Silvia Hansen‐Schirra
Biographic Data
| ID | 6545715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Hansen‐Schirra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen‐Schirra |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIRRA S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3277-7717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Enabling text comprehensibility assessment for people with intellectual disabilities using a mobile application
In research on Easy Language and automatic text simplification, it is imperative to evaluate the comprehensibility of texts by presenting them to target users and assessing their level of comprehension. Target readers often include people with intellectual or other disabilities, which renders conducting experiments more challenging and time-consuming. In this paper, we introduce Okra , an openly available touchscreen-based application to facilita…
Neuroscientific Research on the Processing of Easy Language
In an increasingly networked world, people who cannot participate in written communication are particularly at risk of social exclusion. Like other concepts of barrier-free communication, Easy Language (“Leichte Sprache”) attempts to enhance perceptibility and comprehensibility of texts for people with reading impairments by means of a rule-based reduction of complexity on the text side. The underlying assumption of simplified languages is that t…
Translation
Eye-tracking revision processes of translation students and professional translators
Great effort has been made to define and to measure revision competence in translation. However, combined eye tracking and keylogging have hardly been applied in revision research. We believe it is time to apply these methods to the investigation of revision for further insights into this phase of the translation process. In an eyetracking and keylogging study, we compare translation students to professional translators who revised six English-Ge…
The Translation and Interpreting Competence Questionnaire
Despite the growth of research on translation and interpreting, measures of competence in such activities typically stem from informal, non-validated instruments. This scenario casts doubts on the ensuing findings and hinders comparability across studies. To address the issue, we introduce the Translation and Interpreting Competence Questionnaire (TICQ), an online tool for collecting relevant quantitative and qualitative data. The instrument comp…
Cross-Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations
This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, the contributors implement an empirical research strategy with further applications in computational linguistics and language technology.
The Translation and Interpreting Competence Questionnaire
Despite the growth of research on translation and interpreting, measures of competence in such activities typically stem from informal, non-validated instruments. This scenario casts doubts on the ensuing findings and hinders comparability across studies. To address the issue, we introduce the Translation and Interpreting Competence Questionnaire (TICQ), an online tool for collecting relevant quantitative and qualitative data. The instrument comp…
Cross-Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations
This book is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and - more generally - to language comparison and language contact with a focus on English and German. Methodologically, the contributors implement an empirical research strategy with further applications in computational linguistics and language technology.
Eye-tracking revision processes of translation students and professional translators
Great effort has been made to define and to measure revision competence in translation. However, combined eye tracking and keylogging have hardly been applied in revision research. We believe it is time to apply these methods to the investigation of revision for further insights into this phase of the translation process. In an eyetracking and keylogging study, we compare translation students to professional translators who revised six English-Ge…
The Translation and Interpreting Competence Questionnaire
Despite the growth of research on translation and interpreting, measures of competence in such activities typically stem from informal, non-validated instruments. This scenario casts doubts on the ensuing findings and hinders comparability across studies. To address the issue, we introduce the Translation and Interpreting Competence Questionnaire (TICQ), an online tool for collecting relevant quantitative and qualitative data. The instrument comp…
Translation
Neuroscientific Research on the Processing of Easy Language
In an increasingly networked world, people who cannot participate in written communication are particularly at risk of social exclusion. Like other concepts of barrier-free communication, Easy Language (“Leichte Sprache”) attempts to enhance perceptibility and comprehensibility of texts for people with reading impairments by means of a rule-based reduction of complexity on the text side. The underlying assumption of simplified languages is that t…
Enabling text comprehensibility assessment for people with intellectual disabilities using a mobile application
In research on Easy Language and automatic text simplification, it is imperative to evaluate the comprehensibility of texts by presenting them to target users and assessing their level of comprehension. Target readers often include people with intellectual or other disabilities, which renders conducting experiments more challenging and time-consuming. In this paper, we introduce Okra , an openly available touchscreen-based application to facilita…
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Competence (human resources (2 works) · Comprehension (2 works)