Biographies
Tiina Tuominen is an acting Professor of English with a specialisation in translation at the University of Turku, Finland. She has previously worked as a developer of subtitling and translation for the Finnish public broadcaster Yle, as a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and in various roles at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her research focuses on subtitling, particularly reception, user-centered translation, translators’ workplace studies, and multimodality. She has worked as a translator and subtitler for several years.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0665-6970
E-mail: tiina.k.tuominen@utu.fi
Maarit Koponen currently works as Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. She has previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki and as a lecturer at the University of Turku. She obtained her PhD in Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on the use of machine translation and other translation technologies, machine translation post-editing and quality evaluation. She has also worked as a professional translator for several years.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6123-5386
E-mail: maarit.koponen@uef.fi
Kaisa Vitikainen works as a live subtitler at the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle. They are also a doctoral student of Language Studies at the University of Helsinki. Their research focuses on the application of automatic speech recognition in intralingual subtitling.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2067-3969
E-mail: kaisa.vitikainen@yle.fi
Umut Sulubacak is a former doctoral student in the Language Technology research group at the University of Helsinki. His research focused on the development of machine translation systems optimised for the translation of media subtitles. Previously, he has also published on computational morphology and syntax, and contributed to the creation of several treebanks.
Jörg Tiedemann is Professor of Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. He received his PhD in computational linguistics for work on bitext alignment and machine translation from Uppsala University before moving to the University of Groningen for 5 years of post-doctoral research on question answering and information extraction. His main research interests are connected with machine translation, massively multilingual data sets and data-driven natural language processing and he currently runs an ERC-funded project on representation learning and natural language understanding.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3065-7989
E-mail: jorg.tiedemann@helsinki.fi