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Letter to The Times 👇

This week on Sinica Podcast, Kaiser Kuo chats with Yiqing Xu about his work in applying modern methods in political science to the politics of contemporary China. supchina.com/podcast/a-data…

New (to me) dimension of crowdwork platforms: Russian military uses Premise microtasking platform to aim and calibrate fire during their invasion of Ukraine. Example tasks are to locate ports, medical facilities, bridges, explosion craters. Paying ¢0.25 to $3.25 a task.

Happy to be presenting my work at the #TRICKLET2022 conference this Thursday! The first talk of the first session :)

"At UN Geneva, in the past year, some 60% of interpreters have reported suffering tinnitus, hyperacusis, pain in the ear...after interpreting via RSI platforms." 🥺Why remote interpretation doesn’t work for interpreters | UN Today untoday.org/why-remote-int…

Super excited 🎉 to see this paper with volume and issue number! And super cognizant 👀 of pronoun usage these days. Never been so affected by research findings, LOL 😂 Many thanks to ⁦Sona Golder⁩ for making this paper happen! ⁦UT Government⁩ cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Too many studies that apply machine learning to science & medicine employ incorrect methodologies. Many make very basic mistakes, such as not having separate training & test sets, using the test set (not a separate validation set) for feature selection, hyperparameter tuning, etc

If I look by gender, there's a really striking difference: our entering class was 48% women, but all 6 of the people who are currently PI's are male.

New Interpreting / Journal of Interpreting Studies "Speaking in the first-person singular or plural: A multifactorial, speech corpus-based analysis of institutional interpreters" by Nannan Liu doi.org/10.1075/intp.0… #1nt #TranslationStudies #CorpusStudy @johnbenjamins Nannan Liu

New Interpreting / Journal of Interpreting Studies Book review: "Review of Albl-Mikasa & Tiselius (2022): The Routledge handbook of conference interpreting" by Robin Setton doi.org/10.1075/intp.0… #1nt #TranslationStudies @johnbenjamins Elisabet Tiselius

Registration now open! 3rd HKBU International Conference on Interpreting (8-9 Dec 2022) & Pre-conference Workshop on RSI Solutions (16:00-18:30, 7 Dec 2022 [UTC+8]) Registration: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/interpreting_c… Details: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/interpreting_c… #hkbuinterpretingconference #RSI #1nt #CAI

ONLINE Translation Seminar (Dec 2023): "Artificial Communication: AI and Interpreting" Prof. Robin Setton (Interpreting Studies Scholar, France) 7 Dec 2023 (Thu), 5-7PM (UTC+8) Registration (free): hkbu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #centrefortranslation #interpretingstudies