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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to announce my new book Translating Tourism (Routledge), co-authored with Cinzia Spinzi 🌍✈️

The book explores how tourism discourse is translated, adapted, and mediated.

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Translating Tourism

This engaging textbook provides an in-depth examination of tourist discourse and communication and a guide to translating tourism texts. Through analysis of the linguistic, intercultural, and sociall...

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · 18d

That’s me in Turin at the 32nd AIA conference, speaking of digital tourism

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 11

Not at all. This is an oversimplification of ‘interpret’, which, following your and CED definitions, seems a synonym of explain. Interpretation requires contextualization, understanding of intent, and value judgment. The latter can’t be done by AI, which cannot tell what is right or wrong.

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 11

AI can certainly explain, but not interpret, in the sense of assigning a meaning to something, which is always relative, because AI does not know what is right or what is wrong, does not have feelings or positions. In this discussion, what is missing is the definition of interpretation.

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 10

I enjoyed the first part of the talk. I do not really agree with the final part, when you said that AI is good for interpretation. I think this clashes with the fact that AI is stochastic. But l your talk can be the very much needed starting point for further discussion & research about this

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 8

Guess what
#UAB #barcelona
#genderandtranslation
#internationalconference

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 8

Guess what
#UAB #barcelona
#genderandtranslation
#internationalconference

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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · Jul 4

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

www.cambridge.org

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 4

Still buzzing after an amazing #CL2025 conference. Great research, great people, great chats. Thanks @robbielove.org and all the organisers for making it happen!

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 3

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

Corpus Linguistics 2025

Presentation slides and reproduction materials for CL 2025 presentation “Finding structure in multivariate data” Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 3

Me (again) explaining how gender neutrality can be realized in grammatical-gendered languages
#CL2025

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 3

That’s me, speaking about Climate Change
#CL2025

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 3

So sorry to say goodbye!
#CL2025

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 3

Ready, set, go!
Pascual’s promising talk is live now!
#CL2025

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 2

I was looking forward to this presentation!
#CL2025

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 2

What counts? An inspiring talk about the wonder of numbers by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social
#CL2025

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oh gosh! Sorry!!!

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 2

Come and visit me in Pittsburgh, Zsófia!

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 1

Ladies and gentlemen,
I’m a Fullbrighter!
CANNOT BELIEVE MY EYES
🤩🤩🤩

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 1

“Any corpus is like the Emerald City - you need to go inside & poke around a bit” 🏰 In her plenary @cl2025.co.uk @hankslizzy.bsky.social takes us along the yellow brick road to LANA-CASE, tackling representativeness: what (register), who (demographics), and how (authenticity) 📚🎓 #cl2025

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Jun 30

This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 1

Even the stairs are beautiful!
#CL2025

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · Jul 1

Simply super talk by @hankslizzy.bsky.social #CL2025 taking us on a journey on the yellow brick road of corpus creation and representativeness by means of a reflection on prototypicality

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 1

Impossible to get lost😊
#CL2025

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jun 30

The concorDANCE at #CL2025!!!

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