Print Programme

Conference Programme

Wednesday, October 29

Pre-Conference Workshops

Thursday, October 30

Time
09:30 – 11:00	Opening Chairperson: Yves Gambier, University of Turku, Finland Brij Kothari, Indian Institute of Management, India Let a Billion Readers Bloom: The Power of Bollywood Karaoke Alex Varley, Media Access Australia, Australia New World Order… Exploiting the Global Media Empire to Expand Disabled Access
11:00 – 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15	Live Subtitling Chairperson: Beatrice Caruso, SWISS TXT, Switzerland Saveria Arma, University of Naples Federico II / University of Bologna, High School for Interpreters and Translators, Italy TV Respeaking-Based Subtitling: Quality and Quantity at the Cutting Edge Tijs Delbeke, University of Antwerp, Belgium Live Subtitling with Speech Recognition. An Analysis of Text Reduction Pablo Romero Fresco, Roehampton University, UK How to Wreck a Nice Beach ... Fast: Edited vs Verbatim Respeaking Pierre Dumouchel, CRIM, Canada Respeaking Experience for Real-Time Closed-Captioning of TV Broadcasts			Literacy Chairperson: Aline Remael, University College Antwerp, Belgium Noa Talaván, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain Subtitles and Literacy: Can Subtitling Be Applied to Foreign Language Education? Soledad Zárate, Imperial College London, UK Literacy Skills for Deaf Children Jorge García, Gizer.net & Andoni Eguíluz, Gizer.net & University of Deusto, Spain ACCE Project, Technology for the Creation and Use of Audiovisual Content in Language Learning
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00	Live Subtitling Panel The Challenges of Subtitling Live Television Events: Solutions and Frustrations Chairperson: James Gardner, Independent Media Support (IMS) Group, UK Andrew Lambourne, SysMedia, UK Christiane Müller, ZDF, Germany Thijs de Korte, Technicolor, The Netherlands		Language Challenges Chairperson: Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Imperial College London, UK Christina Witting Estrup & Amalie Foss, Denmark Less is More - Why Condensation Matters Jenny Mattsson, Gothenburg University, Sweden Well and you know in Subtitling: May Omission of Discourse Particles in Film Subtitling Exclude Viewers from Central Aspects of a Film? Kristijan Nikolic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Identity of Croatian as a Language in Subtitling		Mediascape / A Cross-Section Chairperson: Yves Gambier, University of Turku, Finland Tiejun Gu, Communication University of China, China A Brief Introduction to the Dubbing and Subtitling Trade in China Muhammad Y Gamal, University of New South Wales, Australia Audiovisual Translation in the Arab World v.02 Renata Mliczak, UK & Agnieszka Szarkowska, University of Warsaw, Poland Accessibility of Audiovisual Translation in Poland
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	Panel: The UK’s Experience of High Levels of Access Regulation Chairperson: David Padmore, Red Bee Media, UK Wilf White, Head of External Policy for the BBC Chris Higgs, Managing Director, ITFC Dick Bates, RNID Media Access Group
18:00	Drinks Reception

Friday, October 31

Time
09:30 – 11:00	Panel: Achieving Accessibility – Challenges for Broadcasters Chairperson: Mary Carroll, Titelbild Subtitling and Translation GmbH, Germany Panellists will include: Isabel Charleton, Radio Telefís Éireann, Ireland Gion Linder, SWISS TXT, Switzerland Mark Harrison, MTV, UK Izabela Künstler, Telewizja Polska, Poland Pere Vila, CCMA, Televisio de Catalunya, Spain
11:00 – 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15	Tools Chairperson: Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Imperial College London, UK Martin Volk, Universität Zürich, Institut für Computerlinguistik, Switzerland The Automatic Translation of Film Subtitles. A Machine Translation Success Story? Maria Kasandrinou, Milton Bayer Communications Ltd., UK A Translation Tool with a Difference Russ Wood, Softel, UK Where Have All The Tapes Gone? Mike Wald, University of Southampton, UK Using Speech Recognition Captioning to Enhance Multimedia Learning	Audio Description Chairperson: Bernd Benecke, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Germany Sabine Braun, University of Surrey, UK & Pilar Orero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Audiodescription with Audiosubtitling - An Emergent Modality of Audiovisual Localisation Cristóbal Cabeza Cáceres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Using Commercial Tools at University: Training and Research in Audio Description Aline Remael & Gert Vercauteren, University College Antwerp, Belgium Translating AD from English into Dutch: A Case Study Juan José Martínez-Sierra, University of Murcia, Spain The Audio Description of Humour
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00	New Formats and Platforms Chairperson: Mary Carroll, Titelbild Subtitling and Translation GmbH, Germany Carmen Mangiron, Dublin City University, Ireland Cultural Localisation in Video Games Lucy Amórtegui, Red Bee Media, UK Reutilization of Language Assets Across Multiple Platforms Sharyn Hopkins, SDI Media Group, UK Online Video: Moderate, Translate, Participate	Subtitling / Reception Chairperson: Yves Gambier, University of Turku, Finland Federico Spoletti, Sub-Ti Ltd, UK Subtitling for International Film Festivals Verónica Arnáiz Uzquiza & Anjana Martínez Tejerina, Grup de Recerca TransMedia Catalonia, Spain Twofold Approaches on SDH Research: From Personal Information to Scientific Tools Loukia Kostopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Loss or Creativity in Film Subtitling: The Case of Audiovisual Humour
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	Achieving Quality Chairperson: Corinne Imhauser, ISTI-HEB, Belgium Ruth Griffiths, UK Global Business – Local Access. Good-bye Quality? Estelle Renard & Florence Curet, ATAA, France The Translator’s Point of View: Good-bye Quality, Hello Quality! Jan Pedersen, Stockholm University, Sweden A & B – Successful Collaboration Between Academia and Business Elena Di Giovanni, University of Macerata, Italy Audiovisual Translators’ Training and the Quest for Quality	Dubbing Chairperson: Frederic Chaume, Universitat Jaume I, Spain José Luis Martí Ferriol, Universitat Jaume I, Spain Automation Tools Available for Audiovisual Translation: The Case of Dubbing Samuel Julien, Dizale, France « REACHING THE HOLY GRAIL OF DUBBING » Quality of Dubbing: A Major Issue for Minority Languages ? Anna Matamala, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Language Quality in Dubbing: A Comparison of Spontaneous Colloquial Language in Dubbed and Original Sitcoms Francesca Caracciolo, Università Cattolica of Milan, Italy Analysis of a Case Study: The Dubbed Version of Roberto Benigni’s Film “Pinocchio” in the United States
18:00 – 18:15	Closing

Please note that the programme is subject to change.