Stavroula Sokoli

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Audiovisual translation theory, practice & research
#AVT #MediaLocalization #subtitling #TranslationStudies
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Lost the first game of #Pandemic. We were so close!
Me: I'll use a smaller box for the socks waiting to be paired so that Psomoula doesn't sleep in my socks.
Psomoula:
#SocratesTheCat celebrating Christmas 🎄

A suggestion: Every scientific article (that is published in open access) should have an abstract for nonspecialists.

Making publications accessible is an important first step, but the second step seems just as important to me: making the content comprehensible.

This suggestion is inspired by an article I read. The topic was interesting and not overly complicated, but the wording was fairly opaque (I was only able to understand it as it was not too far from my own area of expertise).

Power cut means I can't work so I'll just hang around here. Or call a friend, actually.
Concordance gets a boost from ChatGPT

We recently integrated ChatGPT, a new and incredibly impressive artificial intelligence, as a new feature in the Catittude’s Concordance function. This allows users to define a context domain for each client, which ChatGPT then uses to provide the exact meaning of a selected word or sentence in that specific context....

Cattitude Blog

So cool when subtitlers get these working conditions - and free time to write about the experience
@subtitlers

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/what-i-learned-translating-decision-to-leave

What I Learned Translating "Decision to Leave"

What was involved in, and the insights gained from, creating the English subtitles for Park Chan-wook's romantic mystery.

MUBI
One day they'll be saying "Look at how big computers used to by back in 2022!"
#MeluXina #NMT
https://luxprovide.lu/2021/03/22/construction-process-of-meluxina/

Recent developments are a great reminder that #socialmedia are not public services. They are privately owned and their owners have the liberty to make decisions affecting all users.

I used to forget about that and use them as if they were open fields, until I was reminded that all the little houses I've been building on them can be wiped down by the owner.

(in my case "little houses" are notes taken at conferences, thoughts and ideas about my academic interests)

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodon-twitter-account-over-elonjet-tracking/

TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

In Spanish, I'm more musical. Goodbye, economics! And marriage!
#chatGTP