeek contra ChatGPT: quina IA domina més la llengua catalana? www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cu...
DeepSeek contra ChatGPT: quina IA domina més la llengua catalana?
Berta Coll ha interrogat aquestes dues eines d'intel·ligència artificial per comparar les seves competències lingüístiques i culturals.
www.nuvol.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
DeepSeek contra ChatGPT: quina IA domina més la llengua catalana? www.nuvol.com/pantalles/cu...
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🎈 In case you missed it, the Call for Papers for #CTT2025, colocated with @mtsummit2025.bsky.social, is open! We encourage work on creative language and the interplay with language technology. This can be in translation, #MT, marketing, #subtitling, or anything else!
ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/calls
ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/calls
CTT 2025 - Calls
The workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT) aims to attract a broad range of attendees, such as researchers, educators, translators and industry stakeholders, to discuss the applica...
ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🎈 In case you missed it, the Call for Papers for #CTT2025, colocated with @mtsummit2025.bsky.social, is open! We encourage work on creative language and the interplay with language technology. This can be in translation, #MT, marketing, #subtitling, or anything else!
ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/calls
ctt2025.ccl.kuleuven.be/calls
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For those of you still finalising those submissions to the Research - Translators & Users track 😉 Looking forward to receiving your work!
📢 𝗠𝗧 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
📅 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗔𝗢𝗘
🔗 Further details: mtsummit2025.unige.ch
📝 𝗚𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗧!
#CfP #date
📅 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗔𝗢𝗘
🔗 Further details: mtsummit2025.unige.ch
📝 𝗚𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗧!
#CfP #date
January 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
For those of you still finalising those submissions to the Research - Translators & Users track 😉 Looking forward to receiving your work!
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📢 𝗠𝗧 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
📅 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗔𝗢𝗘
🔗 Further details: mtsummit2025.unige.ch
📝 𝗚𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗧!
#CfP #date
📅 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗔𝗢𝗘
🔗 Further details: mtsummit2025.unige.ch
📝 𝗚𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗧!
#CfP #date
January 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📢 𝗠𝗧 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
📅 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗔𝗢𝗘
🔗 Further details: mtsummit2025.unige.ch
📝 𝗚𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗧!
#CfP #date
📅 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟯:𝟱𝟵 𝗔𝗢𝗘
🔗 Further details: mtsummit2025.unige.ch
📝 𝗚𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗠𝗜𝗧!
#CfP #date
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Join our panel on IATIS 12 Dec. 10-12, 2025: "Advancing sustainability in Translation Studies in a Social and Human-Centered AI era".
Submissions via EasyChair: shorturl.at/hRCly
Submission guidelines: iatis.org/index.php/it...
www.iatis.org/index.php/8t...
Submissions via EasyChair: shorturl.at/hRCly
Submission guidelines: iatis.org/index.php/it...
www.iatis.org/index.php/8t...
Log in to EasyChair for 8IATIS
shorturl.at
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Join our panel on IATIS 12 Dec. 10-12, 2025: "Advancing sustainability in Translation Studies in a Social and Human-Centered AI era".
Submissions via EasyChair: shorturl.at/hRCly
Submission guidelines: iatis.org/index.php/it...
www.iatis.org/index.php/8t...
Submissions via EasyChair: shorturl.at/hRCly
Submission guidelines: iatis.org/index.php/it...
www.iatis.org/index.php/8t...
On Friday, I went to Donostia with Antoni Oliver and Bojana Mikelenic invited by German Rigau and @eagirre.bsky.social @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social to conduct a seminar on MT. It was an intense and wonderful experience.
January 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
On Friday, I went to Donostia with Antoni Oliver and Bojana Mikelenic invited by German Rigau and @eagirre.bsky.social @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social to conduct a seminar on MT. It was an intense and wonderful experience.
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Call for abstracts & papers: Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation - LANS-TTS issue 25, publication year 2026
Guest Editors:
Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University)
Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University)
lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...
Guest Editors:
Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University)
Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University)
lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...
January 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Call for abstracts & papers: Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation - LANS-TTS issue 25, publication year 2026
Guest Editors:
Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University)
Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University)
lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...
Guest Editors:
Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University)
Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University)
lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...
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El nostre col·laborador @natxosorolla.bsky.social participa en aquest llibre amb un capítol sobre llengües mitjanes minoritzades i sistemes d’avaluació de revistes acadèmiques.
@jsolerc.bsky.social @mariasabatedalmau.bsky.social
Pròximament!
www.routledge.com/Language-and...
@jsolerc.bsky.social @mariasabatedalmau.bsky.social
Pròximament!
www.routledge.com/Language-and...
Language and the Knowledge Economy: Multilingual Scholarly Publishing in Europe
This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and the knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens...
www.routledge.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
El nostre col·laborador @natxosorolla.bsky.social participa en aquest llibre amb un capítol sobre llengües mitjanes minoritzades i sistemes d’avaluació de revistes acadèmiques.
@jsolerc.bsky.social @mariasabatedalmau.bsky.social
Pròximament!
www.routledge.com/Language-and...
@jsolerc.bsky.social @mariasabatedalmau.bsky.social
Pròximament!
www.routledge.com/Language-and...
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Call for papers:
Conference theme: Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing
University of Granada, Spain
24-25 June 2025
(Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025)
sites.google.com/view/humans-...
Conference theme: Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing
University of Granada, Spain
24-25 June 2025
(Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025)
sites.google.com/view/humans-...
Humans, Machines, Language - 2025 conference
Plenary speakers
sites.google.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Call for papers:
Conference theme: Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing
University of Granada, Spain
24-25 June 2025
(Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025)
sites.google.com/view/humans-...
Conference theme: Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing
University of Granada, Spain
24-25 June 2025
(Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025)
sites.google.com/view/humans-...
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Study: English is replacing native languages at Finnish universities
Nearly 90 percent of Finland's doctoral dissertations are written in English, the study found.
yle.fi/a/74-20136342
via @yle.naamio.social
#Finland #langsky
Nearly 90 percent of Finland's doctoral dissertations are written in English, the study found.
yle.fi/a/74-20136342
via @yle.naamio.social
#Finland #langsky
Study: English is replacing native languages at Finnish universities
Nearly 90 percent of Finland's doctoral dissertations are written in English, the study found.
yle.fi
January 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Study: English is replacing native languages at Finnish universities
Nearly 90 percent of Finland's doctoral dissertations are written in English, the study found.
yle.fi/a/74-20136342
via @yle.naamio.social
#Finland #langsky
Nearly 90 percent of Finland's doctoral dissertations are written in English, the study found.
yle.fi/a/74-20136342
via @yle.naamio.social
#Finland #langsky
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The Green AI project at University of A Coruña (Spain) has a PhD position open! Your work will be on efficient NLP. Contact me if interested!
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Green AI project at University of A Coruña (Spain) has a PhD position open! Your work will be on efficient NLP. Contact me if interested!
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I was worried about something like this but didn’t think about how medical would be one of the more susceptible target domains arstechnica.com/science/2025...
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate.
arstechnica.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I was worried about something like this but didn’t think about how medical would be one of the more susceptible target domains arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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And time is money!
Just sayin’…
Just sayin’…
And here's another reason to hire professional translators!
Recent research shows that low-quality translations, those with errors, lead to longer reading times (i.e., waste readers’ time) compared to high-quality translations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Recent research shows that low-quality translations, those with errors, lead to longer reading times (i.e., waste readers’ time) compared to high-quality translations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Readers have to work harder to understand a badly translated text: an eye-tracking study into the effects of translation errors
Texts are translated to be read and provide access to otherwise inaccessible information or experiences. Scant empirical interest in how translations are read and received by readers is surprising ...
www.tandfonline.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And time is money!
Just sayin’…
Just sayin’…
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📢 New article out in the latest issue of @revtradumatica.bsky.social on #HCI in Translation and Interpreting:
"Measured and Perceived Effort: Assessing Three Literary Translation Workflows": https://revistes.uab.cat/tradumatica/article/view/n22-ruffo-daems-macken
#xl8 #literarytranslation #MTPE
"Measured and Perceived Effort: Assessing Three Literary Translation Workflows": https://revistes.uab.cat/tradumatica/article/view/n22-ruffo-daems-macken
#xl8 #literarytranslation #MTPE
January 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📢 New article out in the latest issue of @revtradumatica.bsky.social on #HCI in Translation and Interpreting:
"Measured and Perceived Effort: Assessing Three Literary Translation Workflows": https://revistes.uab.cat/tradumatica/article/view/n22-ruffo-daems-macken
#xl8 #literarytranslation #MTPE
"Measured and Perceived Effort: Assessing Three Literary Translation Workflows": https://revistes.uab.cat/tradumatica/article/view/n22-ruffo-daems-macken
#xl8 #literarytranslation #MTPE
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My latest paper is now out!
I use Heidegger's existential hermeneutics to explore the ontological relationships between translators and their equipment and environment and argue that translation can re-disclose the world, revealing it in new ways.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I use Heidegger's existential hermeneutics to explore the ontological relationships between translators and their equipment and environment and argue that translation can re-disclose the world, revealing it in new ways.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Translating with Heidegger: worldliness, disclosure and disruption
There is major interest in contemporary translation studies in relational approaches inspired by thinkers including Latour, Bourdieu, Derrida and Gadamer. These thinkers were heavily influenced by ...
www.tandfonline.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My latest paper is now out!
I use Heidegger's existential hermeneutics to explore the ontological relationships between translators and their equipment and environment and argue that translation can re-disclose the world, revealing it in new ways.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I use Heidegger's existential hermeneutics to explore the ontological relationships between translators and their equipment and environment and argue that translation can re-disclose the world, revealing it in new ways.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Opportunity alert! The project led by the wonderful Dr Sara Ramos Pinto with Dr Carol O'Sullivan 'From Lab to Screen: a response to AI’s threat to the media localisation industry' is seeking a research assistant for 6 months from March 2025:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Deadline to apply: 30 Jan
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Deadline to apply: 30 Jan
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Assistant in Impact Translation Project
Are you a PhD student or an early career researcher looking for a challenge? Do you have a background in subtitling, audiovisual translation or translation studies? Do you want to further your career ...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Opportunity alert! The project led by the wonderful Dr Sara Ramos Pinto with Dr Carol O'Sullivan 'From Lab to Screen: a response to AI’s threat to the media localisation industry' is seeking a research assistant for 6 months from March 2025:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Deadline to apply: 30 Jan
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Deadline to apply: 30 Jan
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Gemini is pulling information from a site called “idea wiki” where people just put random ideas for movies. Passing it off as fact.
I was excited to tell my kids that there's a sequel to Encanto, only to scroll down and learn that Google's AI just completely made this up
December 29, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Gemini is pulling information from a site called “idea wiki” where people just put random ideas for movies. Passing it off as fact.
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Doctoral Researcher position in Tampere: intersemiotic translation in digital cultures (see link below). Includes a group of fantastic colleagues!
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Doctoral Researcher (Intersemiotic Translation in Digital Cultures) / Väitöskirjatutkija (Intersemioottinen kääntäminen digitaalisissa ympäristöissä)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
December 26, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Doctoral Researcher position in Tampere: intersemiotic translation in digital cultures (see link below). Includes a group of fantastic colleagues!
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...