CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
FRIDAY, 15 MARCH 2024
09:30 - 10:00 - Registration & Welcome coffee
Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea Street (Popovici Room, ground floor)
10:00 - 10:15 - Opening ceremony
Event moderators:
Daniela BADEA, Outreach Officer, Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission
Associate Professor Renata GEORGESCU, Head of the Department of Applied Modern Languages, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Assistant Lecturer Andreea-Maria SĂRMAȘIU, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
(Online/Zoom and Popovici Room, ground floor)
10:15 - 11:30 - Plenary session (in English)
Moderators: Daniela BADEA, Outreach Officer, Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission and Assistant Lecturer Andreea-Maria SĂRMAȘIU, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University
(Online/Zoom and Popovici Room, ground floor)
Professor Dragoș CIOBANU, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna
"Curioser and curioser!" Still wrapping our heads around machine translation after decades of research and use
11:30 - 12:00 - Coffee break (Popovici Room, ground floor)
12:00 - 13:00 - WORKSHOP 1
The practices and challenges of post-editing machine translation at the European Parliament
(Popovici Room, ground floor)
Organiser: Dr. Luciana Sabina TCACIUC, Translator, Romanian language Unit of the Directorate General for Translation, European Parliament (Luxembourg)
13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch (The Library of Letters - The Romanian - Hungarian Department, 1st floor)
14:30 - 15:30 - WORKSHOP 2
Post-editing MT@DGT – challenges and practical approaches
(L1 Room, 2nd floor)
Organiser: Nadia FARCAȘ, Quality Officer of the Romanian Language Department in DGT, European Commission (Luxembourg)
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break (Popovici Room, ground floor)
16:00 - 17:00 - WORKSHOP 3
The Limitations of GenAI, and MTPE while producing Romanian versions of the CJEU decisions drafted in French – translation workshop
(L1 Room, 2nd floor)
Organiser: Veronica DURBACĂ, Lawyer-linguist with the Romanian Translation Unit, Directorate-General for Multilingualism of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg)