Midsize project-grant awarded for `Lost Without Translation'

We are pleased to announce that Katrin Schulz (ILLC) together with Saurabh Khanna (FMG), Olga Eisele (FMG) and Paula Helm (FGw) has been awarded a midsize grant from the UvA IP theme Fair and Resilient Societies, to work on the project Lost Without Translation: Estimation and Implications of Invisible Languages on the Internet. The goal of the project is to understand and expose language invisibility. To this purpose they will run a case study on the use of automatic translation in immigration and aslyum processes.