University of Vienna
Zentrum für Translationswissenschaften
Since the transition to its own translation program in 2015, machine translation on the social network Facebook has been an omnipresent feature for the 1.52 billion users. By experimenting with new techniques and using a CNN... more
As videogames are set to become the dominant pop-cultural medium of the 21st century, this paper aims to provide approaches to a critical reading of Bethesda’s Fallout 4, informed by perspectives of cultural studies. Tracing arguments... more
The following is a case study of manual annotation as used in a large-scale variationist linguist project focusing of spoken varieties of German in Austria. It showcases the technical architecture used for annotation, which unifies... more
Abstract: Due to a concatenation of events, such as becoming member of World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 and holding the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, as well as the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, China was suddenly thrust into the... more
The aim of this master's thesis is to provide a useful contribution to dialogue interpreting didactics. At present, the didactics in this field frequently follows the firm principle of neutrality and rigid turn taking patterns.... more
During the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns, there was an observable increase in social and political attention paid to gender-based violence in our national context. This, in turn, has highlighted the... more
- by Katia Iacono