Research

The department, ASTT, is actively involved in a variety of research projects. The main research focuses on various technological developments in the field of translation and interpreting studies as well as on their impact on translation processes:

Machine translation
Technical communication and translation
Quality and risk management in translation
Usability engineering of translation technology
Historical linguistics and language policy
and many more

Publications

The department’s staff members publish research articles as well as a multitude of theses regarding those topics.

Staff members of ASTT attend relevant events and conferences on the topics mentioned above.

Projects

The department is partly involved in two research projects:

Project about linguistically intelligent software systems for language and translation didactics (LISST/LISTiG) promoted by the German-Polish Science Foundation (DPWS) in cooperation with the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Society for the Promotion of Applied Information Sciences (IAI) in Saarbrücken
Project "TIGES T&I Graduate Employability Strategies in the 21st Century (TIGES 21)", CIUTI working group; in cooperation with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, and the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia