Translation Technology in Accessible Health Communication

About Mark SeligmanMeng JiPierrette Bouillon

Meng Ji is an Associate Professor of Translation Studies at The University of Sydney where she specializes in empirical translation studies and multilingual communications. She received the first PhD in Translation Studies from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine and has worked in London and Tokyo with competitive research fellowships from national research councils in the UK and Japan. The author and editor of more than two dozen books Dr. Ji has published extensively on environmental and health translation empirical multilingual translation methodologies people-centered translation quality assessment and inclusive translation services and technologies. Pierrette Bouillon is a Professor and Dean at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting University of Geneva Switzerland. She is the author of numerous publications in natural language processing particularly within speech-to-speech machine translation for medical domain and pre- and post-editing and more recently accessibility. She currently co-leads the Swiss Research Centre Barrier-Free Communication with Zurich University of Applied Sciences and is the lead investigator of multiple projects of translation studies from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. Mark Seligman is the founder and President of Spoken Translation Inc. and the Chief Linguist of Speech Morphing Inc. Since the 1990s he has led the design testing and implementation of multiple speech translation systems for English Spanish Japanese French and German with research associations in the USA Japan and Europe and has contributed to artificial intelligence research and development since the 1980s. He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from University of California Berkeley in 1991.