Corpora and Translation Education Advances and Challenges

Dr. Jun Pan currently serves as President of the Hong Kong Translation Society. Apart from overseeing many relevant research projects, Dr. Pan has published two co-authored/edited volumes (one forthcoming), over 20 referred journal articles, nearly 10 book chapters and over 50 conference papers and invited talks relevant to corpora and translation education. Dr.Jun Pan has been working in the filed corpus-based translation and interpreting studies for years. A main aspect of Dr. Pan’s work focuses on the construction and study of large-size corpora/databases of interpreting, tapping into methods of text mining, natural language processing, critical discourse analysis, etc. Dr. Pan complied the Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus (CEPIC, https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cepic/), an open-access online corpus of interpreting in political settings consisting of nearly 6.5 million word tokens.

Prof. Sara Laviosa is Distinguished Scholar in the field of Corpus-basedTranslation Studies and TESOL. Her research interests and teaching experience focus on English language and translation, with courses offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Laviosa's expertise has been recognized by her nomination as a member of the European Society for Translation Committee. Her contributions to the field of translation and language studies are reflected in her numerous publications, including the highly regarded book Corpus-based Translation Studies: Research and Applications, which offers valuable insights for researchers and practitioners alike. Laviosa's book is an indispensable resource for those seeking to deepen their understanding of translation studies and the role of corpus-based research in this field.