TY - JOUR
T1 - Machine Translation Discussed With Young People
AU - Torres-Hostench, Olga
AU - Aguilar-Amat, Anna
AU - Cid-Leal, Pilar
N1 - Funding Information:
In this year’s Fair, participants totaled 880 students from ESO (Obligatory Secondary Education) and baccalaureate levels, ranging in age from 15 to 18 years. Sixty-four teachers from 20 different educational centers also attended. Those who attended visited 12 different stands on health sciences, genetics, neurobiotechnology, radiology, pharmacology, chemistry, photonic sciences, linguistics, archaeology, climate science, and environmental monitoring. Another stand presented the winners of the Secondary School Research Program 2014-2015 sponsored by the Scientific Park of Barcelona and the Catalonia-La Pedrera Foundation. In total, there were 86 researchers.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España. Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad (Grant Number FFI2013-46041-R).
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© The Author(s) 2015.
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Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - The aim of the Fira de Recerca en Directe 2015 (Live Research Fair) held at the Barcelona science museum CosmoCaixa is to encourage young people in our country to take up scientific careers. At each stand, students were presented with a scientific enigma and were encouraged to find the answer to it through conversations with researchers and through experiments using laboratory equipment. At the Tradumàtica Research Group’s stand, we presented research we have been carrying out in Machine Translation (MT) and MT postediting. Traditionally, scientific outreach programs have a unidirectional format from researchers to the citizenry. However, our experiences at the Fair on the perception young people have of MT clearly show a bidirectional interaction between researchers and the young people, and this experience helped us come up with ideas to improve our research.
AB - The aim of the Fira de Recerca en Directe 2015 (Live Research Fair) held at the Barcelona science museum CosmoCaixa is to encourage young people in our country to take up scientific careers. At each stand, students were presented with a scientific enigma and were encouraged to find the answer to it through conversations with researchers and through experiments using laboratory equipment. At the Tradumàtica Research Group’s stand, we presented research we have been carrying out in Machine Translation (MT) and MT postediting. Traditionally, scientific outreach programs have a unidirectional format from researchers to the citizenry. However, our experiences at the Fair on the perception young people have of MT clearly show a bidirectional interaction between researchers and the young people, and this experience helped us come up with ideas to improve our research.
KW - machine translation postediting
KW - science communication
KW - scientific career
KW - statistical machine translation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84946143630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547015610126
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547015610126
M3 - Article
VL - 37
SP - 795
EP - 804
JO - Science Communication
JF - Science Communication
SN - 1075-5470
IS - 6
ER -