ICoLS programme  2025

THURSDAY 3 July 2025

19.30 Social dinner at CASA LEEDS

FRIDAY 4 July 2025

9.00-10.30 OPENING by Carlo EUGENI & Elena DAVITTI

HUMAN-ASSISTED AND FULLY AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS
Chairperson: Emmanouela PATINIOTAKI

  • Klara CEBERIO, Elizabete MANTEROLA, Zuriñe SANZ, Ana TAMAYO & Naroa ZUBILLAGA (University of the Basque Country) – Assessment of human and (semi)automated workflows in interlingual subtitling from Spanish into Basque.
  • Martina PUCCI (Ca’ Foscari University), Giulia BENCINI (University of Bologna) – Using ASR-generated captions in higher education: the importance of providing accurate and reliable transcriptions to L2 speakers of English to support speech processing and access to information.
  • Antonia MELE SCORCIA (independent researcher) – Revolutionizing accessibility: AI’s role in interlingual live captioning and the future of interpretation.

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 COMPUTER ASSISTED WORKFLOWS
Chairperson: Judith PLATTER

  • Bedoor AL FALEH, Aiman AL OWAISI (University of Leeds) – Optimising speech-to-text interpreting for religious sermons.
  • Luz BELENGUER-CORTÉS (University Jaume I) – Half-baked ideas of live subtitling in cooking shows: a case study
  • Ursula STACHL-PEIER & Maria Bernadette ZWISCHENBERGER (University of Vienna) – (Non)human Speech-to-text Interpreting: aligning the needs of interpreters and users in shaping the profession.
  • Daniela EICHEMYER-HELL (University of Vienna) – Would a rose by another name really smell as sweet? Why terminology is so important for our profession(s).

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.45 Challenges and Opportunities in AI-Powered Live Broadcast Subtitling
Chairperson: Pilar ORERO

with Marion MCGILLIVRAY (ITV), Mirko LORENZ (Deutsche Welle), Albert GYURICA (RTVS), Francesc MAS (CCMA), Callum HUSSEY & Charlotte PARASHCHAK (SKY)

15.45-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-17.00 CLOSING REMARKS by Carlo EUGENI & Elena DAVITTI                 

18:30 Chill-out at OLD BAR